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Health Care Costs: The actual costs of providing services related to the delivery of health care, including the costs of procedures, therapies, and medications. It is differentiated from HEALTH EXPENDITURES, which refers to the amount of money paid for the services, and from fees, which refers to the amount charged, regardless of cost.Costs and Cost Analysis: Absolute, comparative, or differential costs pertaining to services, institutions, resources, etc., or the analysis and study of these costs.Health Status: The level of health of the individual, group, or population as subjectively assessed by the individual or by more objective measures.Public Health: Branch of medicine concerned with the prevention and control of disease and disability, and the promotion of physical and mental health of the population on the international, national, state, or municipal level.Delivery of Health Care: The concept concerned with all aspects of providing and distributing health services to a patient population.Cost of Illness: The personal cost of acute or chronic disease. The cost to the patient may be an economic, social, or psychological cost or personal loss to self, family, or immediate community. The cost of illness may be reflected in absenteeism, productivity, response to treatment, peace of mind, or QUALITY OF LIFE. It differs from HEALTH CARE COSTS, meaning the societal cost of providing services related to the delivery of health care, rather than personal impact on individuals.Health Policy: Decisions, usually developed by government policymakers, for determining present and future objectives pertaining to the health care system.Drug Costs: The amount that a health care institution or organization pays for its drugs. It is one component of the final price that is charged to the consumer (FEES, PHARMACEUTICAL or PRESCRIPTION FEES).Health Care Reform: Innovation and improvement of the health care system by reappraisal, amendment of services, and removal of faults and abuses in providing and distributing health services to patients. It includes a re-alignment of health services and health insurance to maximum demographic elements (the unemployed, indigent, uninsured, elderly, inner cities, rural areas) with reference to coverage, hospitalization, pricing and cost containment, insurers' and employers' costs, pre-existing medical conditions, prescribed drugs, equipment, and services.Health Surveys: A systematic collection of factual data pertaining to health and disease in a human population within a given geographic area.Health Promotion: Encouraging consumer behaviors most likely to optimize health potentials (physical and psychosocial) through health information, preventive programs, and access to medical care.Mental Health: The state wherein the person is well adjusted.Health: The state of the organism when it functions optimally without evidence of disease.Health Services Accessibility: The degree to which individuals are inhibited or facilitated in their ability to gain entry to and to receive care and services from the health care system. Factors influencing this ability include geographic, architectural, transportational, and financial considerations, among others.Health Care Surveys: Statistical measures of utilization and other aspects of the provision of health care services including hospitalization and ambulatory care.Attitude to Health: Public attitudes toward health, disease, and the medical care system.Health Planning: Planning for needed health and/or welfare services and facilities.Primary Health Care: Care which provides integrated, accessible health care services by clinicians who are accountable for addressing a large majority of personal health care needs, developing a sustained partnership with patients, and practicing in the context of family and community. (JAMA 1995;273(3):192)Health Services: Services for the diagnosis and treatment of disease and the maintenance of health.Quality of Health Care: The levels of excellence which characterize the health service or health care provided based on accepted standards of quality.Insurance, Health: Insurance providing coverage of medical, surgical, or hospital care in general or for which there is no specific heading.Health Behavior: Behaviors expressed by individuals to protect, maintain or promote their health status. For example, proper diet, and appropriate exercise are activities perceived to influence health status. Life style is closely associated with health behavior and factors influencing life style are socioeconomic, educational, and cultural.World Health: The concept pertaining to the health status of inhabitants of the world.Health Personnel: Men and women working in the provision of health services, whether as individual practitioners or employees of health institutions and programs, whether or not professionally trained, and whether or not subject to public regulation. (From A Discursive Dictionary of Health Care, 1976)Health Services Needs and Demand: Health services required by a population or community as well as the health services that the population or community is able and willing to pay for.Cost Control: The containment, regulation, or restraint of costs. Costs are said to be contained when the value of resources committed to an activity is not considered excessive. This determination is frequently subjective and dependent upon the specific geographic area of the activity being measured. (From Dictionary of Health Services Management, 2d ed)Health Education: Education that increases the awareness and