Change Healthcare releases results of its ninth annual survey of the health care industry.
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A Mark Farrah Associates analysis of Medicare Advantage membership after the annual open enrollment period suggests that the rich basically got richer.
A CBO report looks at specialty drug spending and price trends in Medicare and Medicaid.
There isn’t as much evidence to support some care guidelines as you might think, according to research in JAMA.
Further summarization of MedPAC’s annual recommendations to Congress on Medicare.
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission issues its annual report to Congress, mostly regarding adequacy of reimbursement for various providers.
New research finds that interventions to increase high-value preventive care may also lead to more low-value care.
Research carried in Health Affairs uncovers the effects of paying patients to choose less expensive treatment options.
An “expose” in Fortune tells use what we already knew–electronic medical records haven’t lived up to the hype and create lots of problems.
A survey in Health Affairs looks at health behaviors of high-deductible plan consumers.
The Employee Benefits Research Institute has a brief on the future of employer-sponsored health coverage, given various proposals to create Medicare-for-all or otherwise modify the health payment system.
A Health Affairs article analyzes a dip in medical spending growth for the Medicare population from 1999 to 2012.
Research published in JAMA Internal Medicine looks at reasons for Medicare Advantage disenrollment.
Express Scripts provides us with the first of the big PBM drug spending trend reports.
Two studies in JAMA show modest or no improvement from intensive interventions around diet and weight management for overweight, depressed patients.
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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.