Yet another study has emerged on the factors responsible for apparent variation in costs of treating Medicare patients, this one focused on the high-cost quartile of beneficiaries and finding that…
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Researchers writing in JAMA looked at whether the ownership type of a hospice appeared to be correlated with profit-maximizing behavior under Medicare's per diem payment scheme. They found only weak…
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Another rendition of selections from the health literature, including advance directive issues; guideline problems; physician religious beliefs and end-of-life care; health information exchanges; the results of use of modified global…
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We have reported several times on geographic variation in health spending, primarily in regard to Medicare beneficiaries, MEdPAC released a new brief that focuses on variation in use as opposed…
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