An analysis in JAMA Internal Medicine suggests that the cost of drug pivotal trials may be less than what the industry suggests.
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Accenture issues a report on health plan administrative complexity and the interaction with patient literacy, claiming doing a better job would save a few billion a year.
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Yet another paper on geographic spending variation; its sources and extent.
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The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission has some recommendations for updating Medicare's hospital quality measurement programs.
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The incidence of Alzheimer's and other dementias is projected to keep rising, becoming an even bigger source of spending pressure.
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The International Federation of Employee Benefit Plans gives us another survey of benefits.
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A study in JAMA Network suggests that there is lower health spending associated with greater well-being among Medicare recipients.
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A Commonwealth Fund brief looks at using reference pricing for drugs.
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A MedPAC presentation covers clinician payment trends and analysis.
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A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association examines disparities in hospitalization outcomes.
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JAMA has a couple of interesting research letters regarding uptake of biosimilars.
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Prominent health economist Victor Fuchs discusses the "efficiency" of the US health care system.
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A Mark Farrah Associates brief shows that as of mid-year, health plans are having good results across all lines of business.
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Two studies in the Journal of the American Medical Association discuss results from the first year of the Medicare joint replacement bundled payment demonstration.
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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.