favorably influences the attitudes and knowledge relating to the improvement of health on a personal or community basis.Oral Health: The optimal state of the mouth and normal functioning of the organs of the mouth without evidence of disease.Health Services Research: The integration of epidemiologic, sociological, economic, and other analytic sciences in the study of health services. Health services research is usually concerned with relationships between need, demand, supply, use, and outcome of health services. The aim of the research is evaluation, particularly in terms of structure, process, output, and outcome. (From Last, Dictionary of Epidemiology, 2d ed)Public Health Administration: Management of public health organizations or agencies.Health Expenditures: The amounts spent by individuals, groups, nations, or private or public organizations for total health care and/or its various components. These amounts may or may not be equivalent to the actual costs (HEALTH CARE COSTS) and may or may not be shared among the patient, insurers, and/or employers.Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice: Knowledge, attitudes, and associated behaviors which pertain to health-related topics such as PATHOLOGIC PROCESSES or diseases, their prevention, and treatment. This term refers to non-health workers and health workers (HEALTH PERSONNEL).Cost-Benefit Analysis: A method of comparing the cost of a program with its expected benefits in dollars (or other currency). The benefit-to-cost ratio is a measure of total return expected per unit of money spent. This analysis generally excludes consideration of factors that are not measured ultimately in economic terms. Cost effectiveness compares alternative ways to achieve a specific set of results.Environmental Health: The science of controlling or modifying those conditions, influences, or forces surrounding man which relate to promoting, establishing, and maintaining health.Occupational Health: The promotion and maintenance of physical and mental health in the work environment.Patient Acceptance of Health Care: The seeking and acceptance by patients of health service.Health Status Disparities: Variation in rates of disease occurrence and disabilities between population groups defined by socioeconomic characteristics such as age, ethnicity, economic resources, or gender and populations identified geographically or similar measures.Health Care Rationing: Planning for the equitable allocation, apportionment, or distribution of available health resources.Delivery of Health Care, Integrated: A health care system which combines physicians, hospitals, and other medical services with a health plan to provide the complete spectrum of medical care for its customers. In a fully integrated system, the three key elements - physicians, hospital, and health plan membership - are in balance in terms of matching medical resources with the needs of purchasers and patients. (Coddington et al., Integrated Health Care: Reorganizing the Physician, Hospital and Health Plan Relationship, 1994, p7)Health Priorities: Preferentially rated health-related activities or functions to be used in establishing health planning goals. This may refer specifically to PL93-641.Mental Health Services: Organized services to provide mental health care.Cost Sharing: Provisions of an insurance policy that require the insured to pay some portion of covered expenses. Several forms of sharing are in use, e.g., deductibles, coinsurance, and copayments. Cost sharing does not refer to or include amounts paid in premiums for the coverage. (From Dictionary of Health Services Management, 2d ed)Public Health Practice: The activities and endeavors of the public health services in a community on any level.National Health Programs: Components of a national health care system which administer specific services, e.g., national health insurance.Direct Service Costs: Costs which are directly identifiable with a particular service.Health Care Sector: Economic sector concerned with the provision, distribution, and consumption of health care services and related products.Rural Health: The status of health in rural populations.Community Health Services: Diagnostic, therapeutic and preventive health services provided for individuals in the community.Women's Health: The concept covering the physical and mental conditions of women.Outcome Assessment (Health Care): Research aimed at assessing the quality and effectiveness of health care as measured by the attainment of a specified end result or outcome. Measures include parameters such as improved health, lowered morbidity or mortality, and improvement of abnormal states (such as elevated blood pressure).Health Resources: Available manpower, facilities, revenue, equipment, and supplies to produce requisite health care and services.Urban Health: The status of health in urban populations.Child Health Services: Organized services to provide health care for children.Health Literacy: Degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions.Attitude of Health Personnel: Attitudes of personnel toward their patients, other professionals, toward the medical care system, etc.World Health Organization: A specialized agency of the United Nations designed as a coordinating authority on international health work; its aim is to promote the attainment of the highest possible level of health by all peoples.Cost Allocation: The assignment, to each of several particular cost-centers, of an equitable proportion of the costs of activities that serve all of them. Cost-center usually refers to institutional departments or