One primary purpose of quality reporting is to help consumers make informed decisions about where they get their care from or where they purchase insurance. Research in JAMA indicates there…
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At its annual meeting in January, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission explores issues regarding payment for various providers, beneficiary access to care and quality. This January's presentation on physician issues…
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The Congressional Budget Office releases a presentation on how it calculates long-term projections fro Medicare and Medicaid spending. More than a little frightening, and the absence of serious bipartisan discussion…
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For reasons that are truly mysterious, the Medicare Advantage program has been controversial. New research published in Health Affairs shows that the program has better utilization and spending control than…
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One of the selling points for prescription drugs has been that their use often prevents use of more costly services, like hospitalizations. A new brief from the Congressional Budget Office…
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The National Committee for Quality Assurance releases its annual report on the state of health care quality in America, based on its collection of various quality measures from health plans.…
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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is forever tinkering with reimbursement for various providers, usually not getting exactly the results it seeks. An example of this is given in…
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Another in our series of Potpourris, tasty, succulent morsels of health data food, including this week the effect of mammography screening, improving health and health costs, state costs to run…
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The Government Accounting Office examines trends in drug spending in Medicare Part B, which covers drugs administered in a doctor's office. Looking at the 55 most expensive Part B drugs,…
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Thanks be given for our last Potpourri before Thanksgiving, a table spread with delectable bites of information on hospital readmissions and quality measure performance, health plan enrollment growth, health price…
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The "fiscal cliff" deficits, and debt are very much in the news these days. A Congressional Budget Office report indicates how much of our spending difficulty is attributable to health…
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Thank God the election is finally over, but our Potpourri is never-ending, this week bringing you the latest on why comparative effectiveness research results don't translate to practice, innovations to…
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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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