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.
A new report from the Institute of Medicine focuses on the quality of cancer care in the United States, finding serious reason for concern about quality and cost to consumers.
A review by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality found little clear evidence of benefit from outpatient case management for adults with complex medical needs.
While health spending growth appears to have moderated in recent years, but the Office of Actuary at CMS projects a pickup in the spending growth rate over the next ten years.
A report from the Government Accounting Office on duplicative information technology projects finds that many are health-related, likely leading to hundreds of millions in unnecessary spending.
Research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association examines the effects of pay-for-performance incentives on quality of care in smaller physician offices that use EHRs.
An Article in Health Affairs discusses the potential effect on the federal budget of health insurance premium increases leading employers to send more employees to the exchanges.