A great deal of health care expense is associated patients who are incapable of making decisions about their care. A New England Journal of Medicine perspective discusses how to handle…
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A Kaiser Family Foundation brief finds that Medicare patients continue to have generally good access to physicians.
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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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The Healthy Skeptic is a website about the health care system, and is written by Kevin Roche, who has many years of experience working in the health industry. Mr. Roche is available to assist health care companies through consulting arrangements through Roche Consulting, LLC and may be reached at khroche@healthy-skeptic.com.