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To switch or not to switch?
Very few Medicare Part D enrollees switch plans each year even though doing so could save them money. The Kaiser Family Foundation recently released an issue brief discussing the occurrence of prescription drug plan switching among Medicare Part D beneficiaries. Continue Reading …
Cost: A Side Effect of Care
Physicians often underestimate the costs of care thereby imposing a potentially catastrophic side effect on patients. Health care costs consume an increasing proportion of the GDP while individual Americans face an increasing financial burden from medical bills. Two recent articles Continue Reading …
The Smoking Gun
The authors of this study sought to create the most comprehensive evaluation to date analyzing gun ownership data over the past thirty years. They did so while controlling for eighteen potential confounding factors including violent crime rate, number of hunting Continue Reading …
PCHM’s do not reduce overall costs
Is bending the cost curve possible with an innovative strategy like the patient-centered medical home? As implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) gains traction, novel care such as and Patient Centered Medical Homes (PCMHs) are emerging Continue Reading …
Medicaid expansion benefits emergency departments
Twenty-five states have still refused to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act; that’s bad news for ERs everywhere. A recent article in the Annals of Emergency Medicine analyzed the revenue increases due to emergency physicians for services delivered to Continue Reading …
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