“Cowboy Doctors” and Health Costs

http://harvardmagazine.com/2015/08/cowboy-doctors-and-health-costs

WHO’S DRIVING UP U.S. healthcare costs? A recent study by Harvard professors and colleagues revealed that the culprits may be “cowboy doctors”—physicians who provide intensive, unnecessary, and often ineffective patient care, resulting in wasteful spending costing as much as 2 percent of the nation’s Gross Domestic Product—hundreds of billions of dollars annually

Could Insurer Consolidation Check Health Costs?

http://ww2.cfo.com/health-benefits/2015/07/insurer-consolidation-check-health-costs/

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It may be counterintuitive, but combinations like Aetna’s planned purchase of Humana could lead to lower pricing from medical providers.

 

Major inflection point looms for US health-care costs

http://www.cnbc.com/id/102740854?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Healthcare%20Dive&utm_campaign=Issue%3A%202015-06-09%20Healthcare%20Dive

Physician and Cash

Medicare at 50: A Shield for Seniors

http://www.medpagetoday.com/MedPageTodayat10/Medicareat50/50737?xid=nl_mpt_DHE_2015-04-01&eun=g885344d0r&userid=885344&mu_id=7095614

The Birth and Increasingly Troubled Life of Medicare

Our Fragmented Approach to Health-Care Costs

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2014/12/04/our-fragmented-approach-to-health-care-costs/

 

Top 10 California Healthcare Foundation Releases of 2014

http://www.chcf.org/publications/extras/top-ten

California HealthCare Foundation – Supporting ideas and innovations to improve health care for all Californians.

#JPM15: Ezekiel Emanuel talks health care costs – and why many cancer drugs just aren’t worth it

#JPM15: Ezekiel Emanuel talks health care costs – and why many cancer drugs just aren’t worth it

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