Express Scripts' 2013 Drug Trend Report provides the usual insight on medication utilization and cost from one of the countries largest pharmacy benefit managers.
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A paper from the PWC Health Research Institute hypothesizes that new entrants will totally overturn the United States' Health Care System. Doesn't really seem very likely.
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A paper from the Bureau of Economic Analysis compares the use of survey and claims data to measure health spending for persons with employer-sponsored health insurance.
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Preventing hospital readmissions requires identifying the most likely patients who will be readmitted. A study in the BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making journal finds that software is no better…
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A survey and report from Rand gives estimates on who has recently enrolled in what forms of health insurance, which suggests that most of the new enrollment is actually due…
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Several articles and a commentary in the current issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association focus on treatment guidelines for hypertension and lipid level issues, indicating that the…
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A paper from the Bureau of Economic Analysis finds that consolidation in the physician marketplace leads to higher service prices for commercial health plans, but unlike most markets, these higher…
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Time for another brief review of the "progress" of the federal health "reform" law, as the initial period of implementation has supposedly passed.
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The second employee survey of the week comes from Towers Watson. It also focuses on retirement and health care issues.
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A brief from the Employee Benefits Research Institute examines use of prescription drugs by enrollees in a high-deductible insurance plan, finding a greater percentage of generic prescriptions but in the…
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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.