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Who Pays in Medicare Part D? Giving Plans More Skin in the Game
Private plans have the potential to lead the way toward innovative contracting approaches that emphasize value and, in doing so, deliver on the original vision for the Part D marketplace.
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PODCAST: The Biggest Health Care Issues of the 2020 Election
In this episode of the Brookings Cafeteria podcast, health policy experts from the USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative discuss the presidential candidates’ health proposals, and also look at what to do about surprise medical billing.
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The Success of Medicare Advantage Makes it a Better Policy Choice than ‘Medicare for All’
This public-private partnership is delivering high-quality health care at comparatively low cost.
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Retroactive Enrollment: A Feasible Way to Bring Auto-Enrollment to the Individual Market
Helping people benefit from the programs for which they are eligible could have a significant impact on the share of Americans with health coverage, possibly making the idea of automatic enrollment into coverage attractive across the political spectrum.
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Understanding the Bipartisan Senate Finance Prescription Drug Reform Package
“USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative experts unpack the bipartisan Senate Finance prescription drug reform package.
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Trends in the Use of Skilled Nursing Facility and Home Health Care Under the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program: An Interrupted Time-series Analysis
Hospitals might be shifting to more intensive post-acute care to avoid readmissions among seniors with pneumonia. At the same time, penalized hospitals’ efforts to prevent readmissions may be keeping higher proportions of their patients in the community.
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Considerations For Expanding International Reference Pricing Beyond Medicare Part B
Experts lay out considerations for expanding the administration’s proposed model beyond Medicare Part B drugs.
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Longitudinal Analysis of Dementia Diagnosis and Specialty Care Among Racially Diverse Medicare Beneficiaries
The burden of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias is rapidly growing. Researchers found vast majority of dementia patients don’t receive specialty diagnosis and care.
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Using the Drug Pricing Netflix Model to Help States Tackle the Hep C Crisis
Researcher Neeraj Sood has explored innovative payment models as a strategy for government entities to be able to pay for lifesaving cures that could eradicate diseases like hepatitis C. Louisiana, with some input from Sood, has just implemented a modified version of a subscription model to pay for Hep C treatments.
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Is This the Healthcare Policy Both Republicans and Democrats Can Agree On?
A mix of universal catastrophic coverage and private insurers would be cheaper than Medicare for All, Dana Goldman wrote in MarketWatch.
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