The Bureau of Economic Analysis adds to the literature on understanding geographic variation in health care spending by attempting to understand how much may be due to price or to…
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Every year the International Foundation of Health Plans issues a report comparing pricing on common treatments across the developed world and illustrating that the United States has more of a…
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An article in Health Affairs examines whether advance directives are associated with less aggressive end-of-life care for people with various forms of dementia.
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Medscape has put out a report on physician compensation for 2014.
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The IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics releases a report on health care spending and its relation to prescription drug use, finding an acceleration in the growth rate.
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The Congressional Budget Office has issued revised projections on the cost and other impacts of the health reform law.
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ADP manages payroll and some aspects of benefit administration for a very large number of companies, so it has access to a lot of useful data. Some of this is…
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Express Scripts' 2013 Drug Trend Report provides the usual insight on medication utilization and cost from one of the countries largest pharmacy benefit managers.
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A paper from the PWC Health Research Institute hypothesizes that new entrants will totally overturn the United States' Health Care System. Doesn't really seem very likely.
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A paper from the Bureau of Economic Analysis compares the use of survey and claims data to measure health spending for persons with employer-sponsored health insurance.
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Preventing hospital readmissions requires identifying the most likely patients who will be readmitted. A study in the BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making journal finds that software is no better…
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A survey and report from Rand gives estimates on who has recently enrolled in what forms of health insurance, which suggests that most of the new enrollment is actually due…
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Several articles and a commentary in the current issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association focus on treatment guidelines for hypertension and lipid level issues, indicating that the…
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A paper from the Bureau of Economic Analysis finds that consolidation in the physician marketplace leads to higher service prices for commercial health plans, but unlike most markets, these higher…
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Time for another brief review of the "progress" of the federal health "reform" law, as the initial period of implementation has supposedly passed.
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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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