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Dec 14 2015

And in yet another study in Health Affairs indicating the harms of hospital consolidation of medical services, ambulatory surgery centers raised prices much less in the last few years than did hospital outpatient departments providing the same services.

http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/34/10/1753.abstract
Dec 03 2015

Once again people are shocked, just shocked, when the response to a government regulation is to try to minimize the consequences.  The Wall Street Journal finds a relationship between hospitals showing significant declines in readmissions and increased use of observation stays at those hospitals.  Guess what, readmissions are penalized but being "readmitted" for "observation" doesn't count.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/medicare-rules-reshape-hospital-admissions-1449024342
May 28 2015

2016 Proposed Medicare Hospital Payment Rule

https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2015/04/30/2015-09245/medicare-program-hospital-inpatient-prospective-payment-systems-for-acute-care-hospitals-and-the
May 02 2015

A study in Health Services Research finds that creating hospital network tiers with differential copays can cause hospitals to lower prices and for more admissions to occur in preferred tiers.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1475-6773.12291/abstract
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