A study in JAMA Network Open finds that being covered by a high-deductible plan isn't associated with abandoning treatment for diabetes.
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How specialists are paid doesn't appear strongly related to how they treat patients or outcomes.
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The Office of the Actuary has released its report on national health spending for 2018. It is still going up and up.
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A WillisTowersWatson report outlines expectations for global medical cost trends in 2020.
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Lack of access to specialists creates worse outcomes for rural patients, according to a Health Affairs study.
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A poster presented at an American Heart Association conference suggests it might be dangerous to rely on patient-reported information.
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A MedPAC presentation looks at whether greater Medicare Advantage membership in a market is associated with spending or coding changes for FFS beneficiaries in those markets.
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Life expectancy is experiencing an unexpected, so to speak, and alarming decline in the United States.
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Holiday season is here and I would like to wish everyone a very relaxing Thanksgiving, hopefully enjoying family and friends.
Political correctness comes to health research, as a pathetically illogical article claims a commonly used risk-scoring method exhibits racial bias.
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A Statistical Brief from AHRQ examines certain trends in costs of retail drugs.
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A study in the Journal of the American Medical Association Network Open finds savings and no harm from using a single-source approach to medical device procurement.
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According to an article in Health Affairs, adding a cost-sharing free annual wellness visit to the Medicare benefits hasn't done much for better health.
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A viewpoint in the Journal of the American Medical Association addresses the failure of the extensive set of quality improvement initiated by policymakers in the last decade.
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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.