The Essential Scan: Top Findings in Health Policy Research | Edition 6
What’s the latest in health policy research? The Essential Scan, produced by the Schaeffer Initiative for Innovation in Health Policy, aims to help keep you informed on the latest research and what it...
View ArticleCaring for Special-Needs Children at Home Brings High Cost
U.S. families provide nearly $36 billion annually in uncompensated medical care at home to children who have special health care needs, such as muscular dystrophy and cystic fibrosis, according to a...
View ArticleFour Recommendations to Advance Medicare Delivery System Reform
Editor’s Note: This analysis is part of the USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy, which is a partnership between the Center for Health Policy at Brookings and the USC Schaeffer Center...
View ArticleQ&A with USC School of Pharmacy PhD Candidate Sang Cho
Cho, a PharmD graduate of St. John’s University who worked as a supervising pharmacist in New York before embarking on his PhD at USC, shared his experience as the only pharmacist and health economist...
View ArticleHow Health Care Providers Can Help End the Overprescription of Opioids
This article originally appeared in the Harvard Business Review on October 24, 2017. By: Anupam B. Jena, Michael Barnett, and Dana Goldman By any metric, opioid-related overdoses in the United States...
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The Essential Scan: Top Findings in Health Policy Research | Edition 30
What’s the latest in health policy research? The Essential Scan, produced by the Schaeffer Initiative for Innovation in Health Policy, aims to help keep you informed on the latest research and what it...
View ArticleFuture Adult Model
Future Adult Model The Future Adult Model (FAM) is an economic-demographic microsimulation that extends the Roybal Center’s Future Elderly Model (FEM) to the entire adult population in the United...
View ArticleData Resources
Data Resources With its state-of-the-art Data Core, the USC Schaeffer Center provides access to more than 70 databases covering tens of millions of lives, and maintains exacting standards of excellence...
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The Schaeffer Center is charged with producing relevant, rigorous research of consequence. The Center identifies opportunities to increase value in healthcare delivery, improve performance of...
View ArticleReforming Stark/Anti-Kickback Policies
In recent years, the health care system has accelerated experimentation into new payment and delivery models that reward care coordination, integration, and value. However, observers and market...
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Potential Impacts of Recreational Marijuana Policies and Regulatory...
Editor’s Note: The following is a testimony delivered by Rosalie Liccardo Pacula to the Committee on Health and Human Services, Florida House of Representatives on December 11, 2019. More information...
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Life on the Edge: Alameda County Mobile Therapists Treat Low-Income Moms...
Photo: SAN LORENZO, CA – DECEMBER 10: Cieara Porter plays with her 4-month-old baby Mekhi Flores as her psychotherapist Maria Pilecki of Alameda County’s Blue Skies program looks on during a therapy...
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The Essential Scan: Top Findings in Health Policy Research | Edition 77
What’s the latest in health policy research? The Essential Scan aims to help keep you informed on the latest research and what it means for policymakers. It is produced by the USC-Brookings Schaeffer...
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Taking a Broader View of “Junk Insurance”
The Affordable Care Act, building on decades of prior law, took important steps to establish a comprehensive regulatory structure that sets minimum standards for health care coverage. Despite those...
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The Dental Care Program at School Was Something to Smile About. Until the...
Photo: Angelic Mendoza Garcia, 18 months, receives a checkup from dental hygienist Jennifer Bidwell, center, while her mother, Maria Espinoza, observes as a part of the Every Smile Counts program at...
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Parents’ Perspectives on the Effects of COVID-19 on K-12 Education,...
Reopening schools in the U.S. after summer vacation has never before been subject to so much uncertainty. Contrary to hopes at the end of the 2019-20 school year, U.S. COVID-19 cases and deaths did not...
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Georgia’s Latest 1332 Proposal Continues To Violate the ACA
Editor’s Note: This analysis is part of the USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy, which is a partnership between Economic Studies at Brookings and the University of Southern California...
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Evidence of COVID-19’s Impact on K-12 Education Points to Critical Areas of...
At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers at USC Dornsife Center for Economic and Social Research (CESR) began tracking social, economic, and education outcomes among Americans through its...
View ArticleRoybal Center Pilot Project Awardees
USC Roybal Center for Behavioral Interventions in Aging Pilot Projects Applications for funding for the 2022-2023 pilots are closed. Application information can be found here. Year 2 Roybal Center...
View ArticleFDA’s Approval of Aducanumab Paves the Way for ‘More Momentous’ Alzheimer’s...
Editor’s note: This op-ed was originally published by STAT on June 7, 2021. The Food and Drug Administration yanked the fight against Alzheimer’s out of the mire with its approval of the first...
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