Health care payment technology firm InstaMed puts out a report on 2012 trends in health care payments.
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Congress asked the Institute of Medicine to look into the issue of geographic variation in spending and what that variation might say about the value of health care. The IOM…
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There is a heated debate about whether electronic medical records will save the health system money or improve quality and what their economic impact on health care providers will be.…
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Continuing the great interest in explaining the geographic variation in health care spending, the National Center for Policy Analysis issues a report finding that there is variation but it may…
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The International Federation of Health Plans releases its latest comparison of prices for various services around the world, revealing as expected, that the US has the highest prices by far.
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There has a been a flurry of similar reports recently, but none should have more credibility than the one from the Society of Actuaries stating that yes, claim costs and…
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The latest salvo in the hospital pricing war is found in the American Journal of Managed Care, which reveals significant above general inflation increases in the costs of hospital services.
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The most recent issue of Health Affairs focuses on health and wellness. One of the programs reported found that in a health system's employee population, hospitalizations were reduced but not…
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iCore, a unit of Magellan, presents its third Medical Pharmacy & Oncology Trend Report, which indicates that specialty pharmacy costs continue to grow very rapidly, despite increased management attention from…
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When the reform law was being sold to a dubious public, we were told that premiums would actually be lower. That is obviously not going to be the case, but…
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An article in Health Affairs discusses an alternative to patient engagement on health care decisions--using the findings of behavioral economics and pyschology to encourage patients to adopt a desired path…
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Adding to the controversy about Medicare Advantage payments, a Government Accounting Office report suggests that diagnoses coding excesses may be inflating payments.
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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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