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Payment and Billing Strategies to Support Methadone Take-Home Medication at Opioid Treatment Programs in New York State

November 26, 2024

For several decades, patients were required to visit a federally certified clinic or Opioid Treatment Program (OTP) to receive methadone maintenance treatment for opioid use disorder. They typically received ...

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Brooks School, Weill Cornell Medicine Launch Center to Improve Health Policy

November 19, 2024

Weill Cornell Medicine and the Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy have established the Cornell Health Policy Center (CHPC) to serve as the locus for health policy impact, research and training across Cornell.

The center connects health policy researchers across Cornell’s campuses to help shape effective health policy at the federal, state and local levels. It will focus on policies...

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For-Profit Hospices Increasing Despite Poor Performance

November 18, 2024

Hospices are increasingly owned by private equity firms and publicly traded companies, but recently Weill Cornell Medicine researchers found that they performed substantially worse than hospices owned by not-for-profit agencies. This is concerning as nearly 75% of hospice programs, which care for patients in their last stage of life, are for-profit.

The ...

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Revising Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Policy Could Save Billions

October 7, 2024

Removing protected class regulation from Medicare prescription drug policies could greatly reduce the United States' prescription drug spending—this could have saved potentially $47 billion between 2011-2019, according to Weill Cornell Medicine researchers.

The study, published Oct. 7 in Health Affairs,...

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