This is the first of several posts on the Medicare Payment Advisory Commissions 2013 Annual Report to Congress, which covers a variety of provider types and other issues. In this…
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Several articles and commentaries in recent Journal of the American Medical Association issues focus on the role of genomics and personalized medicine in health care.
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A Robert Wood Johnson report describes the ongoing decline in employment-based health insurance, driven by ongoing large premium increases and exacerbated by general declines in the work population resulting from…
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A report from the PriceWaterhouseCoopers Health Research Institute discusses the importance of patient experience and satisfaction ratings and the difficulty consumers have in accessing information from various rating sources.
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An article in the current Health Affairs discusses the worldwide issue of how to limit health spending while at the same time improving people's health and the health care they…
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While we often focus our attention on the health care problems of the developed world, lower income countries have bigger issues, many of which are being addressed with the same…
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A report from the Health Foundation and Rand Europe examines how efforts to change the relationship between providers and patients may affect the quality of health care.
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The department of Health and Human Services has issued rules regarding the role and use of "navigators" in the health insurance exchanges called for by the reform act.
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Health care payment technology firm InstaMed puts out a report on 2012 trends in health care payments.
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Congress asked the Institute of Medicine to look into the issue of geographic variation in spending and what that variation might say about the value of health care. The IOM…
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There is a heated debate about whether electronic medical records will save the health system money or improve quality and what their economic impact on health care providers will be.…
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Continuing the great interest in explaining the geographic variation in health care spending, the National Center for Policy Analysis issues a report finding that there is variation but it may…
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The International Federation of Health Plans releases its latest comparison of prices for various services around the world, revealing as expected, that the US has the highest prices by far.
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There has a been a flurry of similar reports recently, but none should have more credibility than the one from the Society of Actuaries stating that yes, claim costs and…
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Managers, owners and investors in health care businesses should probably be preparing for a fair amount of chaos toward the end of this year and in 2014. The full implementation…
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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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