Health Care Costs – Page 84 – Healthy Skeptic

Mar 10 2010

New York Times

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Which matters more: what the plan does, or what it fails to do? It’s a tough call, and the answer depends on what you see as the alternative

Mar 10 2010

Hospital Costs and Quality

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Following up on similar research, an article delves into the relationship between hospital costs and quality, finding inconsistent associations between high cost and better quality. It does not appear that…

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Mar 09 2010

New York Times

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At the heart of Obama’s drive to rein in health costs is a proposal for federal review and regulation of health insurance premiums, with a new agency empowered to block excessive rate increases.

Mar 09 2010

Washington Post

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In the 1980s hospital administrators were required to bundle charges into DRGs – physician charges, however, are paid separately for each visit they make to a hospital patient

Mar 09 2010

Bloomberg

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Obama told an audience outside Philadelphia yesterday that insurers have calculated that higher premiums can more than make up for the loss of customers who can’t afford coverage

Mar 04 2010

Bloomberg

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Backed by employer medical insurance, couple fights cancer – how expensive? $618,616, two- thirds of it for the final 24 months, much of it for treatments that no one can say helped extend his life

Mar 04 2010

Bloomberg

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Hospital billings for a scan of the chest ranged from $550 in April 2001 in Portland to $3,232 in 2006 and 2007 at a hospital in Philadelphia

Mar 04 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Rep. Ryan: the claim that the health plan will cost “about $100 billion per year” is unlikely – it is far more probable deficits are $460 billion over the first 10 years, and $1.4 trillion over the next 10

Mar 02 2010

New York Times

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Adding an EKG would save 2.06 more life-years per 1,000 athletes at cost of $89 per athlete – or $42,900 per life-year saved (by comparison, kidney dialysis is $20,000 to $80,000 per life-year saved)

Mar 02 2010

CDC Health Status Report

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments

The Centers for Disease Control issues a massive compendium of health facts and information called Health United States 2009. In addition to basic information regarding health care, it has some…

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Mar 01 2010

Maybe It’s the Providers that Are the Cause of Spending Increases.

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Two more studies suggest that provider price increases, particularly those of hospitals, are the cause for overall spending rises and notes that there is little competitive check on providers' ability…

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Feb 27 2010

2010 Potpourri VII

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The latest in our regular amalgamation of health care news items, including telehealth, how many people really die from not having health insurance, silent PPOs, progress in automating claims processing…

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Feb 26 2010

Wall Street Journal

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A battle over who to blame for rising health-care costs is escalating, as groups seek to pin the problem on each other and say none of the health-care legislation under consideration does enough to solve it

Feb 26 2010

Bloomberg

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Don’t blame only insurers for rising health-care costs – California’s hospital fees surged 10.6 percent annually from 1999 to 2005 as the state’s biggest hospital networks began to demand higher rates

Feb 26 2010

Competition Leads to Lower Hospital Costs

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Research indicates that commercial health insurance, while it has geographic variation in spending, does not vary in the same way as Medicare. A primary factor explaining private health plan geographic…

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