No mother's day would be complete without some health care news to ruminate on. This week's include psychiatric drugs, the cost of the SGR fix, home health care costs, telemedicine…
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Imaging services have been labeled one of the "bad boys" of health care, but a review of recently published studies shows that while there are negative aspects to use of…
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A study in JAMA explores hospital readmissions for Medicare beneficiaries, finding that there is significant variation in discharge planning and follow-up, and that early attention to care after discharge leads…
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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.