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Jun 09 2014

Research in Health Affairs finds that ambulatory surgery centers take significantly less time per procedure than do hospital outpatient surgery centers, with lower costs and equal or better outcomes, suggesting that their use should be encouraged.

http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/33/5/764.abstract
May 20 2014

A study in JAMA Internal Medicine claims that CMS could save over $8 billion a year on Medicare spending if certain common items of "low-value" care were eliminated, including a number of screening and diagnostic tests.

http://archinte.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1868536
May 12 2014

Altarum Institute's March health price report (which tracks only the price component of health spending growth) shows a muted year-over-year increase of only 1.1%, indicating that utilization is the primary cause of the overall 7% spending growth.

http://altarum.org/sites/default/files/uploaded-related-files/CSHS-Price-Brief_May%202014_0.pdf
May 12 2014

The latest Altarum health spending report shows that in March, growth was 7.1% year-over-year, continuing an acceleration over the last few months.

http://altarum.org/sites/default/files/uploaded-related-files/CSHS-Spending-Brief_May%202014.pdf
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