A Rand Corporation report details payment differences for hospital services among private and public payers.
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Payment facilitator InstaMed releases its ninth annual survey on trends in health care payments.
An analysis from the Health Care Cost Initiative demonstrates the cost-raising effect of moving services to hospital outpatient departments.
Yawn, another study in Health Affairs showing that hospital prices are an issue for containing health spending.
A truly lightweight report from the Urban Institute finds lower per enrollee spending growth for government programs than private health plans.
A blog post from the Centre for Economic Policy Research looks at 200 years of health care and health care spending.
Cognitive impairment and other factors impact a patient’s cost and may affect Medicare outpatient reimbursement, according to research in JAMA Internal Medicine.
A study in Health Affairs using Health Care Cost Institute data explores ten years of employer-sponsored health plan spending and utilization data.
A study in the American Journal of Managed Care finds that a high-touch primary care group delivers better outcomes for Medicare beneficiaries.
The incidence of Alzheimer’s and other dementias is projected to keep rising, becoming an even bigger source of spending pressure.
A study in JAMA Network suggests that there is lower health spending associated with greater well-being among Medicare recipients.
Prominent health economist Victor Fuchs discusses the “efficiency” of the US health care system.
PriceWaterHouseCooper releases its 2019 medical trend estimates for employer health plans.
The Bureau of Economic Analysis has released updated analyses of health spending by disease or medical condition.
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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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