Month: February 2019

Recon takes an analytical look behind select developments in healthcare

There’s always a bigger fish: healthcare services giants are looking anxiously over their shoulders

Sophie Ranen February 24, 2019

With the closing of the CVS/AET and CI/ESRX combinations, healthcare services are now led by a triumvirate of vertically-oriented goliaths. And we can anticipate that there will be more care delivery acquisitions and investments to fill out the new vertical platforms—just as the leader UnitedHealth Group (UNH) continues to invest in its care delivery arm (with the pending acquisition of DaVita’s physician group) a decade after it first went into the clinic business. The extent to which the two new combinations have allowed legacy constituents CVS, AET, CI and ESRX

Methods towards better care: An opinionated take on NEJM highlights for January 2019

Marc Herant February 4, 2019

The bundle Unlike many other CMMI experiments, the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement (CJR) program was a true randomized control trial in that participation was mandatory in a selection of metropolitan areas and not allowed anywhere else, which allows for an analysis untainted by self-selection bias. In brief the question to be answered was does a 90-day bundled payment for a joint replacement (knee/hip) get better value (improved care and/or lower costs) than the traditional FFS approach? A differences of differences analysis comparing the bundled vs. control arms before and

Month: February 2019

Recon takes an analytical look behind select developments in healthcare

There’s always a bigger fish: healthcare services giants are looking anxiously over their shoulders

Methods towards better care: An opinionated take on NEJM highlights for January 2019

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