MetLife’s Mature Market Institute does some excellent research in regard to aging the medical care and other needs of the elderly. Two new reports extend that tradition, describing long-term care costs and surveying adult day care services.
Research continues to accumulate suggesting that the patient-centered medical home can save money while improving care and patient satisfaction. A new report summarizes this evidence, but the applicability of the model across the entire system has yet to be demonstrated.
A new report sponsored by a unit of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation describes the state of workplace clinics and interviews a number of participants to identify trends, challenges and success factors.
Government spending to support and encourage greater use of information technology in health care has accelerated dramatically in the last two years. An AHRQ report describes several success stories relating to health improvement and cost savings from HIT.
The snow is raging here in Minneapolis, but nothing stops the delivery of our Potpourri, which includes discussion of paybacks on EHRs, the fate of dialysis patients, use of telecommunciations to aid drug adherence, cost savings from select pharmacy networks and hospital readmissions.
Personalized medicine sometimes gets lost in the debate over other major health care issues, but it is probably the single most significant development in the actual delivery of medical care and will be so for the next decade. A new report details reimbursement hurdles to growth of the field.
One of the premises of the movement to constrain health spending is that there is a lot of wasteful care in some geographic areas. A notable New Yorker article last year made McAllen Texas the poster child for this thesis, but new research suggests the issue may be more complex.
Prescriptions written by doctors and transmitted to pharmacies are not always picked up by patients. New research examines the factors that appear to be linked to, if not causative of, such prescription abandonment.
EBRI released results of its sixth annual survey on consumer engagement in health care, finding a steady increase in CDHP enrollment and continued trends of more cost-conscious and wellness-oriented behaviors among persons in those plans.
New research from the New England Healthcare Institute examines use of telemonitoring of ICU patients and finds that it produces good outcomes and could create substantial cost savings in the state of Massachusetts alone.
An article in Telemedicine and eHealth reviewed a number of technology based or assisted weight management programs to determine if they appeared effective and what the characteristics were of successful programs.
A new survey of prices for common health care services in developed countries shows once again that unit prices in the United States are much higher than in other countries. Another report shows that there is significant variability in prices within the US as well.
Doubt continues to exist about whether wellness and prevention have net short or long-term cost savings. A new study indicates that a well-designed, comprehensive health program can save money, at least in the near term, and may lower longer term cost trajectories.
Retainer-based medicine, in which patients pay physicians a flat periodic fee to cover a package of basic medical services, often referred to as a “concierge” practice, is reviewed in a MedPac report, to ascertain if has or might have a deleterious effect on access or costs for Medicare patients.
There you are, relaxing on a holiday and holiday weekend and for some reason you feel compelled to browse the internet and come across our Thanksgiving potpourri, hopefully not a turkey, but stuffed with edible data, including HHS’ final rule on MLRs; the AMAs survey on prior authorization; principles for ACOs, how to use research studies, Humana’s acquisition of Concentra and an explanation of why health care costs keep going up. Happy Thanksgiving!
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 [email protected].
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