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More Misleading Tripe on Health Insurance Profits
Trashing insurance companies is popular and one of the most frequent complaints is about their premium increases and profits. A NEJM perspective uses misleading information to continue dumping on health plans.
Process Measures and Quality Improvement
A study in JAMA suggests that process-of-care quality measures, which are frequently used for bonus or penalty reimbursement programs, may have little real relationship to ultimate health outcomes.
Workers’ Comp Medical Cost Increases
Workers’ compensation health cost trends may provide some insight into underlying medical cost issues across the system and vice versa. An NCCI report looks at factors driving trends in medical cost increases for workers’ compensation.
Health Insurance Exchanges
The notion of a health insurance exchange to assist individuals and small groups in finding affordable health insurance is a critical part of the coverage expansion in the recent health law. A Commonwealth Fund report reviews important issues to consider in the establishment and operation of these exchanges.
2010 Potpourri XXVI
More midsummer musings, covering possible replacements for AWP, the effect of Part D on heart failure drug use, the VA’s telehealth programs, venture capital activity, self-management of high blood pressure, and of course, more problems with health insurance costs in Massachusetts.
MedPAC’s Annual Report II
More commentary on MedPAC’s Annual Report, focusing on the care of dual-eligible beneficiaries and the use of shared decision-making in the Medicare population.
Commentary