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Building transparency in health care costs
Lisa Pickoff-White Joel Withrow Jeanne Pinder Anybody who has ever built software knows how tricky it can be (hello, HealthCare.gov!).…
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New key concept: The inequality of violent injury and death
The statistics are hard to believe. The most dangerous counties in the United States have rates of violent death that…
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How to understand 2015 exchange plan insurance rate changes
It’s rate increase season, and as we head into the second ACA enrollment season, it’s hard to understand why some…
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Are medical, dental boards public or private? Case over teeth-whitening services may decide
A long-simmering feud between North Carolina’s state dental board and a group of non-dentists who provide teeth-whitening services in malls…
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AHCJ pushes for more data on residency programs
The Association of Health Care Journalists has called upon the accreditor of physician residency programs to be more transparent with…
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Webcast: Under value-based insurance design, would insurers pay members for high-value services?
Here’s the bare-minimum definition of value-based insurance design: Those who are the most ill should pay the least for treatment.…
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Clearing up confusion about ”˜dual eligibles’
Liz Seegert Dual eligibles are low-income elderly or disabled people jointly enrolled in both Medicare and Medicaid. The distinctions are sometimes…
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Searchable hospital data now includes June inspections
AHCJ just added 3,522 detailed records of hospital deficiencies on its HospitalInspections.org website. The latest addition includes inspections into June.…
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Six (or more) things to remember when reporting on health care costs
Health care costs lack transparency and are wildly variable, not just from region to region but sometimes from block to…
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Fraud, marketing just part of problems with hospice system
A Huffington Post exposé in June, “Hospice, Inc.,” rekindled some thoughts I’ve long had about the split personality of the…
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