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Louisiana’s Prescription Drug Experiment: A Model for the Nation?
On July 22, the USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy will hosted a conference on Louisiana’s subscription model to expand access to Hepatitis C treatment for the state’s incarcerated and Medicaid patients with the infection.
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Regression to the Mean in the Medicare Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program
Regression to the mean is a known statistical phenomenon. It occurs when an outcome is measured multiple times. Outcomes that are extreme relative to the statistical average, or mean, during the first measurement are more likely to be closer to the mean in subsequent measurement periods simply by chance, because more extreme values have a […]
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Untangling Differences in Quality of Care in Medicare Advantage Versus Traditional Medicare Programs
Neeraj Sood and a colleague discuss measuring and interpreting differences in quality of care for Medicare Advantage beneficiaries compared to those enrolled in traditional fee-for-service Medicare.
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Three Ways to Make Health Insurance Auto-Enrollment Work
Successful auto-enrollment likely requires changes to the way we determine eligibility for Medicaid and Marketplace financial assistance, to make the system easier to navigate and more generous, writes USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative Fellow Christen Linke Young.
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Universal Health Care: Exploring The Path Ahead
The current health care system is complex. Can lawmakers navigate the many roadblocks standing in the way of achieving health care for all? Professor Geoffrey Joyce will speak on this KPCC-FM-hosted panel.
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Hospital Productivity Trends: Implications for Medicare Payment Policy
On June 25, 2019, the USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy hosted a conference on hospital productivity trends and their implications for Medicare policy on hospital payment rate updates.
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Reverse Reference Pricing: Rewarding Patients For Reducing Medicare Costs
Neeraj Sood and Christopher Whaley write that it is time for Medicare to apply the lessons learned by private insurers to incentivize price shopping by patients.
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Paul Ginsburg Appointed Vice-Chair of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission
Paul Ginsburg has served on the committee, which is tasked with formulating recommendations to Congress on issues related to access, quality, and cost in Medicare, since 2016.
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Breaking Down The Bipartisan Senate Group’s New Proposal To Address Surprise Billing
Like other recent federal bills (and state laws), the bipartisan Senate legislation protects patients from surprise out-of-network bills through a “billing regulation” approach.
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Analyzing the House E&C Committee’s Bipartisan Surprise Out-Of-Network Billing Proposal
The Energy and Commerce draft would eliminate surprise out-of-network billing for both emergency and non-emergency services (with the notable exception of ambulance services) and across different sites of care (e.g., hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs), freestanding emergency departments).
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