services.Rural Health Services: Health services, public or private, in rural areas. The services include the promotion of health and the delivery of health care.Health Facilities: Institutions which provide medical or health-related services.Community Health Planning: Planning that has the goals of improving health, improving accessibility to health services, and promoting efficiency in the provision of services and resources on a comprehensive basis for a whole community. (From Facts on File Dictionary of Health Care Management, 1988, p299)Socioeconomic Factors: Social and economic factors that characterize the individual or group within the social structure.Regional Health Planning: Planning for health resources at a regional or multi-state level.Health Manpower: The availability of HEALTH PERSONNEL. It includes the demand and recruitment of both professional and allied health personnel, their present and future supply and distribution, and their assignment and utilization.Quality Assurance, Health Care: Activities and programs intended to assure or improve the quality of care in either a defined medical setting or a program. The concept includes the assessment or evaluation of the quality of care; identification of problems or shortcomings in the delivery of care; designing activities to overcome these deficiencies; and follow-up monitoring to ensure effectiveness of corrective steps.Cross-Sectional Studies: Studies in which the presence or absence of disease or other health-related variables are determined in each member of the study population or in a representative sample at one particular time. This contrasts with LONGITUDINAL STUDIES which are followed over a period of time.Community Health Centers: Facilities which administer the delivery of health care services to people living in a community or neighborhood.Preventive Health Services: Services designed for HEALTH PROMOTION and prevention of disease.Health Benefit Plans, Employee: Health insurance plans for employees, and generally including their dependents, usually on a cost-sharing basis with the employer paying a percentage of the premium.Public Health Nursing: A nursing specialty concerned with promoting and protecting the health of populations, using knowledge from nursing, social, and public health sciences to develop local, regional, state, and national health policy and research. It is population-focused and community-oriented, aimed at health promotion and disease prevention through educational, diagnostic, and preventive programs.Maternal Health Services: Organized services to provide health care to expectant and nursing mothers.Electronic Health Records: Media that facilitate transportability of pertinent information concerning patient's illness across varied providers and geographic locations. Some versions include direct linkages to online consumer health information that is relevant to the health conditions and treatments related to a specific patient.Employer Health Costs: That portion of total HEALTH CARE COSTS borne by an individual's or group's employing organization.Health Occupations: Professions or other business activities directed to the cure and prevention of disease. For occupations of medical personnel who are not physicians but who are working in the fields of medical technology, physical therapy, etc., ALLIED HEALTH OCCUPATIONS is available.Reproductive Health: The physical condition of human reproductive systems.Occupational Health Services: Health services for employees, usually provided by the employer at the place of work.Health Services for the Aged: Services for the diagnosis and treatment of diseases in the aged and the maintenance of health in the elderly.State Health Plans: State plans prepared by the State Health Planning and Development Agencies which are made up from plans submitted by the Health Systems Agencies and subject to review and revision by the Statewide Health Coordinating Council.Prevalence: The total number of cases of a given disease in a specified population at a designated time. It is differentiated from INCIDENCE, which refers to the number of new cases in the population at a given time.Health Services Administration: The organization and administration of health services dedicated to the delivery of health care.Great BritainPublic Health Informatics: The systematic application of information and computer sciences to public health practice, research, and learning.Politics: Activities concerned with governmental policies, functions, etc.Interviews as Topic: Conversations with an individual or individuals held in order to obtain information about their background and other personal biographical data, their attitudes and opinions, etc. It includes school admission or job interviews.Health Plan Implementation: Those actions designed to carry out recommendations pertaining to health plans or programs.Outcome and Process Assessment (Health Care): Evaluation procedures that focus on both the outcome or status (OUTCOMES ASSESSMENT) of the patient at the end of an episode of care - presence of symptoms, level of activity, and mortality; and the process (ASSESSMENT, PROCESS) - what is done for the patient diagnostically and therapeutically.National Institutes of Health (U.S.): An operating division of the US Department of Health and Human Services. It is concerned with the overall planning, promoting, and administering of programs pertaining to health and medical research. Until 1995, it was an agency of the United States PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE.Quality of Life: A generic concept reflecting concern with