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MedPAC Got It Wrong (pt 3)

The Health Care Blog

The capitation levels that are paid to the plans are affected very directly by the health status levels of the actual enrollees. That initial payment process has evolved very intentionally into having diagnosis-based cost factors that attempt to link the health status of the members and a fair payment level for the plans.

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Overadjustment – an important bias hiding in plain sight

International Journal of Epidemiology Blog

To illustrate this, researchers highlighted the impact that overadjustment would have on their total effect of interest ( educational inequalities in health among people with chronic kidney disease ) by building various models with different levels of adjustment and explicitly comparing the results.

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Will Vertical Integration Kill the Primary Care Practice?

Health Blawg

Once the federales blocked the health insurance company mega-mergers, it was only a matter of time before alternative approaches to rearranging the three-dimensional chessboard of the healthcare-industrial complex would emerge. Health insurance, pharmacy and urgent care all under one roof. The approach du jour is the vertical merger.

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Will Vertical Integration Kill the Primary Care Practice?

Health Blawg

Once the federales blocked the health insurance company mega-mergers, it was only a matter of time before alternative approaches to rearranging the three-dimensional chessboard of the healthcare-industrial complex would emerge. Health insurance, pharmacy and urgent care all under one roof. The approach du jour is the vertical merger.

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Will Vertical Integration Kill the Primary Care Practice?

Health Blawg

Once the federales blocked the health insurance company mega-mergers, it was only a matter of time before alternative approaches to rearranging the three-dimensional chessboard of the healthcare-industrial complex would emerge. Health insurance, pharmacy and urgent care all under one roof. The approach du jour is the vertical merger.

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Will Vertical Integration Kill the Primary Care Practice?

Health Blawg

Once the federales blocked the health insurance company mega-mergers, it was only a matter of time before alternative approaches to rearranging the three-dimensional chessboard of the healthcare-industrial complex would emerge. Health insurance, pharmacy and urgent care all under one roof. The approach du jour is the vertical merger.

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Will Vertical Integration Kill the Primary Care Practice?

Health Blawg

Once the federales blocked the health insurance company mega-mergers, it was only a matter of time before alternative approaches to rearranging the three-dimensional chessboard of the healthcare-industrial complex would emerge. Health insurance, pharmacy and urgent care all under one roof. The approach du jour is the vertical merger.