A new study finds that Medicare Advantage plans tend to send people to average quality hospitals.
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A review published by the Public Library of Science claims that research shows that a single-payer plan would reduce US health spending, which is simply not true under any realistic…
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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.
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Another misleading piece of garbage on administrative costs in the US health system from the usual group of ideologues.
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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.
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A study in Health Affairs reviews the state of research of bundled payments.
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A study finds marginal benefit from an embedded clinical decision support system in regard to medication use.
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A program of intensive management of high-cost patients didn't appear to improve outcomes.
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The gap between payments to hospitals by public payers like Medicaid and Medicare and private plans has surprisingly narrowed in recent years.
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The Commonwealth Fund explores Medicare spending trends by age group.
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An article in JAMA Network Open gives some further insight into practice pattern decisions and diffusion of new treatments.
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Hospital quality of care was more likely to remain the same or decline than improve following involvement in a merger or acquisition.
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Happy 2020. We start the year with a look at health spending in my home state of Minnesota.
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I don't do predictions anymore, but here are some issues that I think you can watch for in the coming year or years.
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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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