the modification and enhancement of life attributes, e.g., physical, political, moral and social environment; the overall condition of a human life.Program Evaluation: Studies designed to assess the efficacy of programs. They may include the evaluation of cost-effectiveness, the extent to which objectives are met, or impact.Catchment Area (Health): A geographic area defined and served by a health program or institution.Quality-Adjusted Life Years: A measurement index derived from a modification of standard life-table procedures and designed to take account of the quality as well as the duration of survival. This index can be used in assessing the outcome of health care procedures or services. (BIOETHICS Thesaurus, 1994)Quality Indicators, Health Care: Norms, criteria, standards, and other direct qualitative and quantitative measures used in determining the quality of health care.Health Care Coalitions: Voluntary groups of people representing diverse interests in the community such as hospitals, businesses, physicians, and insurers, with the principal objective to improve health care cost effectiveness.Women's Health Services: Organized services to provide health care to women. It excludes maternal care services for which MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICES is available.Poverty: A situation in which the level of living of an individual, family, or group is below the standard of the community. It is often related to a specific income level.Reproductive Health Services: Health care services related to human REPRODUCTION and diseases of the reproductive system. Services are provided to both sexes and usually by physicians in the medical or the surgical specialties such as REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE; ANDROLOGY; GYNECOLOGY; OBSTETRICS; and PERINATOLOGY.Health Services, Indigenous: Health care provided to specific cultural or tribal peoples which incorporates local customs, beliefs, and taboos.Urban Health Services: Health services, public or private, in urban areas. The services include the promotion of health and the delivery of health care.Health Records, Personal: Longitudinal patient-maintained records of individual health history and tools that allow individual control of access.Mental Disorders: Psychiatric illness or diseases manifested by breakdowns in the adaptational process expressed primarily as abnormalities of thought, feeling, and behavior producing either distress or impairment of function.Family Health: The health status of the family as a unit including the impact of the health of one member of the family on the family as a unit and on individual family members; also, the impact of family organization or disorganization on the health status of its members.Managed Care Programs: Health insurance plans intended to reduce unnecessary health care costs through a variety of mechanisms, including: economic incentives for physicians and patients to select less costly forms of care; programs for reviewing the medical necessity of specific services; increased beneficiary cost sharing; controls on inpatient admissions and lengths of stay; the establishment of cost-sharing incentives for outpatient surgery; selective contracting with health care providers; and the intensive management of high-cost health care cases. The programs may be provided in a variety of settings, such as HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATIONS and PREFERRED PROVIDER ORGANIZATIONS.Men's Health: The concept covering the physical and mental conditions of men.Questionnaires: Predetermined sets of questions used to collect data - clinical data, social status, occupational group, etc. The term is often applied to a self-completed survey instrument.Health Planning Guidelines: Recommendations for directing health planning functions and policies. These may be mandated by PL93-641 and issued by the Department of Health and Human Services for use by state and local planning agencies.Health Maintenance Organizations: Organized systems for providing comprehensive prepaid health care that have five basic attributes: (1) provide care in a defined geographic area; (2) provide or ensure delivery of an agreed-upon set of basic and supplemental health maintenance and treatment services; (3) provide care to a voluntarily enrolled group of persons; (4) require their enrollees to use the services of designated providers; and (5) receive reimbursement through a predetermined, fixed, periodic prepayment made by the enrollee without regard to the degree of services provided. (From Facts on File Dictionary of Health Care Management, 1988)Financing, Government: Federal, state, or local government organized methods of financial assistance.Allied Health Personnel: Health care workers specially trained and licensed to assist and support the work of health professionals. Often used synonymously with paramedical personnel, the term generally refers to all health care workers who perform tasks which must otherwise be performed by a physician or other health professional.Population Surveillance: Ongoing scrutiny of a population (general population, study population, target population, etc.), generally using methods distinguished by their practicability, uniformity, and frequently their rapidity, rather than by complete accuracy.Community Mental Health Services: Diagnostic, therapeutic and preventive mental health services provided for individuals in the community.Health Planning Support: Financial resources provided for activities related to health planning and development.Social Justice: An interactive process whereby members