Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) works! Today’s Managing Health Care Costs Number is 5% It’s not easy to design and implement a successful medical management program. Such program...
CMS Announces Drug Payment Pilots Today’s Managing Health Care Costs Number is 6% The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has announced a new proposal for how to pay f...
AHIP Protests Too Much: Complains That CMS Underpays for Sick Members But Ignores Overpayment for Healthy Members Today’s Managing Health Care Costs Number is (not) $2.6 billion America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) released a study it funded which su...
Death of EHR "Meaningul Use" imminent. (Hopefully the death of the 'National Programme for Health IT in the HHS' is imminent, too.) I've written a number of posts on the Orwellian-named "Meaningful Use" experiment with electronic health records systems, impo...
CMS Posts Drug Prices and Utilization. Generic Prices Up Steeply Today’s Managing Health Care Costs Number is 329% The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services unveiled a new tool that allows researcher...
Specialty Drug Cost Increases: No Easy Answers Today's Managing Health Care Costs Number is 50% Health care costs have risen much more slowly over the last few years than over the la...
In Defense of Fee For Service Today’s Managing Health Care Costs Number is 90% There’s a lot of momentum behind an effort to decrease our reliance on fee for service as a...
Medicare ACOs Save Dollars (not) Today’s Managing Health Care Costs Number is 0.06% Kaiser Health News reported yesterday that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service...