A systematic review of the literature on malpractice liability is carried by Health Services Research.
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An Employee Benefit Research Institute report discusses self-funding trends.
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A report from Mark Farrah Associates discusses trends in the managed care Medicaid market.
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A brief from the Manhattan Institute gives a little more accurate information about the private health insurance industry than the usual garbage coming from certain presidential candidates.
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Another paper at the National Bureau of Economic Research examines monopsony power in health care.
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Dementia is a substantial and growing source of cost to the Medicare program.
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Hello Heart, a vendor of another digital heart health tracker, raises $12 million in new financing. I have no clue why investors think we need the 400th iteration of this digital tracking crap that no one is going to find long-term value in.
https://venturebeat.com/2019/07/30/hello-heart-raises-12-million-to-improve-employees-heart-disease-outcomes/Prices for generic drugs have actually fallen fairly rapidly in recent years, according to a study from the National Bureau of Economic Research.
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This year's version of the Milliman Medical Index is out, giving medical cost trend information for employment-based health insurance.
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Digital disease management firm Livongo also went public, raising $350 million and has a valuation of over $2.5 billion. As with Health Catalyst, the shares rose over 40% on the first day of trading and even more so, the valuation is ridiculous and the firm will never live up to it. Can you say Castlight or Evolent.
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