An Article in Health Affairs discusses the potential effect on the federal budget of health insurance premium increases leading employers to send more employees to the exchanges.
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Research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association finds that using individual physician incentives, but not practice-wide or combined incentives, appeared to improve hypertension control.
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The Kaiser Family Foundation releases an early look at the health insurance marketplace for 2014 in 17 states.
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Health insurance exchange firm bSwift issues its 2013 Wellness and Benefits Administration Benchmarking Study.
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One of the most fascinating aspects of the health spending problem is identifying on which patients and for what is all that money being spent. A new Agency for Healthcare…
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The Commonwealth Fund published an Issue Brief summarizing the views of 15 experts on hospital readmissions, who analyzed current efforts to reduce avoidable readmissions.
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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.