A Health Affairs article analyzes a dip in medical spending growth for the Medicare population from 1999 to 2012.
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Research published in JAMA Internal Medicine looks at reasons for Medicare Advantage disenrollment.
Express Scripts provides us with the first of the big PBM drug spending trend reports.
Two studies in JAMA show modest or no improvement from intensive interventions around diet and weight management for overweight, depressed patients.
Yawn, another study in Health Affairs showing that hospital prices are an issue for containing health spending.
Use of a transitional care service did not improve outcomes for patients with heart failure, according to a study in JAMA.
The Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality releases a brief on average costs at different types of usual sources of care.
A report from Massachusetts examines the relationship between the price a payer reimburses at and a patient’s out-of-pocket cost.
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