Recently we looked at the newest AHRQ Statistical Briefs on Concentration of Health Spending. Today we look at another Statistical Brief showing which diagnoses are related to those high-spending individuals.
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The 340B drug pricing program is under assault for misuse. Two recent Health Affairs studies examined dispensing patterns in 340B pharmacy programs and who is benefiting.
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Specialty EMR vendor Modernizing Medicine attains a new $15 million investment, partly to be used for developing telemedicine capabilities.
http://medcitynews.com/2014/11/cloud-based-specialty-emr-developer-modernizing-medicine-raises-15m/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=18cfdbe05c-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c05cce483a-18cfdbe05c-67648197Sentrian has elicited a $12 investment in software designed to improve remote health monitoring by screening out false positives.
http://medcitynews.com/2014/11/in-move-to-reduce-false-positives-in-remote-patient-monitoring-health-it-company-raises-12m/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=61427627d9-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c05cce483a-61427627d9-67648197MDLive, which offers telehealth visits, has acquired Breakthrough Behavioral, which offers video consulting.
http://www.healthdatamanagement.com/news/Telehealth-Vendor-Targets-Behavioral-Health-49208-1.html?utm_campaign=daily-nov%2011%202014&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&ET=healthdatamanagement%3Ae3323954%3A3722900a%3A&st=emailBenefits firm Segal Group has released its projections of 2015 health plan cost trend, anticipating variable but significant health spending growth.
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A study in the New England Journal of Medicine looks at how Medicare beneficiaries assigned to ACOs view their care.
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