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  1. 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]
  2. HealthExecMobile: if the U.S. could match Sweden's premature birth rate, nearly 8,000 infant deaths would be averted annually [CDC]
  3. 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]
  4. HealthExecMobile: According to a new report , the U.S. healthcare system wastes between $600 billion and $850 billion annually [Reuters]
  5. MCOLBlog: ICD-10 Web Summit: Issues for 2010 http://bit.ly/3MJj38
  6. Estimated Direct and Indirect Costs of Stroke: United States: 2009: $68.9 Billion [American Heart Association]
  7. HealthExecMobile: The basic Medicare premium will increase next yr by 15%, 73% of beneficiaries will be allowed to pay their 2009 rate [CMS]
  8. MCOLBlog: What Changes To Health Care During The Past Ten Years Have Had The Most Profound Impact http://bit.ly/1RkHcs
  9. Factoid: The United States ranks at the bottom of 19 industrialized nations in the number of preventable deaths [The Washington Post]
  10. New Eng. plans were 19.2% more likely to ensure that all pts received all appropriate cancer screenings compared w/South Central plans[NCQA]
  11. Only 46.4% of people taking anti-depressant drugs are monitored by their physicians [NCQA]
  12. MCOLBlog: Accelerated and Deferred Strategic Maintenance http://bit.ly/2uD8Kt
  13. Factoid: 70 percent of private industry workers had access to medical benefits in 2009 [BLS]
  14. HealthExecMobile: 51% of survey respondents said that posting on web-based job boards was the best way of filling physician openings. [TMF]
  15. 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]
  16. Factoid: The Average Allowed Charge for a Back MRI in a Hospital Outpatient Department in Virginia is $1,004 [Virginia Health Information]
  17. Factoid: A study of 5,000 nonfederal hospitals found that there is a 52% lower chance of dying at top-rate hospitals. [HealthGrades]
  18. HealthExecMobile: A poll of employers from Sept. found 29% would support a tax on high-income employees with high-cost plans [Watson Wyatt]
  19. Factoid: More than 4 in 10 employers to raise employee costs for health care benefits due to the economic crisis. [Watson Wyatt]
  20. National average of 95.6 deaths per 100,000 are Amenable to Health Care [Commonwealth Fund]