Today’s Managing Health Care Costs Indicator is $453 Million The blogosphere has focused a lot of attention on Massachusetts, where almost everyone (97+%) has health insurance as a result ...
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Today’s Managing Health Care Cost Indicator is 2.8 million Click image to enlarge Research from the Center for Health Workforce Studies (Albany) shows that between 2000-2010 the hea...
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Today’s Managing Health Care Costs Indicator is $6,058 Here’s the first paragraph of an article from the Boston Herald abstracted by Commonhealth yesterday: The nation’s anemic econ...
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Today's Managing Health Care Costs Indicator is 13% This month's Atlantic Monthly has two interesting infographics about how we spend our GDP in the United States. We spent 4.8% on health ca...
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Today's Managing Health Care Costs Indicator is $700 million Source . Click image to enlarge The Archives of Internal Medicine has an illuminating narrative today about how Abbott Phar...
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Today’s Managing Health Care Cost Indicator is 17,000 Click on image to enlarge. Source : Two articles that have caught my attention over the last few days demonstrate that claims dat...
TODAY'S MANAGING HEALTH CARE COSTS INDICATOR IS 3.2 MILLION Imagine that there is an infection which can be detected through screening. There is an effective but expensive treatment, and man...
Today’s Managing Health Care Costs Indicator is $1.93 billion The Commonwealth Fund released a study today estimating that insurers would have had to refund almost $2 billion to employers a...
TODAY’S MANAGING HEALTH CARE COST INDICATOR IS 45 The American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation published its compendium of five tests that each of nine specialty societies have agreed d...
TODAY’S MANAGING HEALTH CARE COSTS INDICATOR IS 8.3% Diabetes is a major killer in the US – the disease strikes about one in twelve Americans ( 8.3% in the entire population; one in fou...
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Today’s Managing Health Care Costs Indicator is Five It’s been a tough week for health care wonks of my persuasion. The Supremes – or at least the all-important Anthony Kennedy – s...
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The Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation has a different format for its 2011 Annual Report - six health care experts ask and answer questions. The six are MA Governor Deval Patric...
TODAY’S MANAGING HEALTH CARE COSTS INDICATOR IS $3000 All eyes are on the Supreme Court’s six hours of oral arguments on the Affordable Care Act this week – but we shouldn’t lose sight ...
TODAY’S MANAGING HEALTH CARE COSTS INDICATOR IS 128,000 I’ve often posted about “accretive innovation,” new medical technologies that cost a lot, and offer only a small portion of pati...
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The triumph of high-tech health care by: costguy Be sure to read a blog about GE’s effort to position ahandheld cardiac ultrasound to displace the stethoscope , rather than to disrupt the e...
TODAY’S MANAGING HEALTH CARE COSTS INDICATOR IS ONE Click on image to enlarge. Source The eyes of the nation have been focused on Massachusetts, as the Affordable Care Act is model...
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Today’s Managing Health Care Costs Indicator is 2% The Commonwealth Fund projects that Medicare investing through maintaining the Affordable...
Today’s Managing Health Care Costs Indicator is 16 milllion The CBO put forward its estimates of the impact of eliminating the individual mandate – the slides are at this URL The CBO esti...
Today’s Managing Health Care Costs Indicator is 200 The New England Journal is celebrating its 200th birthday, and the New York Times has a touching article about two former editors, Arnol...
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TODAY’S MANAGING HEALTH CARE COSTS INDICATOR IS $200 BILLION Thomas Frieden, the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is interviewed in this weekend’s On Th...
Today’s Managing Health Care Cost Indicator is 53.5% Click on image to enlarge. Source http://hschange.org/CONTENT/1280/ A report from the National Institute for Health Care Reform thi...
Today’s Managing Health Care Costs Indicator is 550% Click image to enlarge. Source Austin Frakt at The Incidental Economist picked up a gem from last month’s Archives of Interna...
TODAY’S MANAGING HEALTH CARE COSTS INDICATOR IS $15,100 NPR and Kaiser Health News reported today on a dilemma facing the state of Connecticut. The state is facing huge budget deficits,...
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Today’s Managing Health Care Costs Indicator is $25 billion That’s the upper end of what a new white paper from United Health Care says genetic testing might cost in 2021. The UHC data sh...
TODAY’S MANAGING HEALTH CARE COSTS INDICATOR IS $69 BILLION Click on image to enlarge. Source The New England Journal of Medicine reported last week that the Congressional Budget Off...
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