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.
A companion report to the annual Health Care Cost Insitute analysis of commercial health spending examines out-of-pocket spending for 2013, finding more woe for most consumers.
Research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association suggests that consumers who look at comparative price information have lower health spending.
The Health Care Cost Institute releases a report of cost trends for 2013 in employer-sponsored health insurance.
A HealthPocket study finds that exchange premiums were substantially higher for many enrollees in 2014 than they would have been in the individual market before reform.
Happy Halloween!! A scary item for physicians is apparently Medicare’s quality reporting programs, according to an MGMA survey.
According to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association finds that converting a hospital to for-profit status did not affect quality measures and financial margins improved.
The current issue of Health Affairs carries several articles on specialty drugs, which have become the priority area for cost-control efforts for most health plans.
Research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association reveals that less physician competition results in higher prices, exactly as traditional economics would predict.