A survey published in the JAMA Internal Medicine reports on hospital chief executive officer compensation revealing variable but large salaries at supposedly non-profit institutions.
The Health Care Cost Institute, a consortium of payer data sources, released its report on health care costs and utilization for 2012.
A survey of health care CEO severance packages reveals one reason why health spending may be growing too fast and this is just the tip of the iceberg on executive compensation.
Medicare reimbursement has been problematic for hospitals, as growth in payments has been very slow and in some cases, reduced. A study in Health Services Research looks at hospital responses to inadequate payments.
Two articles in Health Affairs discuss the potential impact of Americans living longer on health spending.
The Health & Human Services Office of Inspector General found that many state Medicaid programs are not taking full advantage of provisions that could lower their drug spending.
An article in Health Management, Policy and Innovation looks at increases in hospital prices, finding that much of the rise is due to increases in the cost of providing care.
A study published in Health Affairs examines variation in payments by private health plans to physicians for common services.
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality publishes the latest in a regular series of looks at the concentration of health spending, which continues to reveal that a relatively small part of the population accounts for a huge percent of overall expenses.
Early experience on the watered down exchanges suggests that they are not functioning well at this point, but like most complicated HIT projects, they may improve over time.