USC-Brookings Schaeffer on Health Policy

Patients check in at Clinica Sierra Vista's Lamont Community Health Center in Bakersfield, California October 20, 2009. Nowhere in the United States has more doctors at its beck and call than White Plains, one of the wealthiest cities in the nation. Nearly 3,000 miles (4,830 km) away, scaring up a doctor in Bakersfield, situated in California's economically battered Central Valley, is a lot harder. In fact, White Plains has more than twice the number of doctors per capita as Bakersfield, where needy patients until recently had to take a 2-hour bus trip to Fresno to see a diabetes treatment specialist. Picture taken October 20, 2009. To match Special Report USA-HEALTHCARE/DOCTORS REUTERS/Phil McCarten (UNITED STATES HEALTH IMAGES OF THE DAY)REUTERS/Phil McCarten (UNITED STATES) - GM1E5B60SNM01

The essential scan: Top findings in health policy research

Abigail Durak, Stephanie Hedt, Will Palmisano, and Paul B. Ginsburg · Thursday, September 20, 2018

An old women does not feel well at home and young nurse taking care about her

The essential scan: Top findings in health policy research

Stephanie Hedt, Will Palmisano, and Paul B. Ginsburg

Thursday, September 6, 2018

Registered Nurse Rebecca Moak poses for a photo in trauma center of the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, Mississippi October 4, 2013. Mississippi is one of at least 20 states that has decided not to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, better known as "Obamacare". REUTERS/Jonathan Bachman (UNITED STATES - Tags: HEALTH POLITICS BUSINESS) - TM4E9A416PD01

The essential scan: Top findings in health policy research

Abigail Durak, Stephanie Hedt, Will Palmisano, and Paul B. Ginsburg

Thursday, August 23, 2018

An elderly man gets his blood pressure taken

CMS’ positive step on site-neutral payments and the case for going further

Loren Adler, Andrés de Loera-Brust, Matthew Fiedler, Paul B. Ginsburg, and Will Palmisano

Friday, August 10, 2018

A radiologist examines X-rays of a patient at the Ambroise Pare hospital in Marseille, southern France, April 8, 2008. REUTERS/Jean-Paul Pelissier (FRANCE) - PM1E4480UAL01

The essential scan: Top findings in health policy research

Abigail Durak, Stephanie Hedt, Will Palmisano, and Paul B. Ginsburg

Thursday, August 9, 2018

A hospital seen from street level

The essential scan: Top findings in health policy research

Abigail Durak, Stephanie Hedt, Will Palmisano, and Paul B. Ginsburg

Monday, July 30, 2018

A nurse attends to medical equipment delivering 4-year old Ely Bowman his treatment for Batten disease at the Orange County Children's Hospital in Orange, California, U.S. August 25, 2017. Picture taken August 25, 2017. REUTERS/Mike Blake - RC1420386B30

The essential scan: Top findings in health policy research

Abigail Durak, Stephanie Hedt, Will Palmisano, and Paul B. Ginsburg

Thursday, July 12, 2018

A lab experiment is shown at the FDA near Washington

The essential scan: Top findings in health policy research

Abigail Durak, Stephanie Hedt, Will Palmisano, and Paul B. Ginsburg

Monday, June 25, 2018

A reporter reads a summary of the performance and usage over the first two days of open enrollment of the Massachusetts Health Connector website, the state's health insurance website under the Affordable Care Act or Obamacare

The essential scan: Top findings in health policy research

Abigail Durak, Stephanie Hedt, Will Palmisano, and Paul B. Ginsburg

Thursday, June 7, 2018

Individuals choosing a health plan

Coverage gains among higher-income people suggest the ACA’s individual mandate had big effects on coverage

Matthew Fiedler

Thursday, May 31, 2018

The emergency room at the University of Kentucky Hospital in Lexington, KY, U.S., February 7, 2018. Picture taken February 7, 2018. REUTERS/Bryan Woolston - RC1BF4DCC6E0

The essential scan: Top findings in health policy research

Abigail Durak, Stephanie Hedt, Will Palmisano, and Paul B. Ginsburg

Thursday, May 17, 2018

A couple leaves the Remote Area Medical (RAM) health clinic at the Wise County Fairgrounds in Wise, Virginia July 24, 2009. The free clinic, which lasts 2 1/2 days, is the largest of its kind in the nation providing medical, dental and vision services from more than 1,400 medical volunteers. For many residents of this Appalachian area, the RAM clinic serves as the only medical care they may receive each year. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton

