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How to Get Rid of Surprise Medical Bills
It’s the last thing you want to worry about during a trip to emergency room. Yet, millions of Americans have to deal with surprise medical bills. Paul Ginsburg and his colleagues at Brookings offer solutions for how to eliminate them.
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Encouraging Integrative, Non-Opioid Approaches To Pain: A Policy Agenda
Big changes are necessary to overcome our myopic view favoring immediate pain relief over safer approaches that are effective in the long term.
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To Prevent Another EpiPen Controversy, the Government Should Step In
The real problem is with lax regulatory oversight that doesn’t ensure an adequate supply of drugs critical to population health and opens the door to shocking price increases.
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The Fight Against Zika Can’t Wait for a Vaccine
We need a pandemic czar to fast-track new diagnostics, writes Schaeffer Center fellow David Beier and his colleagues in Harvard Business Review.
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Clinton and Trump are Both Wrong about Medicare’s Ability to Negotiate Drug Prices
The candidates should end their calls for Medicare to negotiate drug prices. It is a distraction and a non-starter for reducing the cost of medicines.
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Affordable Care Act Premiums are Lower Than You Think
Though news stories have focused on premium increases, analysis shows the ACA marketplaces have been successful in lowering premiums for consumers while simultaneously providing better insurance.
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Health Affairs Study On Hospital Profitability Gives Us Some Important Factors To Watch Going Forward
A recent Health Affairs study on the profitability of hospitals points to a small number of factors that we should pay attention to as we think about how to restructure our health care system to improve its economic performance.
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Making Better Antibiotic Prescribing Decisions
More effective solutions to curb antibiotic prescribing should take into account that doctors are human beings and subject to the same biases in decision-making as the rest of us. Jason Doctor discusses a few nudges that work.
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CMMI’s New Comprehensive Primary Care Plus: Its Promise And Missed Opportunities
CPC+ has some very promising components, but also misses some compelling opportunities to further advance payment for primary care services.
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Why Do So Many Doctors Practice Defensive Medicine? Maybe Because it Works
Physicians with higher spending in a given year were substantially less likely to be sued for malpractice the following year.
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