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Federal policy to end surprise billing: Building on prior approaches

Mihir Dekhne, Loren Adler, Kyle Sheetz, and Karan Chhabra

Monday, February 25, 2019

Ambulances are parked outside the emergency room entrance at Mount Sinai West Roosevelt Hospital in New York

Health Care Policy

State approaches to mitigating surprise out-of-network billing

Loren Adler, Matthew Fiedler, Paul B. Ginsburg, Mark Hall, Erin Trish, Christen Linke Young, and Erin Duffy

Tuesday, February 19, 2019

An elderly man gets his blood pressure taken

Health Care Policy

Improving the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule: Make it part of value-based payment

Robert Berenson and Paul B. Ginsburg

Tuesday, February 5, 2019

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Doctors perform a single-site robotic-assisted hysterectomy on a 49-year-old woman, Sheryl, who had two fibroids, at miVIP Surgery Center, in Los Angeles, California April 23, 2014. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson (UNITED STATES - Tags: HEALTH SOCIETY SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY) - GM1EA4O0TE101

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Will robots replace doctors?

Bob Kocher and Zeke Emanuel

Tuesday, March 5, 2019

Dr. Benjamin Hoffman (L) speaks with Nancy Minoui about 9 month old Marion Burgess, who suffers from a chronic heart condition, at an appointment at the Dornbecher Children's hospital in Portland, Oregon, U.S. December 6, 2017. Picture taken December 6, 2017. REUTERS/Natalie Behring - RC14A7754950

USC-Brookings Schaeffer on Health Policy

Indexing provision in HHS proposed marketplace regulations is not just bad policy, but could be vulnerable to legal challenge

Jason Levitis

Thursday, February 14, 2019

Dr. Larry Kwan speaks with an employee during a doctor's visit at a Cisco health clinic at Cisco Systems in San Jose, California, U.S., March 22, 2018. Picture taken March 22, 2018. REUTERS/Elijah Nouvelage - RC187BA06000

USC-Brookings Schaeffer on Health Policy

The essential scan: Top findings in health policy research

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

Thursday, December 20, 2018

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Paul B. Ginsburg

Director - 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, USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy

Kavita Patel

Nonresident Fellow - Economic Studies, Center for Health Policy

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Medical equipment is pictured on the wall of an examination room inside a Kaiser Permanente health clinic located inside a Target retail department store in San Diego

Health Care Policy

Joint recommendations of Brookings and AEI scholars to reduce health care costs

Henry J. Aaron, Loren Adler, Joseph Antos, James Capretta, Matthew Fiedler, Paul B. Ginsburg, Benedic Ippolito, and Alice M. Rivlin

Friday, March 1, 2019

A general view of the U.S. Capitol building in Washington February 28, 2013. Positions hardened on Wednesday between U.S. President Barack Obama and Republican congressional leaders over the budget crisis even as they arranged to hold last-ditch talks to prevent harsh automatic spending cuts beginning this week. Looking resigned to the $85 billion in "sequestration" cuts starting on Friday, government agencies began reducing costs and spelling out to employees how furloughs will work. REUTERS/Jason Reed (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS) - GM1E92S1U0N01

Access to Health Care

Testimony on Texas v. U.S.: The Republican lawsuit and its impacts on Americans with pre-existing conditions

Christen Linke Young

Wednesday, February 6, 2019

DATE IMPORTED:December 22, 2017Cataldo Ambulance medics John Gardner (L) and David Farmer care for a man in his 40's who was found unresponsive after overdosing on an opioid in the Boston suburb of Salem, Massachusetts, August 9, 2017. The victim received a total of 12mg of naloxone. Nurses at the hospital recognised the man, saying he was brought in the day before after overdosing. REUTERS/Brian Snyder

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Reducing Unfair Out-of-Network Billing — Integrated Approaches to Protecting Patients

Mark Hall, Loren Adler, Paul B. Ginsburg, and Erin Trish

Thursday, January 17, 2019

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USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy

Examining surprise billing: Protecting patients from financial pain

Building on the ACA to achieve universal coverage

The Trump administration’s new challenge to the Affordable Care Act

World Class: A conversation with author Dr. William A. Haseltine

Research

Federal policy to end surprise billing: Building on prior approaches

State approaches to mitigating surprise out-of-network billing

Improving the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule: Make it part of value-based payment

Blog Posts

Will robots replace doctors?

Indexing provision in HHS proposed marketplace regulations is not just bad policy, but could be vulnerable to legal challenge

The essential scan: Top findings in health policy research

Events

Emerging policy solutions to surprise medical bills

Reforming Stark/Anti-Kickback Policies

23rd annual Wall Street Comes to Washington Health Care Roundtable

Experts

Paul B. Ginsburg

Director - 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, USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy

Kavita Patel

Nonresident Fellow - Economic Studies, Center for Health Policy

More on USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy

Joint recommendations of Brookings and AEI scholars to reduce health care costs

Testimony on Texas v. U.S.: The Republican lawsuit and its impacts on Americans with pre-existing conditions

Reducing Unfair Out-of-Network Billing — Integrated Approaches to Protecting Patients