A study in Population Health Management finds that a telephone-based chronic disease management program had significant net savings.
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Not many physician groups achieved extra payments in the first year of CMS' value-based purchasing program.
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A Health Affairs blog gives further evidence of the deleterious effect of provider consolidation on health care prices and spending.
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Research published in Health Affairs finds that retail clinics, while having lower unit costs for the services they offer, do not lower total health spending.
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A Health Affairs article reports that quality measure collection and reporting activities impose substantial costs on physician practices.
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An AARP-sponsored study on drugs commonly used by older Americans finds an ongoing price increase trend.
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Research carried by the American Journal of Managed Care focuses on different prices paid for the same service at various sites of care.
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A Commonwealth Fund brief sets out a framework to evaluate mobile health apps.
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An evaluation of the concierge style primary care delivered by MDVIP finds the possibility of spending reductions.
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CVS Health releases its initial 2015 Trend Report, suggesting that spending increases for medications have moderated.
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A report published by the National Bureau of Economic Research finds that Americans are generally in good enough health to work longer.
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A study in JMIR-mHealth suggests wide dispersion in the ratings even by expert reviewers of the qualities of health apps.
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An article in the Journal of the American Medical Association describes behavioral interventions to encourage appropriate antibiotic prescribing.
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A paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research examines the relative contributions of moral hazard and adverse selection to inefficiencies in health insurance markets.
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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.