Medicare and Medicaid
Our work in Medicare and Medicaid
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Budget Impact Analysis of a Pharmacist-Provided Transition of Care Program
Pharmacist-provided transition-of-care program shown to be cost-saving and reduced readmissions, according to the study.
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Medicare Advantage: Better Information Tools, Better Beneficiary Choices, Better Competition
Since the 1970s, and codified in the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982, Medicare beneficiaries have had the choice of receiving their Medicare benefits through private health plans instead of the traditional fee-for-service (FFS) Medicare program administered by the federal government. The policy thrust of private plan participation in Medicare is that competition […]
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Treatment-Specific Payment Approaches: The Case Of Macular Degeneration
Treatment for neovascular or wet age-related macular degeneration (nAMD) is an area where a change in Medicare Part B payment specific to this procedure has far more potential for substantial reductions in spending.
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Challenges and Opportunities in Health Care Reform: Balancing Costs, Coverage and Quality
Thursday | November 16, 2017
3:00 PM- 6:30 PM PT
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Switch and Save on Medicare Part D
Simply switching prescription drug plans could save seniors and the government billions.
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Using Self Reports or Claims to Assess Disease Prevalence
Patricia St. Clair and her colleagues assess prevalence of diabetes and heart attack in the US elderly population across the most well used data sources for estimation.
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Physician Reimbursement in Medicare Advantage Compared With Traditional Medicare and Commercial Health Insurance
Medicare Advantage physician payments roughly equal to traditional Medicare while rates for lab services and medical devices were lower and more akin to commercial rates, find Erin Trish and her colleagues.
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Medicare, Medicare Advantage Physician Reimbursement Rates Nearly Equal
USC researchers compare physician reimbursement by Medicare Advantage plans to traditional Medicare rates. Until now, experts knew little about the differences
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Effects of the More Austere Medicaid Per Capita Cap Included in the Senate’s Health Bill
Last month, we analyzed how states and the federal budget would have fared had a Medicaid per capita cap like the one envisioned in the House-passed American Health Care Act (AHCA) been implemented in the recent past. On June 22, the Senate released a “discussion draft” of their Affordable Care Act repeal bill: the Better […]
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Effects of Medicaid per Capita Cap Included in the House-Passed American Health Care Act
The American Health Care Act (AHCA), which was passed by the House of Representatives on May 4, would alter how the costs of state Medicaid programs are shared between the federal government and states. In “Effects of the Medicaid Per Capita Cap Included in the House-Passed American Health Care Act,” (PDF) Loren Adler, Matthew Fiedler, […]
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