Oh boy, another bogus study on "waste" in our health system.
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A study in Health Affairs looks at how greater price transparency might aid in value-based purchasing.
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An Axios post gives a clear example of the abusive pricing of non-profit hospital systems.
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A study in Health Services Research illustrates why it may not be a good idea to have physicians on the committees that determine their compensation.
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A Journal of Health Economics study looks at health care expenditures in old age and near death.
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A new study finds that using private health plans for Medicaid benefit provision improves quality but doesn't lower spending.
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A new paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research explores whether on a quality of outcomes basis, costs for health care treatment are actually declining.
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An analysis from the Integrated Healthcare Association comparing provider network types finds that ACOs performed well in controlling costs.
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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.
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A study from Spain in Health Service Research finds that stratifying patients with multimorbidities using a common risk scoring tool, and applying a comprehensive care intervention to the higher risk patients, reduced hospitalizations, but does not give any information on whether the intervention was cost effective, which I doubt since only 9% of hospitalizations were avoided and these interventions are quite expensive.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1475-6773.13094An analysis from the Health Care Cost Initiative demonstrates the cost-raising effect of moving services to hospital outpatient departments.
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Yawn, another study in Health Affairs showing that hospital prices are an issue for containing health spending.
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A truly lightweight report from the Urban Institute finds lower per enrollee spending growth for government programs than private health plans.
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A blog post from the Centre for Economic Policy Research looks at 200 years of health care and health care spending.
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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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