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Category: Health care costs
Medicare Advantage pays less than Fee for Service
According to conventional wisdom among health policymakers and health economists, traditional fee-for-service (FFS) Medicare ought to be able to extract lower per unit prices than privately operated Medicare Advantage plans due to the former’s monopsony buying power. A new scientific Continue Reading …
Moving the Medicare Age up is Bad Medicine
A common goal for health reform is to decrease total health care expenditures. Adjusting the eligibility age for Medicare beneficiaries has the attraction of decreasing federal spending and shifting costs to private marketplaces. However, these reforms would detract from the Continue Reading …
Robbing the Poor to Give to the Rich
Soaring health care costs have been a popular topic of discussion in the public arena, even in the midst of a recent spending slowdown between 2004 and 2013. The authors of this study investigated how health care expenditures differed between Continue Reading …
Policy Trends in 2016
http://www.aaem.org/UserFiles/Episode25.mp3 In this Policy Prescriptions® edition of the AAEM Emergency Physician Advocates: Legal and Policy Issues in Emergency Medicine podcast, Cedric Dark, MD MPH, Assistant Professor at the Emergency Medicine Residency Program at Baylor College of Medicine, speaks with Jessie Continue Reading …
Defining Value in Healthcare through Price and Cost Transparency
Dr. Laura Medford-Davis’ exploration into the costs of care across the U.S. Defining Value in Healthcare through Price and Cost Transparency from Cedric Dark
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