A study in Health Affairs examines the impact of decision aids on surgery decisions for hip or knee issues.
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The National Venture Capital Association and Pitchbook give us an early read on venture capital activities in 2019.
Another misleading piece of garbage on administrative costs in the US health system from the usual group of ideologues.
A study in the Journal of Health Economics finds that consumers will pay a fair amount more to be in a broad network health plan.
A study in Health Affairs reviews the state of research of bundled payments.
A study finds marginal benefit from an embedded clinical decision support system in regard to medication use.
A program of intensive management of high-cost patients didn’t appear to improve outcomes.
The gap between payments to hospitals by public payers like Medicaid and Medicare and private plans has surprisingly narrowed in recent years.
The Commonwealth Fund explores Medicare spending trends by age group.
An article in JAMA Network Open gives some further insight into practice pattern decisions and diffusion of new treatments.
Hospital quality of care was more likely to remain the same or decline than improve following involvement in a merger or acquisition.
Happy 2020. We start the year with a look at health spending in my home state of Minnesota.
I don’t do predictions anymore, but here are some issues that I think you can watch for in the coming year or years.
What the heck happened in health care during the last decade? You get it all here in three minutes or less.
Every year I use the holidays to express some sentiment about enjoying family, friends and taking a break from the often-hectic and harrying pace of our lives, and I mean those sentiments very sincerely. While we may not like to think about it, we each have only a limited time in our lives. That should impel a certain seriousness in understanding what makes a real difference in our happiness and satisfaction. The comfort of meaningful relationships with others should be at the top of that list. So I hope all of you find dedicated and ample time for those relationships. And enjoy the relative economic security and abundance we enjoy in this country; it doesn’t happen by accident and it isn’t present everywhere around the world.
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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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