Dr. James J. Heckman is the USC Presidential Scholar-in-Residence at the Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics. Dr. Heckman is also the Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago, where he has served since 1973. In 2000, Professor Heckman won the Nobel Prize in Economics for contributions to the field of policy analysis (the study of selection bias and for the evaluation of social programs). He directs the Center for the...

USC Schaeffer Center Quintiles Health Policy Seminar Series and the Bedrosian Price Research Collaborative Series. The Bedrosian Center on Governance and the Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics invite you to hear Mitchell Katz, M.D., the Director of the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, speak as part of the Quintiles Seminar Series that features prominent academics, researchers, policy makers, and industry leaders to discuss prevalent and current themes in...

The closing plenary of the American Society for Health Economists conference featured an awards ceremony and the national Leonard D. Schaeffer Chairs. The awards presented were: Victor R. Fuchs Award for Lifetime Achievement to Joseph Newhouse ASHEcon Medal to Amy Finkelstein Student Paper Award to Alice Chen The national Leonard D. Schaeffer chairs panel on payment reform followed. The four current chairs spoke on various aspects of payment reform, including accountable care...

Lunchtime plenary at the 2014 American Society of Health Economists conference hosted by the Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics, video 1 of 4. This session includes opening remarks by Debbie Freund, President of Claremont Graduate University. Craig Fox from UCLA is the first presenter, speaking on why studying clinician behavior is important and well suited to decision science.

Lunchtime plenary at the 2014 American Society of Health Economists conference hosted by the Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics, video 3 of 4. Kevin Volpp from the University of Pennsylvania discusses some general observations and insights from his work on incenting patients.

Lunchtime plenary at the 2014 American Society of Health Economists conference hosted by the Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics, video 4 of 4. The three plenary presenters: Craig Fox, Jason Doctor and Kevin Volpp engage in a Q and A with the audience.

Lunchtime plenary at the 2014 American Society of Health Economists conference hosted by the Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics, video 2 of 4. Jason Doctor, Director of Health Informatics at the Schaeffer Center, presents on nonmonetary social motivators that can alter physician behavior and reach better health outcomes.

ASHEcon Executive Director, Tony Lo Sasso, presents ASHEcon President Frank Sloan with the 2014 Presidential Award for his service to the organization. Frank Sloan delivers the biennial Presidential address and unveils the American Journal of Health Economics.

This is the Opening Plenary of the 2014 American Society of Health Economists conference (ASHEcon), hosted by the Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics at USC. The Opening Plenary included opening remarks by Tony Lo Sasso, Executive Director of ASHEcon, and Frank Sloan, President of ASHEcon. Neeraj Sood, Director of Research, Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics, presented results from a survey of the membership, which consists of American health economists....

The USC Schaeffer Center welcomes David Leonhardt to USC to share his insights on U.S. policy, as well as the future of journalism. His new venture, The Upshot, will cover politics and policy, using conversational language, data and graphics in a way that aims to "appeal to the many people out there who wish they understood the world a bit better." Leonhardt is a Pulitzer Prize winner and was previously the New York Times' Washington bureau chief. As an economics columnist, he focused on...

This was an informational hearing for the California Assembly Select committee on biotechnology. Professor Darius Lakdawalla is the Quintiles Chair of Pharmaceutical Development and Regulatory Innovation at the School of Pharmacy, with a joint appointment at the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy. He is an economist at the Schaeffer Center and was asked to present on California’s biotechnology marketplace and how higher education and innovation can drive the state’s success.

Dana Goldman is a Professor and the Leonard D. Schaeffer Director’s Chair at the University of Southern California. Until Fall 2009, he held RAND’s Distinguished Chair in Health Economics and directed RAND’s program in Economics, Finance, and Organization. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Health Services and Radiology at UCLA. Dr. Goldman is a nationally-recognized health economist influential in both academic and policy circles. He is the author of over 100 articles and book chapters,...

On February 6, 2013, the USC Price School in Sacramento hosted a panel discussion on the challenges and opportunities of the California Health Benefit Exchange. The speakers included: Peter Lee, Executive Director of the CA Health Benefit Exchange; Dana Goldman, founding director of the Leonard Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics at USC; Bob Kocher, Partner at Venrock and Jay Hansen, Chief Strategy Officer for the California Medical Association.

A tribute and short history of the extraordinary achievements of Leonard D. Schaeffer, founder of the USC Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics.

Featuring Darius Lakdawalla, Professor in the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy and Quintiles Chair in Pharmaceutical Development and Regulatory Innovation as well as Director of Research at Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics

Industry experts from a variety of professional backgrounds discuss the recent Affordable Care Act ruling, specifically noting the way in which this landmark case will affect the management of health organizations in CA.

Judge Widney Distinguished Lecture Leaders, Managers, or Analysts: Who Will Shape the Future? Leonard D. Schaeffer is the founding Chairman & CEO of WellPoint, the nation's largest health insurance company. WellPoint has over 33 million medical members and annualized revenues of $58 billion. He is currently the Judge Robert Maclay Widney Chair and Professor at the University of Southern California and a Senior Advisor to TPG Capital, a private equity firm. Sponsored by the USC Price...

The Long-term Impact of Medicare Payment Reductions on Patient Outcomes (http://www.nber.org/papers/w16859) This study examines the long term impact of Medicare payment reductions on patient outcomes using a natural experiment - the Balance Budget Act of 1997.We use predicted Medicare revenue changes due to BBA, with simulated BBA payment cuts as an instrument, to categorize hospitals by degrees of payment cuts (small, moderate, or large), and follow Medicare patient outcomes in these...

The policy debates over the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare"), and current efforts to repeal it or hamper its implementation, are fueled by starkly different views of the ability of private markets to deliver health care effectively. This presentation reviews where health care in America stands relative to the rest of the world, and where it is going, with or without Obamacare. It reviews the experience with the market for prescription drug insurance established in...