A study in the Journal of Health Economics examines medical utilization responses to health insurance policy design.
Read More
A study in JAMA Internal Medicine describes trends in drug manufacturer detailing of physicians.
Read More
CAHQ issues its annual index report on use of electronic transactions in health care, finding we still have a lot of room for progress.
Read More
A study in the American Journal of Managed Care examines the use of EHR data to predict hospitalization.
Read More
A new study examines whether physician preferences for certain types of patients may play a role in practice variation.
Read More
A Health Affairs article examines the source and size of out-of-network billings.
Read More
UnitedHealth Group gives us its perspective on the relative savings on beneficiaries in Medicare Advantage.
Read More
A paper from EBRI discusses differences in cost for the same cancer medication in different sites of service.
Read More
A paper presented at the American Society of Hematology describes early cost and utilization results for Medicare patients.
Read More
A new study finds that Medicare Advantage plans tend to send people to average quality hospitals.
Read More
About this Blog
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.
Apple Podcasts
Google Podcasts
Spotify
Overcast
PocketCasts
Radio Public
Stitcher
Anchor
RSS - Posts