Research in Health Affairs explores the trend of physician practice acquisitions, which typically are too small to catch the eye of regulators.
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A study in Health Affairs finds that large health plans do negotiate lower prices from providers.
The current issue of Health Affairs deals with market concentration in health care, which is clearly a leading, if not the leading cause of excessive pricing for private health plans.
A study finds that most emergency room visits were not in fact avoidable.
An article in the Wall Street Journal suggests that “smart medicine” will fix our cost and quality issues. I don’t think so.
Research in the American Journal of Managed Care finds that consumers don’t use price transparency tools much.
An analysis from TransUnion suggests that patients and providers are struggling with unpaid bills.
A PriceWaterhouseCooper Health Research Institute report projects medical cost trend for 2018.
A Rand Corporation report once again demonstrates how a relatively small proportion of patients, typically with multiple chronic diseases, are responsible for much of total health spending.
A Robert Wood Johnson report contains misleading claims that the federal reform law helped reduce health spending.
Research published in the journal Medical Care suggests that a hospital participating in quality improvement efforts doesn’t have lower care costs than hospitals that don’t.
Willis Towers Watson issues results from a global survey of medical benefit trends.
A new Statistical Brief from AHRQ reviews spending on common medical conditions.
Research published in the Journal of Health Economics suggests that physicians who treat heart attacks most aggressively incur higher spending but better outcomes.
A study in the American Journal of Managed Care examines whether high-cost patients are concentrated in certain hospitals or communities.
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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.