 Payment Reform and Unit Costs - 3-11-2009 20:46:25
The major driver of commercial health care premium increases is not the use of health care services, which accounts for less than a third of annual premium increases, but unit costs. In other words, the price of health care is driving up commercial costs more quickly than overutilization of services.
There are many reasons for this. […] more »
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REALLY WANNA CONTROL HEALTH CARE COSTS? - 11-11-2009 4:50:14
Arnold Kling says the answer is health care vouchers. He and several other experts, some of whom don’t seem to know much about economics (health care or otherwise), provide their ideas to the NYT. Kling explains his as follows:
The key to containing health care costs is to reduce spending on medical procedures that have high costs and low benefits. [...] more »
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Controlling Health Care Costs by Seduction - 12-3-2009 12:18:42
By PETER NESBITT The past failure of insurers and care providers to control medical costs challenges the Obama health care team to redesign health care to provide broader coverage while managing costs. If the past is any guide, they will... more »
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Key Drivers Of Health Care Costs Identified And Analyzed By Internists New Paper - 11-9-2009 7:00:00
A policy paper that identifies and analyzes the key drivers of health care costs has been released by the American College of Physicians (ACP). Controlling Health Care Costs While Promoting the Best Possible Health Outcomes provides nearly four dozen recommendations to achieve better quality care to more people. more »
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Doctors Say Costs, Not Care, Have Become Focus - 1-7-2009 5:03:11
As health care costs have soared, many physicians have struggled to manage the business end of health care and provide quality care for their patients. Two doctors, each with more than 30 years of experience, talk with NPR about the changes they've seen in health care, and where the system might be headed. more »
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Three Initiatives to Reduce Costs and Increase Health Care Efficiencies - 16-7-2009 10:35:38
BY DALE H. YAMAMOTO Two major objectives underlying all current health care reform proposals are to reduce health care costs and to improve the quality of health care delivery. In my recent essay, part of the Society of Actuaries’ new... more »
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Five Simple Steps to Taking Control of Your Health Care Costs: A Doctor Weighs In By: Dr. Erika Schwartz, Medical Director of Cinergy Health (www.cinergyhealth.com) - 11-9-2009 18:23:32
The nation’s health care spending tide is rising rapidly, leading to higher overall health care costs and catalyzing individuals and businesses to cut back on health insurance coverage or forego it altogether. And as a doctor, I am first to admit that our health care system is bubbling over with inefficiencies, including unnecessary administrative expenses, [...] more »
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White House Emphasizes Need To Reduce Health Care Costs, Improve Access To Care Among Blacks - 22-5-2009 11:00:00
During a White House teleconference last week, Nancy-Ann DeParle, director of the White House Office on Health Reform said that reducing health care costs is "particularly important for the [black] community because on average, they spend a higher percentage of their income on health care costs, compared to their white counterparts," the Washington Informer reports. more »
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Do higher copayments decrease health care costs? - 20-1-2010 23:13:55
Merrill Goozner of GoozNews writes the following:
The share of health care costs borne by individuals has remained fairly steady over the past several decades, and that is the prime argument behind conservative and economist claims that making patients have “more skin in the game” will drive health care costs lower. That ignores the fact that [...] more »
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Do higher copayments decrease health care costs? - 20-1-2010 23:13:55
Merrill Goozner of GoozNews writes the following:
The share of health care costs borne by individuals has remained fairly steady over the past several decades, and that is the prime argument behind conservative and economist claims that making patients have “more skin in the game” will drive health care costs lower. That ignores the fact that [...] more »
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What would actually work? Driving down the cost of health care - 25-9-2009 14:43:25
JOE FLOWER If competition actually drives the cost of health care up rather than down, what would bring lower costs? What provisions in a “health reform act” would actually drop costs in health care? Let’s leave aside for the moment... more »
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Wisconsin Lowered Health Care Costs - 19-8-2009 20:18:39
We’re hearing about health care reform every day, it seems, especially since President Obama is trying to pass legislation from the rising costs for Americans. That’s why I was pleasantly surprised to see that a group of Milwaukee area employers seem to be ahead of the curve. They have found a way to lower costs while still providing great health care options for their employees.
