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- Factoid: in 09, 4% of the adult population w/ private health insurance was enrolled in an HRA or had a high-deductible plan w/ an HSA [EBRI]about 16 hours ago from web
- HealthExecMobile: if the U.S. could match Sweden's premature birth rate, nearly 8,000 infant deaths would be averted annually [CDC]10:02 AM Nov 6th from web
- HealthExecMobile: Were all health plans to perform at the level of the top 10% of plans, the U.S. would avoid up to 115,000 deaths [NCQA]9:43 AM Nov 5th from web
- HealthExecMobile: According to a new report , the U.S. healthcare system wastes between $600 billion and $850 billion annually [Reuters]10:22 AM Nov 4th from web
- MCOLBlog: ICD-10 Web Summit: Issues for 2010 9:42 AM Nov 3rd from web
- Estimated Direct and Indirect Costs of Stroke: United States: 2009: $68.9 Billion [American Heart Association]9:54 AM Nov 2nd from web
- HealthExecMobile: The basic Medicare premium will increase next yr by 15%, 73% of beneficiaries will be allowed to pay their 2009 rate [CMS]9:56 AM Oct 29th from web
- MCOLBlog: What Changes To Health Care During The Past Ten Years Have Had The Most Profound Impact 9:27 AM Oct 28th from web
- Factoid: The United States ranks at the bottom of 19 industrialized nations in the number of preventable deaths [The Washington Post]8:35 AM Oct 27th from web
- New Eng. plans were 19.2% more likely to ensure that all pts received all appropriate cancer screenings compared w/South Central plans[NCQA]8:53 AM Oct 26th from web
- Only 46.4% of people taking anti-depressant drugs are monitored by their physicians [NCQA]11:11 AM Oct 23rd from web
- MCOLBlog: Accelerated and Deferred Strategic Maintenance 9:56 AM Oct 22nd from web
- Factoid: 70 percent of private industry workers had access to medical benefits in 2009 [BLS]10:37 AM Oct 21st from web
- HealthExecMobile: 51% of survey respondents said that posting on web-based job boards was the best way of filling physician openings. [TMF]10:17 AM Oct 20th from web
- From 2008 to 2009 the overall annual medical care CPI rose 3.5%, compared to a -1.3% drop for the entire CPI. [U.S. BLS]9:55 AM Oct 19th from web
- Factoid: The Average Allowed Charge for a Back MRI in a Hospital Outpatient Department in Virginia is $1,004 [Virginia Health Information]10:21 AM Oct 16th from web
- Factoid: A study of 5,000 nonfederal hospitals found that there is a 52% lower chance of dying at top-rate hospitals. [HealthGrades]10:01 AM Oct 15th from web
- HealthExecMobile: A poll of employers from Sept. found 29% would support a tax on high-income employees with high-cost plans [Watson Wyatt]10:11 AM Oct 14th from web
- Factoid: More than 4 in 10 employers to raise employee costs for health care benefits due to the economic crisis. [Watson Wyatt]10:20 AM Oct 13th from web
- National average of 95.6 deaths per 100,000 are Amenable to Health Care [Commonwealth Fund]10:25 AM Oct 12th from web
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