The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality publishes the latest in a regular series of looks at the concentration of health spending, which continues to reveal that a relatively small…
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Early experience on the watered down exchanges suggests that they are not functioning well at this point, but like most complicated HIT projects, they may improve over time.
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A new report from the Institute of Medicine focuses on the quality of cancer care in the United States, finding serious reason for concern about quality and cost to consumers.
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A review by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality found little clear evidence of benefit from outpatient case management for adults with complex medical needs.
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While health spending growth appears to have moderated in recent years, but the Office of Actuary at CMS projects a pickup in the spending growth rate over the next ten…
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A report from the Government Accounting Office on duplicative information technology projects finds that many are health-related, likely leading to hundreds of millions in unnecessary spending.
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Research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association examines the effects of pay-for-performance incentives on quality of care in smaller physician offices that use EHRs.
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An Article in Health Affairs discusses the potential effect on the federal budget of health insurance premium increases leading employers to send more employees to the exchanges.
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Research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association finds that using individual physician incentives, but not practice-wide or combined incentives, appeared to improve hypertension control.
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The Kaiser Family Foundation releases an early look at the health insurance marketplace for 2014 in 17 states.
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Health insurance exchange firm bSwift issues its 2013 Wellness and Benefits Administration Benchmarking Study.
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One of the most fascinating aspects of the health spending problem is identifying on which patients and for what is all that money being spent. A new Agency for Healthcare…
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The Commonwealth Fund published an Issue Brief summarizing the views of 15 experts on hospital readmissions, who analyzed current efforts to reduce avoidable readmissions.
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One common quality improvement effort in recent years has been to speed up the time it takes to get heart attack victims to the hospital for interventions to increase survival.…
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A study published in Health Affairs finds that high-deductible plans differentially affect low-socioeconomic persons use of emergency care.
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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.