Patient-centered medical homes, accountable care organizations, who can keep all the delivery innovations straight! Research summarized in an Annals of Internal Medicine article reviews the state of the evidence on…
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A Kaiser Family Foundation snapshot examines cost-sharing between employers and employees based on data from the KFF 2012 health benefit survey. In general public employees are getting a much better…
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The latest brief from the National Institute for Health Care Management describes facts about private health insurance, with a focus on what goes into the premiums charged by these companies.…
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Our penultimate Potpourri for 2012 is a festive blend of health data, including avoidance of health care due to costs, rates of expected spending increases in 2013, costs for younger…
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The reform law begins to really kick in for 2013, with many new taxes and regulations. Unpleasant surprises abound and an Oliver Wyman report for America's Health Insurance Plans examines…
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A new 2012 physicians compensation survey reveals interesting data about how much doctors work, what they are paid, what kinds of practices they are in and how they feel about…
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In this holiday season, it is a time for giving presents and our latest Potpourri presents you with many gifts of health information, including some positive news about an ACO…
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The Congressional Budget Office releases a presentation on how it calculates long-term projections fro Medicare and Medicaid spending. More than a little frightening, and the absence of serious bipartisan discussion…
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For reasons that are truly mysterious, the Medicare Advantage program has been controversial. New research published in Health Affairs shows that the program has better utilization and spending control than…
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One of the selling points for prescription drugs has been that their use often prevents use of more costly services, like hospitalizations. A new brief from the Congressional Budget Office…
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Our latest Potpourri captures the excitement of the holidays with scintillating items on certificate of need program effects on utilization, the public's views on health care costs and government's role…
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Medication non-adherence has many causes and is likely a serious quality issue. Capgemini, the consulting group, has released a report claiming that such non-adherence adds hundreds of billions of dollars…
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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is forever tinkering with reimbursement for various providers, usually not getting exactly the results it seeks. An example of this is given in…
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Another in our series of Potpourris, tasty, succulent morsels of health data food, including this week the effect of mammography screening, improving health and health costs, state costs to run…
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Another extensive research paper details the effects of provider consolidation and consequent market power on the health care industry in the United States, and specifically on the growth of health…
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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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