JAMA JUMPS THE SHARK JAMA JUMPS THE SHARK Medical journals are supposed to promote professional values – scientific, social, and ethical. Quality matters, in eac...
Value Based Design Only Saves Money if Patients Pay More for Low Value Services Today’s Managing Health Care Costs Number is 2570 Peter Ubell has a commentary in today’s JAMA pointing out that “value based insurance desi...
Sensible Policy Suggestions to Encourage Value Based Drug Pricing Today’s Managing Health Care Costs Number is 6 Peter Bach, a Memorial Sloan Kettering oncologist, and Steve Pearson, the director of the...
Laborists and midwives lower C-Section Rates. Today’s Managing Health Care Costs Number is 34% Cesarean section rates in the US have increased to about 34%. That’s much higher than in ...
New Cholesterol Medications Could Cost Half as Much as All Primary Care Visits Today’s Managing Health Care Costs Number is $124 Kevin Schulman and colleagues wrote last month in the New England Journal that the cost ...