A report from the Health Care Cost Institute explores the effect of limiting price variation, demonstrating how much of our spending problem is linked to unit prices.
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A study from UnitedHealth Care reveals further details on the extent of variation in prices for health services.
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A New York Times analysis and article confirms what we already know; when hospitals consolidate health plans and patients pay more.
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A report from the Health Care Cost Institute reveals wide variation between and within major urban areas.
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A report from the Minnesota Department of Health reveals the variation in hospital pricing.
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Today we look at a recent paper that once again correlates hospital market power and prices, a major cause of excessive health spending.
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Today's price post discusses another KFF/Peterson work which analyzes prices and utilization across countries.
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It is health care price week, and we start off with a Peterson/Kaiser Health System Tracker piece on price trends over the last few decades.
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A report from Fair Health summarizes trends in use of different sites of care and pricing at those sites.
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Research carried by Heath Affairs examines differences in public and private payer physician office visit reimbursements.
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A study in the Journal of Health Economics examines health care price elasticities.
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A report from the Minnesota Department of Health finds substantial variation in the state for prices of common health services.
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A study sponsored by the Health Care Cost Institute and published in Health Affairs looks at variation in prices paid by commercial health plans.
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Research carried by the American Journal of Managed Care focuses on different prices paid for the same service at various sites of care.
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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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