International Travel Restrictions During a COVID-19 Pandemic
With initial restrictions on social interactions being lifted in many U.S. states, policy-makers must consider when and how to lift restrictions on international travel, particularly between Europe and the United States.
Productivity Growth in Treating a Major Chronic Health Condition
Between 2004-2012, productivity growth translated into only modest improvement in patient outcomes; most of the growth was realized in the form of lower treatment costs.
Estimating Potential Spending on COVID-19 Care
Schaeffer Initiative researchers quantify the estimated costs of COVID-19 care in the U.S. in a new report.
What If We Gave Hospitals Real Incentives To Prepare For The Next Pandemic?
COVID-19 makes it clear that many hospitals are not adequately prepared to handle pandemics. Kocher writes that we need to rethink the way we incentivize hospitals to handle pandemic response.
US Pharmacists Can Now Test for Coronavirus. They Could Do More If Government Allowed It.
As the health care system tries to solve the crisis in care around the coronavirus, pharmacists stand ready to help.
Regulating Out-Of-Network Hospital Emergency Prices: Problem And Potential Benchmarks
Melnick focuses on the need and options to regulate hospital out-of-network emergency prices. Using data from California, he analyzes potential benchmarks for setting these prices.
Rubber Meeting the Road: Access to Comprehensive Stroke Care in the Face of Traffic
The researchers analyzed how long it took Los Angeles County emergency medical services to transport patients to CSCs, and found that traffic conditions affect consistent access, particularly in socioeconomically disadvantaged neighborhoods.
Georgia’s 1332 Waiver Violates the ACA and Cannot Lawfully be Approved
Christen Linke Young and Jason Levitis explain why Georgia’s 1332 waiver would fail the affordability guardrail and is based on several assumptions.
Policy Issues in Dialysis Care
The challenges that policymakers face when trying to encourage the delivery of high quality, cost‐efficient dialysis care to all patients who require dialysis are evident in the state of dialysis care today.
Rosalie Liccardo Pacula, PhD
Rosalie Liccardo Pacula holds the Elizabeth Garrett Chair in Health Policy, Economics & Law in the Health Policy and Management Department at the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy. She is also a Research Associate in the Health Economics and Crime programs at the National Bureau of Economics (NBER). Trained as an applied micro…
The Use of Vendors in Medicare Part B Drug Payment
USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative experts provide an analysis of a voluntary vendor approach for Medicare to restrain drug spending for Part B drugs.
We Need More Primary Care Physicians: Here’s Why and How
USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative researchers explain why we need more primary care physicians and how to close the gap between primary care and specialty medicine.
Book Review: Immunotherapy’s Promise
Jakub Hlávka reviews a new book on the future of cancer treatments that he writes “[offers] a hopeful account of medical research that could, one day, save even more lives.”
Value-Based Contracting in Healthcare: What Is It and How Can It Be Achieved?
Value-based contracts must incentivize the clinical decision maker, usually the physician, to allocate treatment based on both price and value. Changing certain elements in the financing system could create an environment for successful value-based contracting without having to reform the entire system.
Testimony on Examining MACRA Implementation and the Road Ahead
Matthew Fiedler spoke at the Senate Finance Committee on May 8 about the implementation of the Medicare physician payment provisions of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA).
10 Years of Research with Impact
2009 – 2018 1 – Making Medicare Work Better 2 – Investing in America’s Future Health 3 – Achieving Healthier Communities Globally 4 – Informing the ACA Debate 5 – Redefining Value in Cancer Care 6 – Curbing Inappropriate Prescribing 7 – Examining Hospital and Health System Productivity and Value 8 – Improving Performance of…
Medicaid Expansion Increases Access to Diabetes Medications
States that expanded Medicaid saw a 40 percent increase in prescription fills for common diabetes drugs in 2014-2015 according to the study in Health Affairs.
Medicaid Eligibility Expansions May Address Gaps In Access To Diabetes Medications
The researchers find Medicaid eligibility expansions are linked to increases in prescription fills for diabetes drugs.
Pain Relief Without Pills
CESR researcher Joan Broderick trains healthcare providers on a successful, non-pharma approach for patients to manage their chronic pain that may help stem American’s opioid crisis.
Jorge Luis García, PhD
Jorge Luis García is an associate professor of economics at Texas A&M University. His research focuses on the intersection of labor and development economics. He uses reduced-form and structural methods traditionally associated with labor economics to try to understand, design, and evaluate social policies that contribute to developing the economic conditions of countries and the…