Category: Saturday Links
Saturday Links
Insurers (including Medicare and Medicaid) should be required to let their enrollees keep 100 percent of the savings from price shopping for care. So, for instance, if a patient opts for a surgeon charging $4,000 for a procedure, and the insurer would normally pay $5,000 for the service, the patient should get to keep the $1,000 from choosing the lower-priced option.
This is much easier to do with a a Heath Savings Account
Saturday Links
- The downside of more screening.
- Nine health reform ideas for Trump.
- Facebook censors are going wild.
- A majority of adult Americans have at least one chronic condition. More than one-fourth of us have two or more.
- Out-of-pocket costs were 18–24 percent lower in Medicare Advantage than traditional Medicare, from 2014 through 2019.
Saturday Links
- Can access to credit affect the quality of health care hospitals deliver?
- Viewpoint: we are at the start of a 4th industrial revolution.
- Medicare Advantage telehealth primary care visits. They are more likely when the beneficiary is frail (39.4%), when the beneficiary is disabled (20.1%) and when low income (8.3%).
- Elevance study: Medicare Advantage saved Medicare as much as $144 billion over ten years. (I’ll have more to say about this study in the near future.)