of a community are concerned for the equality and rights of all.Logistic Models: Statistical models which describe the relationship between a qualitative dependent variable (that is, one which can take only certain discrete values, such as the presence or absence of a disease) and an independent variable. A common application is in epidemiology for estimating an individual's risk (probability of a disease) as a function of a given risk factor.Adolescent Health Services: Organized services to provide health care to adolescents, ages ranging from 13 through 18 years.Policy Making: The decision process by which individuals, groups or institutions establish policies pertaining to plans, programs or procedures.Comprehensive Health Care: Providing for the full range of personal health services for diagnosis, treatment, follow-up and rehabilitation of patients.School Health Services: Preventive health services provided for students. It excludes college or university students.Age Factors: Age as a constituent element or influence contributing to the production of a result. It may be applicable to the cause or the effect of a circumstance. It is used with human or animal concepts but should be differentiated from AGING, a physiological process, and TIME FACTORS which refers only to the passage of time.Consumer Participation: Community or individual involvement in the decision-making process.Infant, Newborn: An infant during the first month after birth.Schools, Public Health: Educational institutions for individuals specializing in the field of public health.Healthcare Disparities: Differences in access to or availability of medical facilities and services.Insurance Coverage: Generally refers to the amount of protection available and the kind of loss which would be paid for under an insurance contract with an insurer. (Slee & Slee, Health Care Terms, 2d ed)Rural Population: The inhabitants of rural areas or of small towns classified as rural.United States Dept. of Health and Human Services: A cabinet department in the Executive Branch of the United States Government concerned with administering those agencies and offices having programs pertaining to health and human services.State Medicine: A system of medical care regulated, controlled and financed by the government, in which the government assumes responsibility for the health needs of the population.Marketing of Health Services: Application of marketing principles and techniques to maximize the use of health care resources.Private Sector: That distinct portion of the institutional, industrial, or economic structure of a country that is controlled or owned by non-governmental, private interests.Chronic Disease: Diseases which have one or more of the following characteristics: they are permanent, leave residual disability, are caused by nonreversible pathological alteration, require special training of the patient for rehabilitation, or may be expected to require a long period of supervision, observation, or care. (Dictionary of Health Services Management, 2d ed)Cohort Studies: Studies in which subsets of a defined population are identified. These groups may or may not be exposed to factors hypothesized to influence the probability of the occurrence of a particular disease or other outcome. Cohorts are defined populations which, as a whole, are followed in an attempt to determine distinguishing subgroup characteristics.Models, Economic: Statistical models of the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services, as well as of financial considerations. For the application of statistics to the testing and quantifying of economic theories MODELS, ECONOMETRIC is available.Sex Factors: Maleness or femaleness as a constituent element or influence contributing to the production of a result. It may be applicable to the cause or effect of a circumstance. It is used with human or animal concepts but should be differentiated from SEX CHARACTERISTICS, anatomical or physiological manifestations of sex, and from SEX DISTRIBUTION, the number of males and females in given circumstances.Qualitative Research: Any type of research that employs nonnumeric information to explore individual or group characteristics, producing findings not arrived at by statistical procedures or other quantitative means. (Qualitative Inquiry: A Dictionary of Terms Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1997)Financing, Personal: Payment by individuals or their family for health care services which are not covered by a third-party payer, either insurance or medical assistance.Time Factors: Elements of limited time intervals, contributing to particular results or situations.Needs Assessment: Systematic identification of a population's needs or the assessment of individuals to determine the proper level of services needed.Health Food: A non-medical term defined by the lay public as a food that has little or no preservatives, which has not undergone major processing, enrichment or refinement and which may be grown without pesticides. (from Segen, The Dictionary of Modern Medicine, 1992)Hospitalization: The confinement of a patient in a hospital.Health Fairs: Community health education events focused on prevention of disease and promotion of health through audiovisual exhibits.Prospective Studies: Observation of a population for a sufficient number of persons over a sufficient number of years to generate incidence or mortality rates subsequent to the selection of the study group.Longitudinal Studies: Studies in which variables relating to an individual or group of individuals are assessed over a period of