The annual Kaiser survey of employer health plans is out, with loads of details on coverage, benefit design and other trends.
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The National Academy of Social Insurance releases its 17th annual report on workers' compensation, covering data through 2012, and confirming the ongoing growth in medical costs for this coverage.
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The PriceWaterhouseCooper Health Research Institute releases a report on the rise of retail health coverage, primarily through the public and private insurance exchanges.
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A Government Accounting Office Report summarizes the research on which preventive services appear to be either cost-effective or cost-saving.
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Randomized clinical trials theoretically are the most trustworthy form of research, but an article in JAMA finds that reanalyses of data from such trials often comes to a different conclusion…
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A new paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research examines a narrow network design for the Massachusetts state employees plan.
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A Business Roundtable report discusses innovation in the market for private health care benefits.
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The CMS Office of the Actuary gives its early estimate of 2013 spending, along with projections for the next decade, with an expectation for higher growth in the years ahead.
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A study in Health Affairs analyzes hospital admissions and Readmissions for patients covered by Medicaid.
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A brief from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality looks at trends in health care spending for the elderly.
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If you think that state employees have gold-plated health coverage, you are right according to a study from Pew and the MacArthur Foundation.
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Before ACOs, CMS ran the Medicare Physician Group Practice demonstration, which showed minor cost savings and quality improvements.
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E-prescribing plus formulary decision support did not have a significant effect on medication non-adherence, according to a new paper.
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Research published in Health Affairs finds that giving patients comparative cost information for MRI services led to reduced spending and more intense price competition among providers.
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A program to provide home-based primary care for Medicare recipients resulted in lower spending, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.
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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.