Medicare risk-based health plans, including the current incarnation of Medicare Advantage plans, have been around for quite a while and a Kaiser Family Foundation report summarizes what we know about their performance relative to traditional Medicare.
Aon Hewitt releases its estimate of medical cost trends for employer-based health insurance for 2014 and looking into 2015.
A survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation indicates that many Americans struggle to understand some basic health insurance concepts.
The second open enrollment on the public health insurance exchanges began on Saturday so seems a propitious time to review the effects of the reform law.
An article in the Journal of the American Medical Association finds that self-care by patients with high blood pressure can have good outcomes.
Recently we looked at the newest AHRQ Statistical Briefs on Concentration of Health Spending. Today we look at another Statistical Brief showing which diagnoses are related to those high-spending individuals.
The 340B drug pricing program is under assault for misuse. Two recent Health Affairs studies examined dispensing patterns in 340B pharmacy programs and who is benefiting.
Benefits firm Segal Group has released its projections of 2015 health plan cost trend, anticipating variable but significant health spending growth.
A study in the New England Journal of Medicine looks at how Medicare beneficiaries assigned to ACOs view their care.
Blue Cross’ global payment system in Massachusetts appears to be saving a small amount of money and improving quality a few years after implementation.