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Ideas About Resourcing Health Care in the United States: Can Economic Evaluation Achieve Meaningful Use?
In a study published in Annals of Internal Medicine, we suggest several ways that economic evaluation could become an effective component of value-based decision-making.
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GAO Report Sheds Additional Light on Misleading and Deceptive Marketing Practices Among Non-Compliant Health Plans
The GAO report underscores three key themes: misleading information is shockingly prevalent, a wide variety of junk plans are sold and may frequently be bundled together, and fixed indemnity plans appear to play a large role.
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NEJM: Competing Visions for the Future of Health Policy
Beyond Covid-19, two other health policy issues are poised to feature prominently in the 2020 U.S. elections: what role government should play in ensuring broad health insurance coverage, and how to cope with the lack of competition in many health care provider markets.
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COVID-19 May Move the Needle on Value-Based Payment
Erin Trish, Elizabeth Fowler, and Paul Ginsburg discussed the future of value-based payment models at a recent webinar viewed by over 500 people.
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Lessons from International Experience in Determining Healthcare Prices
Part 3 of a panel series on health care price regulation honoring Uwe E. Reinhardt (1937-2017)
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Healthcare Price Regulation and Public Options: Assessing Approaches to Increasing the Public Role
Part 2 of a panel series on healthcare price regulation honoring Uwe E. Reinhardt (1937-2017)
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Georgia’s Latest 1332 Proposal Continues To Violate the ACA
Scholars from the USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy Georgia’s latest 1332 Proposal, analyzing its major analytical errors and procedural deficiencies that render it unapprovable.
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Is the Choice of Cost-Effectiveness Threshold in Cost-Utility Analysis Endogenous to the Resulting Value of Technology? A Systematic Review
This analysis highlights that most cost-utility analyses that cite high cost-effectiveness thresholds also result in greater incremental cost-effectiveness ratios for the novel interventions that they investigate.
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The “Advancing American Kidney Health” Executive Order: Challenges and Opportunities for the Large Dialysis Organizations
This perspective in the American Journal of Kidney Diseases examines how the “Advancing American Kidney Health” Executive Order (AAKH) might reshape the US dialysis market.
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Fixed Indemnity Health Coverage Is a Problematic Form of “Junk Insurance”
Fixed indemnity products are offered in problematic and nontransparent ways in the individual market for health insurance and by employers offering coverage to their workers.