…(ACOs). By adopting an as-yet-to-be-defined team approach to health care, the organizations purportedly would improve quality while controlling costs, theoretically by eliminating the excess services demonstrated by the Dartmouth Atlas…
Are private insurers better than Medicare in controlling costs in McAllen?
McAllen And El Paso Revisited: Medicare Variations Not Always Reflected In The Under-Sixty-Five Population
…and Dartmouth. This week, in the journal Health Affairs, the researchers published their findings. They discovered a shift with age. For members fifty or older, McAllen was indeed significantly more…
Our bad habits? Or our health care system?
What Changes In Survival Rates Tell Us About US Health Care
…costs are high because of an excess of health services that often impair outcomes. With almost no substantial evidence, the Dartmouth variations often were blamed for impaired outcomes, while largely…
Low-Cost Lessons from Grand Junction, Colorado
Low-Cost Lessons from Grand Junction, Colorado
By Thomas Bodenheimer, M.D., M.P.H., and David West, M.D. The New England Journal of Medicine October 7, 2010 According to the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care, average per capita Medicare…
Medicare-for-all doctor to speak at Chicago’s ‘Rally to Restore Sanity’
Physician says relying on Wall Street health insurance companies to finance medical care is ‘insane’
…Born and raised in Evansville, Ind., he graduated from Dartmouth College and the University of Colorado Medical School. He is a diplomat of the American Board of Emergency Medicine. This…
High-deductible health plans foster bad decisions by rich and poor
Health Care Use and Decision Making Among Lower-Income Families in High-Deductible Health Plans
…where most of the Dartmouth variations occur, but that is another topic.) For the four-fifths of us who are relatively healthy, most of us would not decline clearly appropriate care…
Slideshow Password Test
…– What Passed? What Didn’t? How Does It Compare to Single Payer? By Oliver Fein, MD – Weill Medical College of Cornell University Presented June 11, 2010 at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock…
Vermont doctors say patient needs are buried in paperwork
…Medical Center in Berlin, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H., (the New Hampshire hospital is Vermont’s second-largest health care provider) and the Good Neighbor Health Clinic in White River Junction….
Single-payer advances from Vermont to California to D.C.
…18-year primary care physician who juggles work at Central Vermont Medical Center in Berlin, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H., (the New Hampshire hospital is Vermont’s second-largest health care provider)…
Comments by Himmelstein and Woolhandler on Hsiao draft report "Achieving Affordable Universal Health Care in Vermont"
…that physicians almost always work the same number of hours, regardless of the MD/Population ratio, and the Dartmouth data make a convincing case that this is so. Hence, we’d suggest…
Will Mayo Clinic save money as an ACO?
Some insurance companies pushing plans with Mayo Clinic out of network
…the variations in the costs of health care demonstrated by the Dartmouth Atlas was the high costs of health care in Boca Raton, Florida when compared to Rochester, Minnesota, home…
Opinions of New Hampshire Physicians Contrast with Presidential Candidate Plans for Healthcare Reform
New Hampshire Medical Society For the betterment of public health since 1791 For Immediate Release December 18, 2007 Contacts: Dr. Seddon Savage, President, NH Medical Society 603-646-9215, seddon.savage@dartmouth.edu Dr. Gary…
