A Robert Wood Johnson report contains misleading claims that the federal reform law helped reduce health spending.
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Willis Towers Watson gives us insights from a survey of employers on their health benefit practices and intentions.
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Research published in the journal Medical Care suggests that a hospital participating in quality improvement efforts doesn't have lower care costs than hospitals that don't.
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Outcome Health, which says it provides "health intelligence during critical moments of care", but actually just offers electronic advertising in doctors' offices and other care settings, has raised an astounding $500 million in a round that values the company at over $5 billion.
https://www.pehub.com/2017/05/outcome-health-lands-funding/According to an American Medical Association survey less than half of doctors are now in independent practice.
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Bright Health looks brilliant, raising an additional $160 million in capital to support a push into Medicare Advantage markets. Not so sure about the investors' brightness.
http://medcitynews.com/2017/06/quest-fix-broken-member-experience-insurance-bright-health-raises-fresh-capital/?utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=52658180&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8vO-_YdnTyHDtxjtv0zyJpq-v02KLoaY61ReFhhduqegHql-Gf6jyALC8S8O7834ES-JjR-Qmu0Ge1vrdbu6wsU_de2JSSGwXs7_B6rsugphPyck8&_hsmi=52658180The effects of payment reform may depend on the competitiveness of a provider market, according to research in the Journal of Health Economics.
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A study in the Journal of the American Medical Association suggests that teaching hospitals have lower mortality rates.
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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.