Research in Health Affairs explores the trend of physician practice acquisitions, which typically are too small to catch the eye of regulators.
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A study in Health Affairs finds that large health plans do negotiate lower prices from providers.
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The current issue of Health Affairs deals with market concentration in health care, which is clearly a leading, if not the leading cause of excessive pricing for private health plans.
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A study finds that most emergency room visits were not in fact avoidable.
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An article in the Wall Street Journal suggests that "smart medicine" will fix our cost and quality issues. I don't think so.
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Research in the American Journal of Managed Care finds that consumers don't use price transparency tools much.
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An analysis from TransUnion suggests that patients and providers are struggling with unpaid bills.
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A PriceWaterhouseCooper Health Research Institute report projects medical cost trend for 2018.
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A Rand Corporation report once again demonstrates how a relatively small proportion of patients, typically with multiple chronic diseases, are responsible for much of total health spending.
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A Robert Wood Johnson report contains misleading claims that the federal reform law helped reduce health spending.
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Research published in the journal Medical Care suggests that a hospital participating in quality improvement efforts doesn't have lower care costs than hospitals that don't.
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Willis Towers Watson issues results from a global survey of medical benefit trends.
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A new Statistical Brief from AHRQ reviews spending on common medical conditions.
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Research published in the Journal of Health Economics suggests that physicians who treat heart attacks most aggressively incur higher spending but better outcomes.
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A study in the American Journal of Managed Care examines whether high-cost patients are concentrated in certain hospitals or communities.
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