A physician writes an article in the American Journal of Medicine excoriating non-profit hospitals for their pricing and compensation practices.
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A new AHRQ report is released on one of my favorite topics, where is health spending concentrated.
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An interesting think piece from L.E.K Consulting suggests that consumerism is not the solution to rising health spending.
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In a shocking, just shocking finding, further research confirms that if you give people free health care, they will use a lot of it.
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A study published in JAMA finds that a value-driven program at the University of Utah Health Care system improved quality and lowered costs.
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A report from the Health Care Cost Institute reveals that consumers in high deductible plans have greater out-of-pocket spending, as would be expected.
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A study in JAMA Internal Medicine examines the prevalence of low-value services in a commercial health plan.
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A brief from the Commonwealth Foundation examines the characteristics of high-cost patients.
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A study carried in the Journal of the Americal Medical Association Internal Medicine finds that use of reference pricing reduced spending on lab tests.
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The annual price comparison among developed countries released by the International Federation of Health Plans is out.
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The annual review of national health expenditures by the Office of the Actuary is out and 2015 was another year of growth above GDP.
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The American Health Policy Institute publishes a paper on dealing with high-cost patients.
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A grand list of researchers evaluate the first two years of Medicare's comprehensive primary care initiative.
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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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