Health Care Costs – Page 63 – Healthy Skeptic

Jan 25 2011

Boston Globe

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

The chief executive of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, the state’s largest health insurer, is calling on hospitals and doctors to step up efforts to contain health care costs

Jan 25 2011

HealthLeaders Media

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

The United States will spend at least $158 billion to treat cancer in 2020 – an increase of 27% over 2010, and expensive new tools for diagnoses, treatment, and follow-up could bump the price up to $207 billion

Jan 25 2011

Bloomberg

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

The medical bill for Americans with heart disease is expected to triple in the next two decades, increasing to $818 billion in 2030 as the population ages

Jan 21 2011

HealthLeaders Media

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

The average per capita cost of healthcare services covered by commercial health plans and Medicare programs rose 6.27% in the 12 months ending in November 2010

Jan 20 2011

HealthLeaders Media

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Employer-provided health insurance costs will increase by 10.5% around the world this year, a higher percentage than in each of the past two years, says a report by Towers Watson

Jan 19 2011

One Perspective on Health Care’s Future

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments

CSC put out a report giving its vision of the future of health care, with a particular focus on how emerging technologies may reshape wellness, prevention, early disease detection, treatment…

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Jan 18 2011

MedPAC Report on Regional Service Use Variation

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments

We have reported several times on geographic variation in health spending, primarily in regard to Medicare beneficiaries, MEdPAC released a new brief that focuses on variation in use as opposed…

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Jan 17 2011

MedPAC’s Medicare Advantage Comments.

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments

MedPAC weighs in unasked on some proposed changes to the Medicare Advantage program; objecting to CMS' intent to limit benefit design flexibility on home health care and to CMS's proposed…

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Jan 13 2011

stateline.org

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

As a new power dynamic takes hold in Washington, one thing is clear for cash-strapped states: Whether they think of federal aid money as an essential economic boost or a wasteful bailout, the help is over.

Jan 13 2011

2009 Health Spending

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments

The initial report on 2009 national health expenditures is profiled in Health Affairs. The recession had a notable impact in slowing utilization and overall spending, particularly for consumers paying out-of-pocket,…

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Jan 12 2011

Wall Street Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Gov. Andrew Cuomo says he wants to redesign and shrink the state’s Medicaid program by copying a cost-cutting model used in Wisconsin. A review of Wisconsin’s efforts to contain Medicaid spending, however, shows little evidence of savings.

Jan 11 2011

Cost-Sharing and Outcomes

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments

Cost-sharing by consumers is an issue of the greatest importance in an era of increasing premium share, high deductibles, and coinsurance. A new report looks at the potential health consequences…

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Jan 07 2011

Los Angeles Times

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Blue Shield of California seeks rate hikes of as much as 59% for individuals

Jan 06 2011

Bloomberg

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

U.S. government spending on Medicaid and Medicare rose almost six times faster than insurance company expenditures in 2009 from the prior year as the recession pushed more Americans onto public assistance.

Jan 06 2011

New York Times

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Total national health spending grew by 4 percent in 2009, the slowest rate of increase in 50 years, as people lost their jobs, lost health insurance and deferred medical care

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