Having a health services price transparency tool available for use by patients doesn't appear to lead to lower health spending, according to research in JAMA.
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Research published in the New England Journal of Medicine finds that hospitals did not respond to readmission penalties by increasing observation stays.
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Its simplee befuddling, but it is plain that investors like Simplee, giving the vendor of services to help patients pay hospitals an additional $20 million in capital.
http://medcitynews.com/2016/05/simplee-patient-payment-service/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=24d203fc0b-MCN+Daily+Email&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5092836c41-24d203fc0b-408793005A unit of the Centers for Disease Control issues a report displaying the state variation in certain types of health care utilization.
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A BenefitFocus research report looks at trends in employee health benefits by large employers.
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A Kaiser Family Foundation Article examines factors influencing 2017 premium rates for the public insurance exchanges and urges caution in assuming large increases. Wishful thinking.
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We interrupt this regularly scheduled blog for something a little less serious.
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Digital Reasoning, which offers analytics in the health care and other industries, has raised an additional $40 million.
http://medcitynews.com/2016/05/digital-reasoning-series-d/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=6b9a8fea84-MCN+Daily+Email&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5092836c41-6b9a8fea84-408793005&rf=1A Medical Economics survey covers a variety of characteristics of physician practices.
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Making a lovely twosome, MedData couples itself to Duet Health, marrying the former's revenue cycle data management business with the latter's patient engagement capabilities.
http://medcitynews.com/2016/05/meddata-duet-health/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=7437d717af-MCN+Daily+Email&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5092836c41-7437d717af-408793005&rf=1About this Blog
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.