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Agency Overreach Leaves Patients Untreated

https://schaeffer.usc.edu/research/agency-overreach-leaves-patients-untreated/

Medicare’s Coverage with Evidence Development program is stifling patient access to innovative FDA-approved products, from heart valve replacements to PET scans for Alzheimer’s. It’s time for a major overhaul.

How Does Corporate Tax Policy Influence Innovation?

https://schaeffer.usc.edu/research/corporate-tax-policy-innovation/

Corporate income tax reductions lead to more innovation within a country or state without raising overall global innovation rates, while R&D tax credits have more limited effects on innovation.

A Vision for Rebuilding CMS

https://schaeffer.usc.edu/research/a-vision-for-rebuilding-cms/

Strengthening the agency will require answering critically important questions regarding how CMS should be organized and what human capital skills it will need.

2025 Clinical Trial Recruitment Lab (CTRL) Request for Applications

https://schaeffer.usc.edu/research/2025-clinical-trial-recruitment-lab-ctrl-request-for-applications/

This notice invites applications for projects that leverage innovative technology-based approaches, including AI and machine learning, to overcome recruitment and retention barriers in Alzheimer’s clinical trials.

Ensuring Most-Favored Nation Drug Pricing Doesn’t Sicken Us

https://schaeffer.usc.edu/research/ensuring-most-favored-nation-drug-pricing-doesnt-sicken-us/

Lowering drug prices to European benchmarks would ultimately reduce innovation and make Americans less healthy. Instead, a drug pricing system based on U.S. values would enhance access and support medical progress.

Testimony on IRA Implementation’s Threat to Medicine

https://schaeffer.usc.edu/research/testimony-on-ira-implementations-threat-to-medicine/

The Inflation Reduction Act’s drug pricing provisions threaten continued therapeutic advances. Meanwhile, early implementation of its Part D benefit redesign has likely increased out-of-pocket costs for many Medicare beneficiaries.

The Price of Survival, Paid in Advance

https://schaeffer.usc.edu/research/the-price-of-survival-paid-in-advance/

A comparison of hospital policies in the U.S. and India offers insight into how different countries value care.