Advocates for Evidence-Based Health Policy Speakers
Category: Affordability & Delivery System
Medicare paid me $112,134
Click the image to see how much Medicare paid me in 2012. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released a massive amount of information today regarding how much money it paid out to individual doctors. For the policy nerds Continue Reading …
Can telemedicine save money?
This study capitalized on a natural experiment: A company that owned several nursing homes in Massachusetts decided to invest in telemedicine, technology that allows patients and doctors two-way communication via videoconferencing. To study its effects, researchers convinced the company to Continue Reading …
Public plans and wait times
Merritt Hawkins, a for-profit, physician recruitment and workforce company, recently published a survey examining new patient access to physicians. Specifically, the survey recorded the time needed to schedule a new patient appointment with a physician in 15 major metropolitan markets Continue Reading …
High Deductibles Reduce Cost
One answer to the increasing cost of health care is limiting utilization through patient cost shifting—exposing patients to a greater share of the financial risk of health care through (HDHP). HDHPs shift costs by requiring members to bear the full Continue Reading …
Provider-led cost control
In an era of increasing government pressure to contain costs, policymakers have encouraged providers to re-evaluate the use of expensive medical devices for cost-effectiveness. This requires physicians to be familiar with the pricing of commonly used devices, and to actively choose less expensive alternatives. However, physician knowledge of Continue Reading …
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