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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An NCCI brief examines the effects of changes in workers' compensation fee schedules on actual reimbursements, finding a complex relationship that may have applicability to group health as well.
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Provider performance reporting is spreading rapidly and increasingly has payment consequences attached to it. New research published in JAMA gives further reason to be cautious in designing and implementing these…
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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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A new report on prices paid by commercial insurers in Massachusetts shows great variation, which appears unrelated to providers' costs or to the quality of care delivered. While the specific…
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Responding to a challenge for each medical specialty to find methods for reducing inappropriate care and spending in that specialty, two oncologists identify a number of steps that could easily…
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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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Our Memorial Day Potpourri, celebrating health information such as the growth of high-deductible plans, physician starting salaries, benefit design for high-cost conditions, why emergency room physicians order tests, the use…
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Notwithstanding clear research demonstrating the percutaneous coronary intervention has no significant outcomes advantages over medical therapy, almost no change in practice patterns has been observed, suggesting that doctors are seeking…
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Another Potpourri, this week delivering factoids on drug companies' use of technology to reach physicians, waiting times in Massachusetts, use of atypical antipsychotics in nursing homes, unnecessary colonoscopies, EMRs 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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