The case for reforming competitive bidding in Medicare Advantage

Steven M. Lieberman, Erin Trish, Loren Adler, Joseph R. Antos, John Bertko, and Paul B. Ginsburg

Thursday, May 10, 2018

Bottles of prescription painkiller OxyContin made by Purdue Pharma LP sit on a shelf at a local pharmacy in Provo, Utah, U.S., April 25, 2017. REUTERS/George Frey - RC137E5423F0

The essential scan: Top findings in health policy research

Abigail Durak, Stephanie Hedt, Will Palmisano, and Paul B. Ginsburg

Friday, May 4, 2018

22-year-old Errol Samuels from Queens, New York, who lost the use of his legs in 2012 after a roof collapsed onto him at an off-campus house party near where he was attending college in upstate New York, walks with a ReWalk electric powered exoskeletal suit during a therapy session with Alexandra Voigt, a clinical research coordinator and therapist, at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City March 26, 2014. Made by the Israeli company Argo Medical Technologies, ReWalk is a computer controlled device that powers the hips and knees to help those with lower limb disabilities and paralysis to walk upright using crutches. Allan Kozlowski, assistant professor of Rehabilitation Medicine at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai hospital, where patients like Samuels are enrolled in his clinical trials of the ReWalk and another exoskeleton, the Ekso (Ekso Bionics) hopes machines like these will soon offer victims of paralysis new hope for a dramatically improved quality of life and mobility. The ReWalk is currently only approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use in rehabilitation facilities like at Mount Sinai, as they weigh whether to approve the device for home use as it already is in Europe. Picture taken March 26, 2014. REUTERS/Mike Segar (UNITED STATES - Tags: SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY HEALTH BUSINESS TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) - GM1EA3S1RTR01

The essential scan: Top findings in health policy research

Abigail Durak, Stephanie Hedt, Will Palmisano, and Paul B. Ginsburg

Thursday, April 19, 2018

Medical equipment sits in labelled bins inside of the doctor's office of One Medical Group in New York March 17, 2010.

The essential scan: Top findings in health policy research

Abigail Durak, Stephanie Hedt, Will Palmisano, and Paul B. Ginsburg

Thursday, April 5, 2018

Contributors

Dana Goldman

Leonard D. Schaeffer Director's Chair - USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics

Distinguished Professor of Public Policy, Pharmacy, & Economics - USC School of Pharmacy and Price School of Public Policy

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Economic Studies, Center for Health Policy

Matthew Fiedler

Fellow - USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy

Paul B. Ginsburg

Director - Center for Health Policy, USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy

Leonard D. Schaeffer Chair in Health Policy Studies

Senior Fellow - Economic Studies

Mark Hall

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Economic Studies, Center for Health Policy

Steven M. Lieberman

Nonresident Fellow - Economic Studies, Center for Health Policy

Stuart M. Butler

Senior Fellow - Economic Studies

Alice M. Rivlin

Senior Fellow - Economic Studies, Center for Health Policy

Kavita Patel

Nonresident Fellow - Economic Studies, Center for Health Policy

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Dayna Bowen Matthew

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Economic Studies, Center for Health Policy

Loren Adler

Associate Director, Center for Health Policy, Leonard D. Schaeffer Initiative for Innovation in Health Policy

Caitlin Brandt

Assistant Director and Senior Research Analyst - Center for Health Policy, Brookings

Will Palmisano

Senior Research Assistant - Center for Health Policy, Brookings

Sobin Lee

Senior Research Assistant - Center for Health Policy, Brookings

Erin Trish

Nonresident Fellow - Economic Studies, Center for Health Policy, USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy

Neeraj Sood

Director of Research - Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics, USC

Vice Dean for Research and Professor - USC Price School of Public Policy

Jason Doctor

Director of Health Informatics - USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics

Norman Topping Chair in Medicine and Public Policy - Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics, Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California

Chair, Department of Health Policy and Management - USC Price School of Public Policy

Associate Professor - USC Price School of Public Policy

Geoffrey Joyce

Director of Health Policy - USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics, University of Southern California

Chair of Pharmaceutical and Health Economics Department - USC School of Pharmacy

Associate Professor, Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy - USC School of Pharmacy

Darius Lakdawalla

Director of Research - USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics

Quintiles Chair in Pharmaceutical Development and Regulatory Innovation - USC School of Pharmacy

Professor - USC Price School of Public Policy