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The Relentless Rise of Healthcare Expenditures

Byadmin August 24, 2016

Need I say more?

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Where in the World are the ACOs?
Byadmin March 27, 2014

The Affordable Care Act established several programs to promote the formation of Accountable Care Organizations. These ACOs are a relatively new way of organizing healthcare delivery, in which healthcare providers join together – perhaps across physician groups and hospitals – to care for a population of patients, and are then held accountable both for the…

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What Do Cancer Centers Think Patients Are Looking For?
Byadmin May 12, 2015

If you were a cancer center trying to get patients to come to receive care at your facility, what message would you send them? In other words, what would you as a cancer center director think people would value in choosing a place to receive cancer care? One way to answer this would be to…

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Variation in Medicare Costs Is Mainly Due to Post-Acute Care
Byadmin May 30, 2013

Health policy wonks have been pointing for a while now to large variations in Medicare spending across different parts of the country. Live in Miami, and the government is probably going to spend a heck of a lot more for you on Medicare than if you live in Minneapolis, even after accounting for how healthy or…

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The Most Expensive Medical Condition Is Not What You Think
Byadmin2 July 14, 2025July 14, 2025

In a minute, I’m going to ask you what the most expensive medical condition is in the American healthcare system. Before you guess, however, I’m going to explain what I mean by “most expensive.” I’m not talking about cost per patient. Some people with cancer receive hundreds of thousands of dollars of chemotherapy per year,…

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The Cost of New Cancer Drugs (In One Picture)
Byadmin May 9, 2017

“Specialty drugs” – that’s what they’re called. Not the pills of old, these pharmaceuticals are often given intravenously or through injection. Often more biologic in their synthesis than chemical, they are expensive to produce and often target narrow disease processes, meaning the number of patients likely to benefit from them is much much smaller than,…

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Healthcare.gov 3.0 — Behavioral Economics and Insurance Exchanges
Byadmin December 18, 2018

“Healthcare.gov 3.0 — Behavioral Economics and Insurance Exchanges” – The New England Journal of Medicine

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The Relentless Rise of Healthcare Expenditures

Where in the World are the ACOs?

What Do Cancer Centers Think Patients Are Looking For?

Variation in Medicare Costs Is Mainly Due to Post-Acute Care

The Most Expensive Medical Condition Is Not What You Think

The Cost of New Cancer Drugs (In One Picture)

Healthcare.gov 3.0 — Behavioral Economics and Insurance Exchanges

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