Health
US marks four straight years of slowing health costs
President Barack Obama's health care law has divided the nation, but government experts are saying his first term produced historically low growth in health costs.
Jan 6, 2014
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Pediatrics
New quality, payment initiative positively impacts pediatric care
Within two years of implementation, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts' Alternative Quality Contract (AQC) had a small but significant positive effect on the quality of pediatric care, according to a new study from Boston ...
Dec 23, 2013
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Evidence of savings in accountable care organizations and cancer care
Approximately 10 percent of Medicare spending is for cancer care, and Medicare spending is nearly four times higher for beneficiaries with cancer than in those without the disease. Little is known about how to curb spending ...
Dec 13, 2013
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US ranks near bottom among industrialized nations in efficiency of health care spending
A new study by researchers at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and McGill University in Montreal reveals that the United States health care system ranks 22nd out of 27 high-income nations when analyzed for its efficiency ...
Dec 12, 2013
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Health spending is more efficient for men than for women
Health care spending is a large – and ever increasing - portion of government budgets. Improving its efficiency has therefore become critically important. In the first-ever study to estimate health spending efficiency by ...
Dec 12, 2013
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Rich countries hit brake for health spending: OECD
A third of the world's rich countries cut health spending between 2009 and 2011, according to a probe of 33 advanced economies published on Thursday.
Nov 20, 2013
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Medications
Drug sales to hit lowest growth rate in decades
Growth in global prescription drug spending will slow to the lowest rate in decades as low-cost generic drugs continue replacing former blockbusters in the U.S. and Europe, where governments face new pressure to reduce health ...
Nov 19, 2013
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Soaring prices, not demand, behind massive hike in US health spending
(HealthDay)—Contrary to popular belief, the biggest reason for the rise in U.S. health care spending is not an aging population or patient demand but rather the increasing costs of drugs, procedures and hospital care, a ...
Nov 12, 2013
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Politicization of health care preventing real changes to out-of-control system, researchers suggest
Over the last decade, the biggest driver of the high health care costs in the United States has been neither the aging of the population nor the large numbers of tests and treatments being prescribed.
Nov 12, 2013
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Repeal SGR formula and replace sequestration cuts internists tell Budget Conference Committee
Internists today provided input to the recently appointed Congressional Budget Conference Committee members, providing them with specific recommendations to reform Medicare physician payments and replace the sequestration ...
Oct 25, 2013
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