An AHRQ comparative effectiveness review generally finds that telehealth consultations produces as good or better outcomes as non-telehealth ones.
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Low-income Americans tend to have a syndrome of bad health behaviors, including poor nutrition. A study using fruit and vegetable only vouchers did not improve use of those supposedly healthy foods, proving once again what should be obvious, to change behavior you probably have to use sticks as well as carrots.
https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/abs/10.1377/hlthaff.2018.05405CMS releases an analysis of the first year of the Medicare Comprehensive Primary Care Plus demonstration.
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SureScripts issues its annual progress report relating to use of its data and transaction network.
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Babel Health translates investors’ wishes and harmonizes a fresh $5 million in capital for a suite of encounter data submission and risk adjustment software for providers and plans doing a Medicare, Medicaid and insurance exchange business.
Medicare is proposing to test some new payment approaches with providers.
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An article in Health Affairs proposes a standard for evaluating the "fairness" of drug pricing.
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The Integrated Healthcare Association releases an analysis of California providers who take financial risk and the quality of their care.
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A study in Health Affairs examines the nature of provider networks in Medicare Advantage plans, with a focus on prevalence of narrow networks.
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The Healthy Skeptic is a website about the health care system, and is written by Kevin Roche, who has many years of experience working in the health industry. Mr. Roche is available to assist health care companies through consulting arrangements through Roche Consulting, LLC and may be reached at khroche@healthy-skeptic.com.