A PriceWaterhouseCooper Report finds that funding for life sciences companies seems to be lagging that for other industries, with potential positive and negative implications.
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A new brief from the Center for Studying Health System Change examines the results of early experience with a reference pricing model for expensive health care treatments.
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A paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research looks at the slowdown in health care spending, identifying three primary factors, but the authors are pessimistic about the enduring nature…
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Research published in Health Affairs examines the characteristics of Medicaid emergency room users and use.
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A Kaiser Family Foundation report summarizes Medicare Advantage offerings for 2014, noting trends in availability, benefits and cost.
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A Milliman report shows that the same cancer treatment costs far more in a hospital outpatient setting than it does in a physician's office.
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The IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics issues its Global Use of Medicines report, which gives current data and projections through 2017.
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A report from the Pew Research Center focuses on those Americans living with chronic disease, uncovering information about how they use the internet.
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Mercer's annual survey of employers regarding their health benefit plans suggests that significant changes in costs and benefits are likely in the next couple of years as the reform law…
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So who is happy with the reform law? Not physicians, who are waking up to a reality of lower reimbursement and narrow provider networks for plans insurers are selling on the exchanges. Payers say the changes are necessary to create competitive plans.
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