Health Care Costs – Page 65 – Healthy Skeptic

Dec 09 2010

Kaiser Health News

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

To address re-admissions, more than a dozen hospitals may join an experiment: Upend the traditional way they are paid and set in motion changes that could both boost patient care and reduce preventable admissions.

Dec 09 2010

Wall Street Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

But Mr. Issa said it may be time to consider costs as well as efficacy, as long as medical decisions are made by doctors, not by “bureaucrats” in government. “Republicans have to step back from the words ‘death panels,’ ” Mr. Issa said.

Dec 09 2010

HealthLeaders Media

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

For years, hospitals have complained of getting the short end of the stick on reimbursements. Come to find out, they were just blowing smoke.

Dec 09 2010

More on McAllen’s Costs

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments

One of the premises of the movement to constrain health spending is that there is a lot of wasteful care in some geographic areas. A notable New Yorker article last…

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Dec 08 2010

HealthLeaders Media

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

A controversial practice in which physicians self-refer patients for imaging tests with the doctors’ own equipment does not result in shorter length of illness

Dec 08 2010

Abandoned Prescriptions

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments

Prescriptions written by doctors and transmitted to pharmacies are not always picked up by patients. New research examines the factors that appear to be linked to, if not causative of,…

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Dec 07 2010

Kaiser Family Foundation

By Kevin Roche Research No Comments

KFF: States with prior approval authority over rates appear to be better positioned to negotiate reductions in rate requests filed by carriers

Dec 06 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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Family health insurance premiums for employer-sponsored plans rose 41% between 2003 and 2009, according to a study by The Commonwealth Fund

Dec 02 2010

Wall Street Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

If you were hoping that the new health-care reform law will address the issue of prescription-drug pricing, think again

Dec 02 2010

The Fiscal Times

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

The health care cuts proposed by President Barack Obama’s deficit commission would reach virtually every corner of society, making cost curbs in the new overhaul law look tame by comparison

Dec 01 2010

Health Care Prices

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments

A new survey of prices for common health care services in developed countries shows once again that unit prices in the United States are much higher than in other countries.…

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Dec 01 2010

HealthLeaders Media

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

If you thought the major obstacle in health care debt collection stemmed from an inability of most patients to pay their outstanding bills, particularly their deductibles and co-pays, you’d be wrong.

Nov 30 2010

New Evidence on Wellness Value

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Doubt continues to exist about whether wellness and prevention have net short or long-term cost savings. A new study indicates that a well-designed, comprehensive health program can save money, at…

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Nov 29 2010

New York Times

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Patients pay about $45 billion worth of health care costs with plastic. By 2015, that number could more than triple to an estimated $150 billion – and big finance companies and medical providers have taken note.

Nov 29 2010

Wall Street Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Spurred by incentives in the federal health-overhaul law, hospitals and doctors around the country are beginning to create new entities that aim to provide more efficient health care.

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