Yet another piece of research, this one in the Journal of the American Medical Association, finds finds at best a very weak relationship between readmission rates and mortality.
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Medical spending growth has been relatively quiescent for the last few years. Especially as full implementation of the reform law nears, there is great anxiety about whether that slow growth can or will continue. A Mark Farrah Associates report gives some insight on the question.
Telemedicine or telehealth has the potential to bring quality health care resources to patients in an efficient manner, but like many health care innovations, has gotten off to a slower start that many predicted. A Commonwealth Fund report on remote patient monitoring describes lessons from early adopters.
The Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System issued a report called “Confronting Costs, Stabilizing U.S. Health Spending While Moving Toward a High Performance Health Care System”, which just about says it all!
Many large employers may consider shifting more employees to part-time status as a result of the implementation of the reform law, according to a survey by ADP, and they may take other actions to minimize their costs under the law.
Most people want to die at home, but few do. A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association examines changes in place of death and use of hospice care over the last decade for Medicare beneficiaries.
Like many large industries, health care has a lot of transactional activity–mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, buy-outs, etc. These are usually predicated on the creation of significant benefits for the surviving entity. A Deloitte paper looks at whether such deals in the health plan sector have delivered the promised value.
A study in the American Journal of Managed Care looks at the effect on hospital utilization for patients who were care for in one of the country’s leading concierge practices.
A study from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Office of the Actuary looks at characteristics of Medicare beneficiaries who disenroll from Medicare Advantage and their spending patterns following disenrollment.
The Journal of the American Medical Association published an issue largely devoted to studies of hospital readmissions, looking both at patterns and potential causes and programs that might help reduce preventable readmissions.
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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 [email protected].
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