An Issue Brief from the Employee Benefits Research Institute explores the effect of high-deductible plans by worker income level.
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A survey released by Xerox finds that patients are much more likely than providers or health plans to believe that they (the patients) can manage their health and health care, but providers and payers are more likely to assume that patients are actively shopping for health care than patients are to actually shop. In addition, while almost all providers and payers say patients aren't delaying care for financial reasons, over 40% of consumers say they do.
https://www.news.xerox.com/news/Xerox-research-shows-health-professionals-patients-dividedHealth Sparq publishes a report of health care shopping behaviors.
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A TransAmerica Center for Health Studies Survey covers how Millennials approach health issues.
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Many very ill and expensive patients have surrogate decision-makers, who often struggle in interactions with doctors around what is best for the patient.
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A survey reported in Health Affairs finds that most Americans don't see the relationship between quality and price in health care.
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A Commonwealth Fund report examines trends in consumer cost-sharing for exchange plans.
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Accenture publishes an article revealing that hospitals that create better patient experience of care have higher profit margins.
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McKinsey issues results of a survey it conducted of exchange enrollees.
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Having a health services price transparency tool available for use by patients doesn't appear to lead to lower health spending, according to research in JAMA.
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A Kaiser Family Foundation brief demonstrates how much health care cost-sharing has increased for workers.
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A Health Affairs study provides interesting insight on how the public looks at evidence-based medicine.
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An article in the Employee Benefit Research Institute's Notes describes results from a survey of employees' views on health coverage.
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An analysis from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation analyzes factors underlying consumers' choices of plans on the insurance exchanges.
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A study in JMIR-mHealth suggests wide dispersion in the ratings even by expert reviewers of the qualities of health apps.
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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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