Research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association examines the effects of pay-for-performance incentives on quality of care in smaller physician offices that use EHRs.
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An Article in Health Affairs discusses the potential effect on the federal budget of health insurance premium increases leading employers to send more employees to the exchanges.
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Research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association finds that using individual physician incentives, but not practice-wide or combined incentives, appeared to improve hypertension control.
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The Kaiser Family Foundation releases an early look at the health insurance marketplace for 2014 in 17 states.
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Health insurance exchange firm bSwift issues its 2013 Wellness and Benefits Administration Benchmarking Study.
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One of the most fascinating aspects of the health spending problem is identifying on which patients and for what is all that money being spent. A new Agency for Healthcare…
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The Commonwealth Fund published an Issue Brief summarizing the views of 15 experts on hospital readmissions, who analyzed current efforts to reduce avoidable readmissions.
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One common quality improvement effort in recent years has been to speed up the time it takes to get heart attack victims to the hospital for interventions to increase survival.…
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A study published in Health Affairs finds that high-deductible plans differentially affect low-socioeconomic persons use of emergency care.
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The latest report from Mark Farrah Associates examines recent results for health plans, showing moderate overall growth.
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An analysis by HealthPocket suggests that many consumers may benefit from looking for insurance outside the exchanges mandated by the reform law.
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A report from the Center for Studying Health System Change looked at hospital prices in 13 markets finding that commercial rates vary widely and are tied to market power.
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A Rand report examines the likely effect on health insurance premiums of full implementation of the reform law, finding that changes may not be as great, at least in some…
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Research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association finds that it cost less and quality was as good for Medicare beneficiaries who were cared for in accountable care-type…
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The National Business Group on Health annual survey finds that large companies are planning for around a 7% increase in health benefit costs in 2014.
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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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