A study finds that using home health care after a hospital admission for Medicare beneficiaries with certain chronic illnesses reduces Medicare Part A spending and readmissions compared to a beneficiary…
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Summer waxes but no heat-induced torpor can stop us from producing our Potpourri of health snapshots, including the health care and health care coverage of young adults; malpractice incidence; Massachusetts…
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CMS issued a proposed notice regarding its regular review of relative value units for physician reimbursement under Medicare. The notice gives you a sense of the impossibility of understanding what…
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CMS has proposed a rule to implement a PPACA provision allowing access to extracts of provider-level Medicare data to evaluate performance, primarily on quality measures. This is a good first…
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An Institute of Medicine report finds Medicare's geographic reimbursement adjustment formulas to be seriously flawed and suggests general principles to guide a reworking. The conclusions and follow-up reports are sure…
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Another round of health tidbits, including the association between primary care workforce and Medicare outcomes, comparisons of Type 2 diabetes drugs, effects of limiting DTC drug advertising, health information exchange…
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The latest paper on geographic variation in Medicare spending uses a different design and statistical tool to demonstrate that higher spending on health care is associated with better health in…
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As noted in yesterday's post, the Trustees of the Medicare Hospital and Supplementary Funds recognized the inadequacy of the official projections of Medicare's financial condition, and therefore had an alternative,…
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The Medicare Trustees have released the 2011 report on the status of the Medicare funds, indicating that they will be exhausted sooner than anticipated, due both to the recession 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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