Another study from the Employee Benefits Research Institute sheds light on the important question of whether HSA/High Deductible plans affect use of preventive services.
CMS’ early experience with ACOs continues to be mixed, with quality seeming to improve but limited if any savings.
The Brookings Institution takes a crack at the issue of geographic variation in health spending, finding that on an adjusted, statewide basis, there is likely much less variation than the Dartmouth Atlas suggests.
The second installment of a review of the Kaiser summary of employer-based health plans focuses on who is offering benefits, wellness and other trends.
The annual Kaiser survey of employer health plans is out, with loads of details on coverage, benefit design and other trends.
The National Academy of Social Insurance releases its 17th annual report on workers’ compensation, covering data through 2012, and confirming the ongoing growth in medical costs for this coverage.
The PriceWaterhouseCooper Health Research Institute releases a report on the rise of retail health coverage, primarily through the public and private insurance exchanges.
A Government Accounting Office Report summarizes the research on which preventive services appear to be either cost-effective or cost-saving.
Randomized clinical trials theoretically are the most trustworthy form of research, but an article in JAMA finds that reanalyses of data from such trials often comes to a different conclusion than the original analysis.
A new paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research examines a narrow network design for the Massachusetts state employees plan.