Friday, 2 November 2012

Medicare Regional Analysis Masks Substantial Local Variation In Health Care Spending

Reforming Medicare payments based on large geographic regions may be too bluntly targeted to promote the best use of health care resources, a new analysis from the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health suggests. The analysis will be published in the Nov. 1 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. "Much policy attention has been drawn to the large geographic variation in health care spending across regions, and for good reason - because regional variation points to inefficient use of resources," said lead author Yuting Zhang, Ph.D... via Health News from Medical News Today Read More Here..

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