A draft evidence report from AHRQ looks at end-of-life and hospice care. End-of-life care is often fingered as one of the causes of increasing health spending. The report finds moderate…
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How much does health spending per person vary across the fifty states and does that variance occur equally in the commercially insured population, Medicaid eligibles and Medicare beneficiaries? These and…
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Our penultimate Potpourri delivers the quality you are accustomed to (for good or bad), including presents of health information on the Medicare physician payment method, telemonitoring results in the UK,…
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A study reported in the American Journal of Managed Care follows up on the comparative geographic variation in spending on Medicare patients and commercially insured ones in Texas, finding that…
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The holiday shopping season is in full swing but our Potpourri is free, filled with useful data on high-deductible health plans and utilization, Medicare Advantage plan Stars bonuses, drug complications…
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The Kaiser Foundation looks at proposals to revamp Medicare's cost-sharing design, including possible changes to Medigap benefits, finding that changes could save billions for the program and reduce costs for…
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A final summary of Medicare's disease management pilots gives a bleak picture of the value of the efforts. While there are design and methodological critiques of the Medicare program that…
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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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