The Government Accounting Office examined various interventions designed to improve the quality of health care and/or lower costs and analyzed the strength of the evidence supporting the effect of the…
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Projections of national health expenditures through 2010 show a continued relentless upward trend, at a rate faster than GDP growth; with spending reaching 20% of GDP by the end of…
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A recent report from the Commonwealth Fund describes the status of plans to have accountable care organizations and other provider systems take on financial risk for their patients, finding that…
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A lot of the work on geographic variation in spending has been done on the Medicare population. New research published in Health Affairs examines variation in Medicaid spending for the…
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Research published in the New England Journal of Medicine examines early results from the Massachusetts Blue Cross plan's global budgeting program, finding very modest health spending reductions and small changes…
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An AHRQ Statistical Brief looks at the most costly health conditions for 2008. They are about what you would expect, with heart disease and cancer leading the way. Women and…
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A recent report from the NIHCM details national spending, showing that a few patients account for a lot of costs and that hospitals are the largest source of spending growth.…
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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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