Prime Therapeutics issues a press release about its drug trend for 2016.
Express Scripts offers up the first 2016 Drug Trend report, with forecasts for the future to boot.
Accenture publishes a new survey on the internet of health things.
A study in Health Affairs finds that lower-paid employees have different health care usage patterns and costs than do higher-paid ones.
The Altarum Institute issues a report on the impact of bundled payment methods on volume of services.
CMS’ Office of the Actuary’s new projections on health spending show above GDP growth as far as the eye can see.
A study at the Public Library of Science finds that use of pharmacogenomics in managing drug regimens can help reduce readmissions and ER use.
Researchers use an interesting approach to ascertain that hospital quality measures do appear to be associated with better patient outcomes.
Using long-term care hospitals as an example, researchers find that reimbursement methods designed to control costs may create other outcomes.
A paper at the National Bureau of Economic Research examines the effects of price-linked subsidies to aid in the purchase of health insurance.