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A Proposal to Enhance Competition and Reform Bidding in the Medicare Advantage Program
Schaeffer Initiative researchers propose two key changes to the MA bidding process to lower prices and enhance choice for consumers.
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Cost-Effectiveness of Multidisciplinary Care in Mild to Moderate Chronic Kidney Disease in the United States: A Modeling Study
Multidisciplinary care (MDC) programs have been proposed as a way to alleviate the cost and morbidity associated with chronic kidney disease (CKD) in the US. Schaeffer fellow Eugene Lin estimates that a Medicare-funded MDC program could improve health outcomes.
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Do States Regret Expanding Medicaid?
Mark Hall finds that across the political spectrum, states that expanded Medicaid do not regret that decision.
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Trends in Opioid Use and Prescribing in Medicare, 2006-2012
More than 1 in 3 beneficiaries filled an opioid prescription annually; about 1 in 10 were chronic opioid users.
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Congress Should Replace Medicare’s Merit-Based Incentive Payment System
Editor’s note: This piece was originally published at Health Affairs Blog on February 26, 2018. In 2015, Congress passed the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) on a strong bipartisan vote. In addition to repealing the Sustainable Growth Rate formula that was used to set the level of physician payment rates, MACRA changed the […]
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Patient Cost-Sharing for Prescription Drugs: Policy Issues
The USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy will host a conference on the policy issues surrounding patient drug cost sharing. Two panels will convene, first to discuss restructuring the Medicare Part D benefit design, and then to debate the effectiveness of mechanisms to reduce cost sharing for commercially insured patients.
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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.Â
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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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