time.Cooperative Behavior: The interaction of two or more persons or organizations directed toward a common goal which is mutually beneficial. An act or instance of working or acting together for a common purpose or benefit, i.e., joint action. (From Random House Dictionary Unabridged, 2d ed)Health Communication: The transfer of information from experts in the medical and public health fields to patients and the public. The study and use of communication strategies to inform and influence individual and community decisions that enhance health.Program Development: The process of formulating, improving, and expanding educational, managerial, or service-oriented work plans (excluding computer program development).Educational Status: Educational attainment or level of education of individuals.Retrospective Studies: Studies used to test etiologic hypotheses in which inferences about an exposure to putative causal factors are derived from data relating to characteristics of persons under study or to events or experiences in their past. The essential feature is that some of the persons under study have the disease or outcome of interest and their characteristics are compared with those of unaffected persons.Mass Screening: Organized periodic procedures performed on large groups of people for the purpose of detecting disease.EnglandDental Health Services: Services designed to promote, maintain, or restore dental health.Social Class: A stratum of people with similar position and prestige; includes social stratification. Social class is measured by criteria such as education, occupation, and income.Pregnancy: The status during which female mammals carry their developing young (EMBRYOS or FETUSES) in utero before birth, beginning from FERTILIZATION to BIRTH.Australia: The smallest continent and an independent country, comprising six states and two territories. Its capital is Canberra.Public Policy: A course or method of action selected, usually by a government, from among alternatives to guide and determine present and future decisions.Universal Coverage: Health insurance coverage for all persons in a state or country, rather than for some subset of the population. It may extend to the unemployed as well as to the employed; to aliens as well as to citizens; for pre-existing conditions as well as for current illnesses; for mental as well as for physical conditions.Prepaid Health Plans: Contracts between an insurer and a subscriber or a group of subscribers whereby a specified set of health benefits is provided in return for a periodic premium.Public Sector: The area of a nation's economy that is tax-supported and under government control.International Cooperation: The interaction of persons or groups of persons representing various nations in the pursuit of a common goal or interest.United States Public Health Service: A constituent organization of the DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES concerned with protecting and improving the health of the nation.Organizational Objectives: The purposes, missions, and goals of an individual organization or its units, established through administrative processes. It includes an organization's long-range plans and administrative philosophy.Budgets: Detailed financial plans for carrying out specific activities for a certain period of time. They include proposed income and expenditures.Treatment Outcome: Evaluation undertaken to assess the results or consequences of management and procedures used in combating disease in order to determine the efficacy, effectiveness, safety, and practicability of these interventions in individual cases or series.Government Agencies: Administrative units of government responsible for policy making and management of governmental activities.Employment: The state of being engaged in an activity or service for wages or salary.Organizational Case Studies: Descriptions and evaluations of specific health care organizations.Medicaid: Federal program, created by Public Law 89-97, Title XIX, a 1965 amendment to the Social Security Act, administered by the states, that provides health care benefits to indigent and medically indigent persons.Ambulatory Care: Health care services provided to patients on an ambulatory basis, rather than by admission to a hospital or other health care facility. The services may be a part of a hospital, augmenting its inpatient services, or may be provided at a free-standing facility.Regression Analysis: Procedures for finding the mathematical function which best describes the relationship between a dependent variable and one or more independent variables. In linear regression (see LINEAR MODELS) the relationship is constrained to be a straight line and LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS is used to determine the best fit. In logistic regression (see LOGISTIC MODELS) the dependent variable is qualitative rather than continuously variable and LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS are used to find the best relationship. In multiple regression, the dependent variable is considered to depend on more than a single independent variable.Residence Characteristics: Elements of residence that characterize a population. They are applicable in determining need for and utilization of health services.Interinstitutional Relations: The interactions between representatives of institutions, agencies, or organizations.Health Planning Councils: Organized groups serving in advisory capacities related to health planning activities.Urban Population: The inhabitants of a city or town, including metropolitan areas and suburban areas.Health