The PriceWaterhouseCooper Health Research Institute released its projections for medical trend for 2014, finding it will dip to 6.5%, which is still well ahead of economic growth or general inflation.
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While the state health insurance exchanges required by the health reform law have attracted much attention, the private sector has been busy creating its own exchanges and an Accenture report…
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A new study suggests that Medicare's lower payments to hospitals, contrary to prevailing beliefs, don't lead to cost-shifting and actually lower private insurer payment rates. The reality or mechanism of…
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A survey from the International Federation of Employee Benefit Plans examines employer attitudes toward their health plans and changes they may be making in light of the continuing implementation of…
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A brief from the Employee Benefit Research Institute explores the extent to which companies appear to be switching employees to part-time status and what is happening with the health insurance…
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A report from the Employee Benefit Research Institute examines the characteristics of persons enrolled in consumer-driven and high-deductible health plans, which continue to show rapid growth.
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Proponents of health care coverage for years have suggested that people literally died without it. New research in regard to the Oregon Medicaid lottery suggests that is highly unlikely to…
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One of the supposed consumer protections in the reform law is the requirement that a minimum amount of premium be spent on medical costs. A paper from the American Action…
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A Robert Wood Johnson report describes the ongoing decline in employment-based health insurance, driven by ongoing large premium increases and exacerbated by general declines in the work population resulting from…
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The department of Health and Human Services has issued rules regarding the role and use of "navigators" in the health insurance exchanges called for by the reform act.
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There has a been a flurry of similar reports recently, but none should have more credibility than the one from the Society of Actuaries stating that yes, claim costs and…
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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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