Patient and Physician Behavior
Our work in Patient and Physician Behavior
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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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Where Patients Get Prescription Opioids: It’s Not Where You Might Think
A new study is a hard look in the mirror for how providers have contributed to the addiction epidemic
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Impact of Consumer-Directed Health Plans on Low-Value Healthcare
Consumer-directed health plan are not associated with reduced spending on low-value healthcare services.
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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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Policy Approaches to the Opioid Crisis, Featuring Remarks from Sir Angus Deaton, Congresswoman Ann McLane Kuster, and Professor Bertha K. Madras
On Friday, November 3, the USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy will host a conference on how public policy can address the opioid epidemic.
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How Health Care Providers Can Help End the Overprescription of Opioids
Battling the opioid epidemic requires flexible, carefully designed, and rapidly evaluated policies.Â
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Without a ‘Nudge;’ Old Prescribing Habits Die Hard
Continue low-cost nudges for the most impact, study finds.
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Tackling the Opioid Crisis with Compassion, New Ways to Reduce Use and Treatment
This piece explains how we arrived at the current opioid crisis, policies that have been tried thus far, and options to address the crisis moving forward.
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Does Identification of Previously Undiagnosed Conditions Change Care Seeking Behavior?
In-home assessments increased doctor visits for newly diagnosed conditions, yet patients without established provider were less likely to seek care.
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Poster Commitments Make an Impact on Antibiotic Prescribing
Study authors assist states and clinicians across the country to implement intervention.