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Mar 25 2013

CMS Research on the Uninsured

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Supposedly the reform act will be fully implemented next January and millions of Americans will be getting health insurance for the first time. A brief from CMS discusses who the…

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Mar 25 2013

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IOM Report on Geographic Spending Variation

Mar 25 2013

tele

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A study in England found that using telehealth to support the care of people with chronic conditions such as COPD, heart disease or diabetes did not appear to be cost-effective, although it might improve quality.

Mar 23 2013

dev

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The Senate has voted overwhelmingly to eliminate the medical device tax imposed as part of the funding for the health reform law. No word on what the President will do. Can you say “its unraveling”?

Mar 22 2013

wsj

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The Wall Street Journal has a story about the likely hefty increase in some health insurance premiums next year.

Mar 22 2013

Inpatient Hospital Prices

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The latest salvo in the hospital pricing war is found in the American Journal of Managed Care, which reveals significant above general inflation increases in the costs of hospital services.

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Mar 21 2013

mpac

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MedPAC’s latest annual report to Congress is out.

Mar 21 2013

wal

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Walgreens, Boots, and AmeriSource Bergen entered into a 10 year deal regarding provision and distribution of drugs, which should provide substantial benefits to Walgreens over time and improves its competitive position.

Mar 21 2013

Effect of Wellness Programs

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The most recent issue of Health Affairs focuses on health and wellness. One of the programs reported found that in a health system's employee population, hospitalizations were reduced but not…

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Mar 21 2013

kaiser

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The Kaiser Permanente organization is often cited as the model of efficient, high-quality care, but a story in the New York Times says that even that system is having great trouble lowering spending, suggesting just how pie-in-the-sky reform law claims are.

Mar 21 2013

er

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Research in the Journal of the American Medical Association suggests that using diagnoses codes alone will not distinguish visits to the ER which were appropriate from those that were not.

Mar 20 2013

infec

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A paper released by Premier says that hospitals participating in an infection reduction program significantly reduced the rate of infections and saved billions of dollars.

Mar 20 2013

iCore Specialty Drug Report

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iCore, a unit of Magellan, presents its third Medical Pharmacy & Oncology Trend Report, which indicates that specialty pharmacy costs continue to grow very rapidly, despite increased management attention from…

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Mar 19 2013

How Much Will Premiums Go Up?

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When the reform law was being sold to a dubious public, we were told that premiums would actually be lower. That is obviously not going to be the case, but…

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Mar 18 2013

exc

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Workers at companies that offered them private exchange options generally selected high deductible plans with lower premiums at a higher rate than they did before the introduction of the private exchanges, according to a Wall Street Journal story. It is unclear whether the workers are assuming they won’t incur health care costs, which can be a dangerous assumption.

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