A Health Affairs article reports that quality measure collection and reporting activities impose substantial costs on physician practices.
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Research carried by the American Journal of Managed Care focuses on different prices paid for the same service at various sites of care.
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CVS Health releases its initial 2015 Trend Report, suggesting that spending increases for medications have moderated.
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A report from America's Health Insurance Plans finds that commercial health plans often pay hospitals much more than Medicare for the same service.
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From my home state of Minnesota comes a report revealing the shocking fact that people with chronic conditions have high health spending, doh!!
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2016 has started out with a thud in the equity markets and that may reflect what is happening in our economy. Health care costs play a role.
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An article in the New England Journal of Medicine describes high-cost patients across payer types.
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Research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association compares data across seven developed countries regarding care for cancer patients who are dying.
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The latest projections from the Congressional Budget Office contain health spending information that is more than a little frightening.
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A Massachusetts report discusses hospital pricing in the state.
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The latest Altarum Institute spending briefs show continued increased spending growth in 2015.
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An AonHewitt medical trend report anticipates a huge jump in health costs around the globe for 2016.
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An article in Health Affairs contains an analysis from the Bureau of Economic Analysis on causes of the slower health spending growth in the first decade of this century.
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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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