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health care costs
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AHRQ names decade’s five costliest conditions
According to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the five costliest conditions from 1996 to 2006 were heart disease,…
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Post documents self-referred, in-house scans
The Washington Post‘s Shankar Vedantam explores the well-documented phenomenon in which physicians who own scanners are far, far more likely…
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Kaiser tool compares Health Policy proposals
The Kaiser Family Foundation has put together a thorough, handy tool for comparing various health care reform proposals, one which…
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Pay for the person – not the procedures
When people talk about Health Policy it’s often shorthand for covering the uninsured. But improving access without tackling costs is…
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Anecdotes unleashed as reform battle heats up
Carla K. Johnson of the Associated Press takes a look at the avalanche of anecdotes used as ammunition by both…
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Reinhardt calls for price research/transparency
Princeton health economist Uwe Reinhardt – the keynote speaker at Health Journalism 2009 – spoke to U.S. News & World…
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Report, feature focus on state health stats
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has assembled data from the 2008 National…
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Plain Dealer adds ‘price compare’ feature
Cleveland Plain Dealer reporter Sarah Jane Tribble recently announced a new feature for the paper’s health and fitness blog. Every…
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Gawande responds to critics of health cost piece
Atul Gawande, M.D., who recently wrote a much-discussed article about health care costs, has responded to his critics in a…
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In speech, Gawande asks new MDs to cut costs
In the wake of his much-discussed New Yorker piece about health care costs, Dr. Atul Gawande spoke to graduates of…