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...