A brief PriceWaterhouseCooper report examines premium trends on the reform law's health insurance exchanges.
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A Commonwealth Fund case study highlights efforts to reshape the treatment of common conditions.
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A survey from Finn Partners reveals actions consumers are taking in regard to their health care and health plans.
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From my home state of Minnesota comes a report revealing the shocking fact that people with chronic conditions have high health spending, doh!!
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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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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.