PWC’s Health Research Institute is projecting that overall medical cost trend for employment-based health care coverage will be around 7.5% for 2013, which is identical to the number it currently estimates for 2012 and close to the 2011 and 2010 actuals.
This edition of our data-packed Potpourri focuses on hospital readmissions, use of computer physician order entry systems, what employers will do after 2014 when all of the health law kicks in, and hospital pay-for-performance programs.
A small percent of the population accounts for a large percent of overall health spending. These people have often had difficulty getting health insurance and the reform law fixes that, but at a cost which is apparently far higher than what was originally projected by the Administration, according to its own analysis.
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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 [email protected].
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