Therapy for polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) varies widely in clinical practice as international recommendations for PMR treatment are not currently available. In this paper, we report the 2015 European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR)/ American College of Rheumatology (ACR) recommendations for the management of PMR. We used the Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development and Evaluation (G...

BACKGROUND Fees charged for similar imaging tests often vary dramatically within the same market, leading to wide variation in insurer spending and consumer cost-sharing. Reference pricing is an insurance design that offers good coverage to patients up to a defined contribution limit but requires the patients who select high-priced facilities to pay the remainder out of pocket. OBJECTIVES To ...

Recent market and legislative changes to the health insurance industry, particularly the additional fees associated with the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and the current premium taxes paid on fully-insured plans has prompted the State of Wisconsin to consider the advisability of adopting a self-insurance arrangement for its state employee medical plan. Within a self-insured program, these fees and...

This paper derives the analytics of seller and buyer participation in an auction hosting site, characterizes optimal hosting site pricing and inves­ tigates the nature of competition between two auction houses or hosting sites that are differentiated in the eyes of the bidders. The auction sites earn revenue by setting positive listing fees, trading off the increased revenue per seller from hig...