The Health Care Cost Institute releases a report on spending and utilization in the employer-based health care coverage market for 2011. Spending continues to rise faster than inflation or economic…
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The Center for Public Integrity has pointed out what was an obvious unintended consequence of greater use of electronic health records--providers will use the additional clinical information to feed billing…
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Yet another report on hospital readmission work, this one from the Northeast Business Group on Health. Basically a puff piece full of obvious recommendations and bland nostrums, it purports to…
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Bundled payments are designed to change the incentives for providers so that they manage patient care in a more cost-effective manner, hopefully without negatively affecting quality. A report from the…
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The Government Accounting Office weighs in on the ongoing controversy over the effects of the Affordable Care Act on employment-based health insurance, reviewing a number of microsimulation models and employer…
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Yet another survey of the employer market, this one from Aon Hewitt, which also reflects views of employees covered under their companies' health plans. Aon Hewitt finds that employers are…
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We, among many others, have been harsh critics of Medicare's misguided hospital readmissions penalty program, which begins this year. MedPAC has weighed in with its views on how to "refine"…
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The Kaiser Family Foundation published its annual survey on Employer Health Benefits. While the rate of growth in both single and family health insurance premiums has slowed, it is still…
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Another brilliant edition of our Potpourri, focusing on individual health insurance rate reform, variation in traumatic care costs, genetic counseling and diabetes, small business and health care costs and savings…
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Research based on data from UnitedHealth Group's commercial health plans finds wide variation in episode of care costs across both selected procedures and chronic diseases. The research also showed that…
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The Employee Benefit Research Institute has released a survey on consumers attitudes toward their health care coverage. Among three types of coverage, traditional, high deductible with no savings account and…
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A study released by a private vendor evaluates wellness and benefit administration benchmarks in 2012.
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The Institute of Medicine released a report regarding supposed unnecessary spending on health care in the United States and potential ways to remedy that problem, largely through use of health…
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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.