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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Research published in JAMA Internal Medicine finds that continuity of care for Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries seems to reduce utilization and spending.
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It is employee survey week!! First we look at results from a survey Mercer did of workers regarding retirement, health benefit and other matters.
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An article in Health Services Research examines how hospitals respond to Medicare's lowering of reimbursement, finding that generally they lower their costs of providing service over time.
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A Statistical Brief from the Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality describes characteristics of employment-based health insurance in 2012, based on Medical Expenditure Panel Survey data.
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A new report from the Government Accounting Office gives details on the spread of Medicaid spending across all its beneficiaries, finding that, as for other payers, a relatively small set…
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An Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality brief details inpatient hospital use in 2011 and trends since 1997.
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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.
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