Medicare and Medicaid
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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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The Use of Vendors in Medicare Part B Drug Payment
USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative experts provide an analysis of a voluntary vendor approach for Medicare to restrain drug spending for Part B drugs.
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Medicare Beneficiaries, Especially Unsubsidized Minorities, Struggle to Pay for Prescription Drugs: Results from the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey
This paper examines racial/ethnic disparity in prescription drug cost-coping behaviors in a nationally representative sample of Medicare beneficiaries.
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Rep. Ruiz’s Arbitration Proposal for Surprise Billing (H.R. 3502) Would Lead to Much Higher Costs and Deficits
USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative researchers review the latest proposed legislation from Representative Ruiz on surprise medical billing.
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We Need More Primary Care Physicians: Here’s Why and How
USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative researchers explain why we need more primary care physicians and how to close the gap between primary care and specialty medicine.
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