Managing Health Care Costs
Health care inflation consistently outpaces the consumer price index, and current estimates suggest that the overall cost of health care will exceed a fifth of the economy by 2018. Addressing the issue of rising health care costs is critical to the economic health of our country, and the physical health of its residents. This blog initially began as an outgrowth of a class at the Harvard School Of Public Health, and is open to all. Please join us.
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May 16, 12 06:40PMToday’s Managing Health Care Costs Indicator is 4%I was initially surprised by an analysis by Kaiser Family Foundation of Medicare costs of the top hospitals in the US News and World Repor t...
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May 14, 12 07:09PMToday’s Managing Health Care Costs Indicator is 6Accountable Care Organizations are supposed to encourage an entire medical community to increase quality while watching costs. They are different than...
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May 14, 12 05:06AMToday’s Managing Health Care Cost Indicator is 1.3% Click image to enlarge. Source Last Monday’s American Medical News has an article “Prices for doctor services lag behind i nflation...
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May 11, 12 04:58AMToday’s Managing Health Care Costs Indicator is $160 BillionTwo competing plans to reform payment were revealed in Massachusetts, one by the House of Representatives and the other by the Senate. nbsp...
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May 09, 12 06:06PMToday’s Managing Health Care Costs Indicator is $27.3 billionA colleague from consulting asked me this question last week. “Will telemedicine drive up utilization or save $$? I...
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May 06, 12 04:21AMToday’s Managing Heath Care Costs Indicator is $61 billion Blue Cross Blue Shield Foundation of Massachusetts has released a reportsimulating the impact on the businesses, workers, and the overa ll...
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May 03, 12 12:57PMToday’s Managing Health Care Costs Indicator is 43.4%Blue Cross of Michigan and the University of Michigan published an elegant analysis of changes in cardiac revascularization procedures in Mic higan...
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May 01, 12 09:37PMToday’s Managing Health Care Costs Indicator is 1.4%This weekend I posted a dismal Simon Johnson quote – where he said that economists on the left and right told him that there was little if...
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Apr 29, 12 12:46PMI'm a fan of Planet Money - and dutifully download these great podcasts twice a week.Here's a quote from last Tuesday's podcast, an interview with MIT Economist Simon Johnson, who has just published a book...
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Apr 28, 12 12:18PMToday’s Managing Health Care Costs Indicator is $175 million The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 1/3 of Americans will have diabetes in 2050. There is conce rn...
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