The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has been experimenting with bundled payments and releases an initial evaluation conducted by the Lewin Group.
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The latest report from the Altarum Institute's Center for Sustainable Health Spending confirms that health spending growth appears to be accelerating at the end of 2014 and heading into 2015.
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A study in Health Affairs reviews the evidence for benefits from more extensive health information exchange, finding not much there.
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A presentation from the Petersen-Kaiser Health System Tracker examines what the United States spends on various diseases.
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The latest Congressional Budget Office projections on the reform law indicate that some costs will be lower and other higher and that a large pool of uninsured people will remain.
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Towers Watson issues another survey of employer trends, finding that things aren't likely to get any easier for workers over the next few years.
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PriceWaterhouseCoopers issues a report detailing health services mergers and acquisition activity in 2014.
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CMS toots its own horn on the impact of its quality measuring program. Wonder if providers share the agency's rosy view.
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Another in our occasional attempts to step back and see the forest, however ineptly, of our health system.
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A paper at the National Bureau of Economic Research explores how patients in high-deductible health plans changed behavior in regard to drug use.
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A report from the IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics gives the firm's perspective on trends affecting the pharmaceutical industry.
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The current issue of Health Affairs is focused on innovation in medical products, suggesting that it may be hindered by less funding and regulatory and reimbursement hurdles.
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The International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans conducted a survey last year of over 450 employers in the United States and Canada to learn details about their wellness program activities.
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Yet another study, this one carried by Health Services Research, suggests that current methods for encouraging fewer inappropriate hospital readmissions are inadequate to avoid wrongly punishing hospitals for events beyond…
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The always eagerly-awaited Medicare Advantage Call Letter, this one for 2016, is now available, promising a meager premium increase for plans.
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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.