Research carried by Heath Affairs examines differences in public and private payer physician office visit reimbursements.
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Change Healthcare, which offers price transparency, payment and related services to payers and providers, is acquiring National Decision Support, which delivers relevant imaging guidelines at the point of care.
https://www.changehealthcare.com/press-room/press-releases/detail/2018/01/18/change-healthcare-acquires-national-decision-support-companyA summary of results across multiple trials finds that to date, wearables are having no discernible impact on health.
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CareDox garners an additional $16 million in funding to expand its focus from EHRs for schools to including care management capabilities.
https://medcitynews.com/2018/01/caredox-raises-16m-series-b-support-expansion-care-management/?utm_campaign=MCN%20Daily%20Top%20Stories&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=60090744&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8ETdptY76d6l5eoLmNb0VT2MD-YUlStxo9Z7MyNWZEFlgJJjTbJ-7UiAxzDp_e54azBLJ-MANnP3ycCCd69cazCyhNlCWkpR1-04iT66DrY7HFPi0&_hsmi=60090744A report from Accenture describes results from a survey of patient preferences regarding medical products.
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A survey from the American Medical Group Association finds that profitability per physician declined for the average group practice in 2017, from an operating loss of about 10% of revenue in 2016 to around 17.5%. Operating revenue per doctor increased somewhat. Private practices had operating gains while health system owned practices had large losses, and smaller practices performed worse than did large ones. If the survey results are accurate, this should add pressure to increase physician reimbursements by payers.
http://www.amga.org/wcm/AboutAMGA/News/2018/20180108.aspxA report from Silicon Valley Bank tracks health care investing and exit trends from 2017.
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Here is how not to do good research. In a study in Health Services Research the authors talked to executives at physician practices to determine if a switch to being owned by a health system lessened patient responsiveness and concluded from the interviews that it did not. What do you expect them to say? Maybe you should talk to patients or use some objective measures.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29143325Segal Consulting releases its 2018 medical cost trend report.
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A paper published at the National Bureau of Economic Research explores the concept of moral hazard in regard to health service use.
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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.
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