Research published in the New England Journal of Medicine examines the link, if any, between hospital readmission rates after surgery and overall hospital quality for surgeries.
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A study in the Journal of the American Medical Association finds that surveillance bias can undermine the validity of certain hospital quality measures.
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All the attention focused on the problems with the health insurance exchanges created by the reform law has made for little scrutiny of other aspects of it, which are equally…
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Research published in Health Affairs suggests that the type of insurance a patient has may affect the quality of care they receive in a hospital.
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A survey published in the JAMA Internal Medicine reports on hospital chief executive officer compensation revealing variable but large salaries at supposedly non-profit institutions.
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The Health Care Cost Institute, a consortium of payer data sources, released its report on health care costs and utilization for 2012.
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A survey of health care CEO severance packages reveals one reason why health spending may be growing too fast and this is just the tip of the iceberg on executive…
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Medicare reimbursement has been problematic for hospitals, as growth in payments has been very slow and in some cases, reduced. A study in Health Services Research looks at hospital responses…
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Two articles in Health Affairs discuss the potential impact of Americans living longer on health spending.
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The Health & Human Services Office of Inspector General found that many state Medicaid programs are not taking full advantage of provisions that could lower their drug spending.
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An article in Health Management, Policy and Innovation looks at increases in hospital prices, finding that much of the rise is due to increases in the cost of providing care.
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A study published in Health Affairs examines variation in payments by private health plans to physicians for common services.
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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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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.