A new paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research examines the relationship between physician training and practice variation.
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An Avalere analysis confirms that CMS' Medicare Advantage risk adjustment formulas don't accurately pay for seriously ill patients.
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Medicare's quality improvement programs may have a disproportionately negative impact on teaching hospitals.
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A brief note from Accenture highlights investment in convenient on-demand forms of health care, like video and internet consultations.
https://www.accenture.com/t20151120T024431__w__/us-en/_acnmedia/Accenture/Conversion-Assets/DotCom/Documents/Global/PDF/Dualpub_25/Accenture-Healthcare-for-Here-or-to-Go-v2.pdf#zoom=50Sometimes if you aren't doing too well on your own, you can combine with someone else who isn't doing too well. I have no idea what is behind this combination but four health care management and transaction service companies are merging, Premier Healthcare Exchange, Stratose, GlobalCare and Pay-Plus Solutions, all supposedly industry leaders, so God knows how dominant that new entity will be.
http://www.phx-online.com/2016/01/28/industry-leaders-combine-to-form-unparalleled-company-in-healthcare-value-management/2016 has started out with a thud in the equity markets and that may reflect what is happening in our economy. Health care costs play a role.
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Concierge health care provider One Medical has added one more medical capability, acquiring Rise, a vendor of nutritional counseling services, supposedly for $20 million.
http://medcitynews.com/2016/02/one-medical-acquires-nutrion-app-developer-rise/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=9fb0a92a06-MCN+Daily+Email&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5092836c41-9fb0a92a06-408793005&rf=1An article in the New England Journal of Medicine describes high-cost patients across payer types.
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Research in the New England Journal of Medicine examines characteristics of doctors who are likely to have malpractice claims.
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