A report from the Patient Centered Primary Care Colloborative discusses primary care spending by state.
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AHRQ issues a new Statistical Brief updating information relating to employment-based health care coverage.
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A new Kaiser Family Foundation brief examines persistently high-cost patients.
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Research in NEJM analyzes eight years' experience with the Massachusetts BCBS alternative quality contract.
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A Journal of Health Economics study looks at health care expenditures in old age and near death.
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A paper from the Pacific Research Group finds that there are large potential savings from more, and more use of, biosimilars.
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A study carried by the Journal of Health Economics explores how consumers react to reference pricing.
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Research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association looks at the effects of switching to a capitated reimbursement method for primary care physicians.
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A study in Health Affairs tracks the impact of readmission penalties on surgery hospitalizations.
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New research suggests that many serious malpractice claims derive from diagnostic errors.
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A Merritt Hawkins survey focuses on incentives used to recruit physicians and other clinicians.
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A new study finds that using private health plans for Medicaid benefit provision improves quality but doesn't lower spending.
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I know it's shocking, just shocking, but the RVS, basically created by doctors, may overstate the time that various medical tasks take.
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Research in a National Bureau of Economic Research paper explores how physicians behave as patients.
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An article in Health Affairs describes the negative effects that EHRs have on physician work satisfaction.
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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.
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