The Government Accounting Office reviews drug spending for DOD, Medicare and Medicaid; finding that Medicaid generally paid the lowest prices, in some cases substantially lower.
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A report from the Massachusetts Association of Health Plans summarizes what has been learned in the state about its ongoing growth in health spending.
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The latest issue of Health Affairs focuses on "big data" and analytics, but the content reflects how little this latest hot initiative has actually achieved.
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Research published in Health Affairs explores the question of whether the now-widespread use of electronic medical records is facilitating upcoding by hospitals, leading to higher Medicare reimbursements.
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The latest Altarum Institute data on health spending and price growth show some acceleration in the months of April and May.
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Medical homes have been implemented for long enough that research is beginning to examine the extent to which they actually improve quality or lower costs. Research published in Health Affairs…
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A Statistical Brief from AHRQ examines out-of-pocket health spending by various categories of Americans.
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A new study reported in Health Affairs examines the role patients' preferences for care plays in geographic health spending variation.
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In the we are being told what we already know, but when are we going to do something about it department, a report from NIHCR finds that hospital outpatient departments…
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PriceWaterhouseCooper's Health Research institute release a projection on medical trend projections for employer-based health plans for 2015, showing a continued significant cost rise, which likely will translate to higher premiums…
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Something very odd is going on with health spending. Today’s significant downward revision to the first quarter GDP number is largely due to a massive rewrite of the contribution from health spending, from a 9% jump to an actual decrease. Who knows what is going on at the BEA, which produces the numbers, but an explanation would be nice.
AdvaMed, a trade association for the medical device industry, put out a paper claiming that medical devices have played no role in the increase in health care spending.
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Two articles in Health Affairs analyze components of the spending trend in health care.
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We know medical spending tends to grow rapidly in the United States--what is happening in the rest of the world? A Towers Watson survey attempts to answer that question.
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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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