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Ending Drug Rebates will Increase Medicare Part D Premiums, but Most Seniors will be Insulated From It
Erin Trish and Dana Goldman argue eliminating drug rebates will increase the cost of Medicare Part D premiums, but most seniors will be not feel the effects. They say seniors should ignore pharmacy benefit managers’ alarm raised by the proposal.
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Seminar Series: Carrie Colla
Carrie Colla is a health economist and an associate professor at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice. Her presentation will be on “Learning for Medicare ACOs: Policy to Practice.”
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Improving The Medicare Physician Fee Schedule: Make It Part Of Value-Based Payment
To make greater strides towards value-based payment models in Medicare, Paul Ginsburg recommends that those who are testing alternative payment models at CMS should work directly with the team managing the existing fee-for-service payment system.
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Prior Hospitalization Burden and the Relatedness of 30-Day Readmissions in Patients Receiving Hemodialysis
High prior hospitalization burden increases the likelihood that patients receiving hemodialysis experience a 30-day readmission unrelated to the index hospitalization. Health care payers such as Medicare should consider incorporating clinical relatedness into 30-day readmission quality measures.
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The National Cost of Hospital-Acquired Pressure Injuries in the United States
US Hospital-acquired pressure injury costs could exceed $26.8 billion. HAPIs remain a concern with regard to hospital quality in addition to being a major source of economic burden on the US health care system. Hospitals should invest more in quality improvement of early detection and care for pressure injury to avoid higher costs.
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Reforming Stark/Anti-Kickback Policies
On January 30, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services Eric Hargan will visit Brookings to deliver remarks on reforming Stark/anti-kickback policies. After delivering his prepared remarks there will be a panel discussion including Kimberly Brandt from CMS.
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Characteristics of Physicians Excluded From US Medicare and State Public Insurance Programs for Fraud, Health Crimes, or Unlawful Prescribing of Controlled Substances
The number of physicians excluded from participation in Medicare and state public insurance reimbursement owing to fraud, waste, and abuse increased on average, 20 percent per year, between 2007 and 2017.
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Medicare Graduate Medical Education Funding is Not Addressing the Primary Care Shortage: We Need a Radically Different Approach
Schaeffer Initiative experts evaluate the impact of Medicare funding for hospitals, physicians and medical education on specialty selection by new doctors.
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23nd Annual Wall Street Comes to Washington Healthcare Roundtable
Paul Ginsburg will discuss what the latest market developments mean for national health policy and how federal policies may affect the outlook for healthcare companies with Wall Street analysts.
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CMS Administrator Seema Verma Discusses Prescription for Sustaining US Healthcare System at Schaeffer Initiative Event
CMS Administrator spoke at a USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative event in Washington, D.C., to discuss modernizing Medicare and how to protect patients from overpaying for prescription drugs.
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