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Arbitration Over Out-Of-Network Medical Bills: Evidence From New Jersey Payment Disputes
Arbitrators seemed to anchor decision around surprising billing to the 80th percentile of charges with the median decision being 5.7 times prevailing in-network rates for the same services.
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Arbitration Decisions in New Jersey Surprise Billing Cases Result in Large Payouts
The mean award was 9 times higher than the median in-network price for the same services.
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How to Encourage Vaccine Adoption
How can public health leaders address vaccine hesitancy? Join the USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy and the USC Behavioral Science and Well-Being Policy Initiative for an expert discussion on vaccine adoption.
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Capping Prices or Creating a Public Option: How Would They Change What We Pay for Healthcare?
Sharp and large differences in prices for commercial health insurers and Medicare have led some policymakers to propose a larger public role in determining provider prices in commercial coverage.
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The USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy is a partnership between Economic Studies at Brookings and the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics, and aims to inform the national health care debate with rigorous, evidence-based analysis leading to practical recommendations using the collaborative strengths of USC and Brookings.
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Federal Policy Options to Realize the Potential of All Payer Claims Databases
An all-payer claims database (APCD) is a system that collects health care claims and related data from all (or nearly all) entities that pay for health care services in a geographic area, including private and public health plans.
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USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative Receives $3.6 Million from Arnold Ventures to Examine Rising Healthcare Spending
The project will focus on physician consolidation, surprise billing, out-of-pocket spending and policies to address healthcare prices.
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What Can Be Done to Improve All-Payer Claims Databases?
A new report that discusses important limitations with all-payer claims database (APCD) along with actions federal policymakers can take to resolve these limitations.
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High Air Ambulance Charges Concentrated in Private Equity- Owned Carriers
Private equity firm-owned air ambulance services charge markedly higher rates than other types of providers of the same service, according to new research.
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A Supreme Court Decision to Strike Down the ACA Would Create Chaos in the Healthcare System
On November 10, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in California v. Texas, the case in which the Trump Administration and a group of Attorneys General are challenging the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
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Surprise Medical Bills Increase Costs for Everyone, Not Just for the People Who Get Them
About 12% of insurers’ U.S. spending on in- and out-of-network medical care goes to six types of providers that commonly submit surprise bills.