Health Care Industry

USC-Brookings Schaeffer on Health Policy

Fixed indemnity health coverage is a problematic form of “junk insurance”

Christen Linke Young and Kathleen Hannick

Tuesday, August 4, 2020

A general view of the Emergency Medicine sign at George Washington University Hospital, which is operated jointly with Universal Health Services (UHS), in Washington, D.C. on April 23, 2020 amid the Coronavirus pandemic. After extended negotiations over an additional $500 billion in stimulus funding in response to the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak, the U.S. Congress is set send another economic relief bill to President Trump to sign into law after a House vote later today. (Graeme Sloan/Sipa USA)No Use UK. No Use Germany.

Up Front

Reopening America: Creating a more equitable healthcare system

Stuart M. Butler

Tuesday, July 7, 2020

Illustration photo shows various medicine pills in their original packaging in Brussels, Belgium August 9, 2019. REUTERS/Yves Herman/Illustration

Future Development

Extending the reach of private health initiatives beyond the pill

Pratik Doshi, Joy Bhosai, Elina Urli Hodges, and Krishna Udayakumar

Tuesday, June 30, 2020

A medical technician works in the laboratory of the Infectious diseases department for coronavirus (COVID-19) handling samples of coronavirus COVID 19 tests at the microbiology laboratory of Naples. June 12, 2020 in Naples, Italy. Photo by Salvatore Laporta/IPA/ABACAPRESS.COMNo Use Italy.

Future Development

AI: The complex solution to simplify health care

Drew Arenth

Tuesday, June 16, 2020

Reports

A team of doctors and nurses return a coronavirus patient to a room in the intensive care unit of Purpan Hospital. The hospital has been receiving patients with the coronavirus, COVID19, since the epidemic from China appeared in France and the country has been confined since 17 March 2020. A hundred or so carers take turns working permanently with contaminated hospital patients. 21 April 2020, Toulouse, France.Une equipe de medecins et d infirmieres procedent au retournenement d une patiente atteinte du Coronavirus dans une chambre dans le service de reanimation de l hopital Purpan. L hopital accueille des malades du coronavirus, COVID19, depuis que l epidemie venue de Chine a fait son apparition en France et que le pays est confinee depuis le 17 mars 2020. Une centaine de soignants se relayent en permanence aupres des patients hospitalises contamines. 21 avril 2020, Toulouse, France.NO USE FRANCE

Report

Estimating potential spending on COVID-19 care

Matthew Fiedler and Zirui Song

Thursday, May 7, 2020

Nurse Health Practitioner Rachelle Quimpo (C) introduces patient Shreya Sasaki to Dr. Heidi Meyer, MD Family Medicine, who appears on a video screen remotely at a newly opened Kaiser Permanente health clinic inside a Target retail department store in San Diego, California November 17, 2014. Four clinics are scheduled to open in Southern California to provide pediatric and adolescent care, well-woman care, family planning, and management of chronic conditions like diabetes and high blood pressure for Kaiser members and non-members. REUTERS/Mike Blake (UNITED STATES - Tags: HEALTH BUSINESS SOCIETY)

Technology & Innovation

Removing regulatory barriers to telehealth before and after COVID-19

Nicol Turner Lee, Jack Karsten, and Jordan Roberts

Wednesday, May 6, 2020

A hospital bill for $36,000 with a line item of various charges is photographed with a very shallow depth of field. A credit card and a ballpoint pen rest out of focus in the background.

Health Care Policy

Prevalence and characteristics of surprise out-of-network bills from professionals in ambulatory surgery centers

Erin Duffy, Loren Adler, Paul B. Ginsburg, and Erin Trish

Thursday, April 16, 2020

A health insurance navigator explains services at a booth in Arizona

Report

How well could tax-based auto-enrollment work?

Christen Linke Young and Sobin Lee

Tuesday, April 14, 2020

FILE PHOTO: Doctors look at a screen that shows the ward where patients who are infected with the coronavirus are treated at the First People's Hospital in Yueyang, Hunan Province, near the border to Hubei Province, which is under partial lockdown after an outbreak of a new coronavirus, in China January 28, 2020. REUTERS/Thomas Peter/File Photo

Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Responding to COVID-19: Using the CARES Act’s hospital fund to help the uninsured, achieve other goals

Christen Linke Young, Stan Dorn, Loren Adler, Cheryl Fish-Parchman, and Tara Straw

Monday, April 13, 2020

Blog Posts

People hold up banners in protest against lockdown and vaccination outside New Scotland Yard police headquarters, following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), London, Britain, May 2, 2020. REUTERS/Toby Melville

TechStream

Should there be a public health exemption for Section 230?

Heidi Tworek

Tuesday, May 19, 2020

USC-Brookings Schaeffer on Health Policy

Adapting Medicare Advantage bidding for COVID-19 related uncertainty on claims: A proposal

Steven M. Lieberman

Monday, May 18, 2020

A researcher prepares medicine at a laboratory in Nanjing University in Nanjing, Jiangsu province in this April 29, 2011 file photo. China has increased its spending on science at a blistering rate and now publishes the second most scientific papers in the world after the United States. But China's scientific progress is no sure thing. Interviews with Chinese scientists working in the West together with data from the OECD and some of the world's leading science academies suggest restrictive political and cultural attitudes continue to stifle science there. Picture taken April 29, 2011. To match Insight SCIENCE-CHINA/ REUTERS/Aly Song/Files (CHINA - Tags: HEALTH SOCIETY SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS) - GM1E85S1A9G01

USC-Brookings Schaeffer on Health Policy

How the CARES Act affects COVID-19 test pricing

Loren Adler

Thursday, April 9, 2020

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Thursday, March 8, 2018

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