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Category: Affordability & Delivery System
An Optimal Physician Payment System
The researchers at Harvard have really done it this time! Just when you thought it couldn’t get any more exciting, they release a study on…typology. Ty-pol-o-gy: [tahy-pol-uh-jee] noun. a systematic classification or study of types. Harvard researchers classified ‘types’ in Continue Reading …
Quality over Quantity: Reforming Payment
A new research report from the RAND Corporation and sponsored by the National Quality Forum offers insight into for medical services. A response to the leading trend among health care payers to pay for quality instead of quantity, the lengthy Continue Reading …
Time is Money
American physicians waste significantly more time dealing with red-tape associated with the multiple insurance payers in the United States. Compared to Canada – with its single payer – US physicians spend four times as much. Physicians and administrators in the Continue Reading …
Why pay more?
The United States spends more on physician services than other countries. New research suggests that consumers pay a premium for US physicians. So are US doctors the Coca-Cola and Louis Vuitton of the health care world? Why does health care Continue Reading …
Market Concentration Affects Cost-Shifts
Hospitals have been largely thought to shift costs among public and private payers to offset costs. New research reveals that the ability to conduct such cost-shifting is also related to the competitive nature of a hospital’s community. It is a Continue Reading …