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Jan 15 2020

Administrative Costs in Canada and the US

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Another misleading piece of garbage on administrative costs in the US health system from the usual group of ideologues.
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Jan 14 2020

What Consumers Will Pay for a Broad Network Health Plan

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
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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Jan 13 2020

Bundled Payment Research

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A study in Health Affairs reviews the state of research of bundled payments.
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Jan 10 2020

Automated Clinical Decision Support

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A study finds marginal benefit from an embedded clinical decision support system in regard to medication use.
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Jan 09 2020

Intensive Management of Super-Utilizer Patients

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A program of intensive management of high-cost patients didn't appear to improve outcomes.
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Jan 08 2020

Public and Private Payer Hospital Rate Trends

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
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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Jan 07 2020

Medicare Spending Trends

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The Commonwealth Fund explores Medicare spending trends by age group.
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Jan 06 2020

Peer Influences on Diffusion of New Treatments

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
An article in JAMA Network Open gives some further insight into practice pattern decisions and diffusion of new treatments.
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Jan 03 2020

Hospital Quality and Consolidation

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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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Jan 02 2020

Health Spending in Minnesota

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Happy 2020. We start the year with a look at health spending in my home state of Minnesota.
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Kevin RocheThe 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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This is an outstanding report on total global drug spending and trends, with projections out to 2025.  It helps you understand this important area of health care, which does much...
June 1, 2021
The Office of the Actuary annual report on national health spending, covering 2018.
December 7, 2019
2019 Kaiser Family Foundation Employer Health Benefits Report
October 1, 2019
MedPAC 2019 Report to Congress
June 18, 2019

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December 2, 2025
Press Ganey, which provides market research for health plans and providers , is being purchased by health care survey firm Qualtrics for $6.75 billion.  Both companies claim this is all...
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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 through Roche Consulting, LLC. Mr. Roche is available to assist health care companies through consulting arrangements and may be reached at khroche@healthy-skeptic.com. © Roche Consulting, LLC. Terms of Use.

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