Medicare and Medicaid
Our work in Medicare and Medicaid
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USC Research Shows Costco Beats Medicare in Generic Drug Savings Nearly 50% of the Time
Intermediaries negotiate good prices, but lack incentives to pass savings to beneficiaries and taxpayers.
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Access to the 340B Drug Pricing Program: Is There Evidence of Strategic Hospital Behavior?
Some hospitals adjust their measure that identifies hospitals that treat a disproportionate share of low-income patients to gain 340B eligibility.
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Assessing the Quality of SK&A’s Office-Based Physician Database for Identifying Oncologists
Schaeffer experts assess the quality of one of the most commonly used commercial databases, SK&A’s office-based physician database.
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Cost- Effectiveness of Total State Coverage for Hepatitis C Medications
A Medicaid-Medicare partnership could cover lifesaving hepatitis C medications — and still save $1 to $1.1 billion over 25 years.
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The Effects of Vertically Integrated Care on Health Care Use and Outcomes in Inpatient Rehabilitation Facilities
Receiving vertically integrated care in hospital-based inpatient rehabilitation facilities shortens institutional length of stay while maintaining or improving health outcomes.
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Association of Drug Rebates and Competition With Out-of-Pocket Coinsurance in Medicare Part D, 2014 to 2018
Research from Schaeffer Center experts Darius Lakdawalla and Meng Li in JAMA Network Open finds U.S. insurers could use drug manufacturer rebates to lower retail pharmacy prices and reduce patient out-of-pocket burden by 38% on average, or 70% in the most competitive drug classes.
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Advance Care Planning for Medicare Beneficiaries Increased Substantially, but Prevalence Remained Low
Researchers examined fee-for-service Medicare claims and found a substantial increase in outpatient advance care planning claims between 2016 and 2019, although prevalence remained below 7.5Â percent for all patient subgroups analyzed.
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Medicare Advanced Imaging Payment: Dysfunctional Policy Making
Medicare’s experience of paying for outpatient imaging services, particularly expensive advanced imaging such as MRIs, CAT scans, and nuclear scans, has been tumultuous over the last 20 years.
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Will Medicare Run Out of Money?
Join the Bipartisan Policy Center, the American Enterprise Institute, and the USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy for a panel discussion with congressional staff and experts to examine policy options that can avert the worst outcomes and place the Medicare program on a better track.
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Schaeffer Solutions: Health Policy Recommendations for the Biden Administration and 117th U.S. Congress
The USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy has developed practical recommendations and analysis in a number of critical policy areas.
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