Four years ago, a group of fourteen Milwaukee employers teamed up to figure out how to lower their health care costs. They employers got bids from area hospitals and physicians, and when someone [...]Post from: Blisstree
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Wisconsin Lowered Health Care Costs - 19-8-2009 20:18:39
We’re hearing about health care reform every day, it seems, especially since President Obama is trying to pass legislation from the rising costs for Americans. That’s why I was pleasantly surprised to see that a group of Milwaukee area employers seem to be ahead of the curve. They have found a way to lower costs while still providing great health care options for their employees.
Four years ago, a group of fourteen Milwaukee employers teamed up to figure out how to lower their health care costs. They employers got bids from area hospitals and physicians, and when someone [...]Post from: Blisstree
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Wisconsin Lowered Health Care Costs - 19-8-2009 20:18:39
We’re hearing about health care reform every day, it seems, especially since President Obama is trying to pass legislation from the rising costs for Americans. That’s why I was pleasantly surprised to see that a group of Milwaukee area employers seem to be ahead of the curve. They have found a way to lower costs while still providing great health care options for their employees.
Four years ago, a group of fourteen Milwaukee employers teamed up to figure out how to lower their health care costs. They employers got bids from area hospitals and physicians, and when someone [...]Post from: Blisstree
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Wisconsin Lowered Health Care Costs - 19-8-2009 20:18:39
We’re hearing about health care reform every day, it seems, especially since President Obama is trying to pass legislation from the rising costs for Americans. That’s why I was pleasantly surprised to see that a group of Milwaukee area employers seem to be ahead of the curve. They have found a way to lower costs while still providing great health care options for their employees.
Four years ago, a group of fourteen Milwaukee employers teamed up to figure out how to lower their health care costs. They employers got bids from area hospitals and physicians, and when someone [...]Post from: Blisstree
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Wisconsin Lowered Health Care Costs - 19-8-2009 20:18:39
We’re hearing about health care reform every day, it seems, especially since President Obama is trying to pass legislation from the rising costs for Americans. That’s why I was pleasantly surprised to see that a group of Milwaukee area employers seem to be ahead of the curve. They have found a way to lower costs while still providing great health care options for their employees.
Four years ago, a group of fourteen Milwaukee employers teamed up to figure out how to lower their health care costs. They employers got bids from area hospitals and physicians, and when someone [...]Post from: Blisstree
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Wisconsin Lowered Health Care Costs - 19-8-2009 20:18:39
We’re hearing about health care reform every day, it seems, especially since President Obama is trying to pass legislation from the rising costs for Americans. That’s why I was pleasantly surprised to see that a group of Milwaukee area employers seem to be ahead of the curve. They have found a way to lower costs while still providing great health care options for their employees.
Four years ago, a group of fourteen Milwaukee employers teamed up to figure out how to lower their health care costs. They employers got bids from area hospitals and physicians, and when someone [...]Post from: Blisstree
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Regional Payment And Delivery Reforms: Critical To Obama Plan’s Success - 10-9-2009 15:50:49
Early in President Barack Obama’s speech to Congress about health care reform, he mentioned health care costs as one of the causes of the problem of lack of insurance coverage. But most of the speech focused on what to do about health insurance costs, not health care costs. Changing the rules about how insurance companies operate [...] more »
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A Painless Way To Hold Down Health Costs? - 30-6-2009 13:00:00
NPR reports on a way to reduce national health care costs: "Getting doctors and hospitals in the parts of the country that spend the most on medical care now to bring that spending more in line with that of lower-spending regions." Researchers at The Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care "have found two key points. more »
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If I were health czar - steps to decrease health care costs - 13-1-2009 12:31:56
First, I would not want to be the health czar. I like my current position. Still, it is fun to provide advice from the sidelines.
Our job is to consider health care costs and which are unnecessary. I have some candidate categories for potential health care savings.
Our biggest hurdle remains the privacy issue. We could save considerable [...] more »
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