Transition: Demographic and epidemiologic changes that have occurred in the last five decades in many developing countries and that are characterized by major growth in the number and proportion of middle-aged and elderly persons and in the frequency of the diseases that occur in these age groups. The health transition is the result of efforts to improve maternal and child health via primary care and outreach services and such efforts have been responsible for a decrease in the birth rate; reduced maternal mortality; improved preventive services; reduced infant mortality, and the increased life expectancy that defines the transition. (From Ann Intern Med 1992 Mar 15;116(6):499-504)Efficiency, Organizational: The capacity of an organization, institution, or business to produce desired results with a minimum expenditure of energy, time, money, personnel, materiel, etc.Occupational Health Nursing: The practice of nursing in the work environment.Follow-Up Studies: Studies in which individuals or populations are followed to assess the outcome of exposures, procedures, or effects of a characteristic, e.g., occurrence of disease.Maternal-Child Health Centers: Facilities which administer the delivery of health care services to mothers and children.Medically Uninsured: Individuals or groups with no or inadequate health insurance coverage. Those falling into this category usually comprise three primary groups: the medically indigent (MEDICAL INDIGENCY); those whose clinical condition makes them medically uninsurable; and the working uninsured.Patient Satisfaction: The degree to which the individual regards the health care service or product or the manner in which it is delivered by the provider as useful, effective, or beneficial.Fees and Charges: Amounts charged to the patient as payer for health care services.Financing, Organized: All organized methods of funding.Education, Public Health Professional: Education and training in PUBLIC HEALTH for the practice of the profession.Insurance, Health, Reimbursement: Payment by a third-party payer in a sum equal to the amount expended by a health care provider or facility for health services rendered to an insured or program beneficiary. (From Facts on File Dictionary of Health Care Management, 1988)History, 20th Century: Time period from 1901 through 2000 of the common era.Decision Making, Organizational: The process by which decisions are made in an institution or other organization.Social Determinants of Health: The circumstances in which people are born, grow up, live, work, and age, as well as the systems put in place to deal with illness. These circumstances are in turn shaped by a wider set of forces: economics, social policies, and politics (http://www.cdc.gov/socialdeterminants/).Pilot Projects: Small-scale tests of methods and procedures to be used on a larger scale if the pilot study demonstrates that these methods and procedures can work.Research Design: A plan for collecting and utilizing data so that desired information can be obtained with sufficient precision or so that an hypothesis can be tested properly.Holistic Health: Health as viewed from the perspective that humans and other organisms function as complete, integrated units rather than as aggregates of separate parts.BrazilSocial Support: Support systems that provide assistance and encouragement to individuals with physical or emotional disabilities in order that they may better cope. Informal social support is usually provided by friends, relatives, or peers, while formal assistance is provided by churches, groups, etc.Efficiency: Ratio of output to effort, or the ratio of effort produced to energy expended.Stress, Psychological: Stress wherein emotional factors predominate.Smoking: Inhaling and exhaling the smoke of burning TOBACCO.IndiaEthnic Groups: A group of people with a common cultural heritage that sets them apart from others in a variety of social relationships.Consumer Satisfaction: Customer satisfaction or dissatisfaction with a benefit or service received.Models, Theoretical: Theoretical representations that simulate the behavior or activity of systems, processes, or phenomena. They include the use of mathematical equations, computers, and other electronic equipment.State Government: The level of governmental organization and function below that of the national or country-wide government.Demography: Statistical interpretation and description of a population with reference to distribution, composition, or structure.Dental Health Surveys: A systematic collection of factual data pertaining to dental or oral health and disease in a human population within a given geographic area.Social Responsibility: The obligations and accountability assumed in carrying out actions or ideas on behalf of others.National Health Insurance, United States

Development of the physical therapy outpatient satisfaction survey (PTOPS). (1/4244)

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: The purposes of this 3-phase study were (1) to identify the underlying components of outpatient satisfaction in physical therapy and (2) to develop a test that would yield reliable and valid measurements of these components. SUBJECTS: Three samples, consisting of 177, 257, and 173 outpatients from 21 facilities, were used in phases 1, 2, and 3, respectively. METHODS AND RESULTS: In phase 1, principal component analyses (PCAs), reliability checks, and correlations with social desirability scales were used to reduce a pool of 98 items to 32 items. These analyses identified a 5-component model of outpatient satisfaction in physical therapy. The phase 2 PCA, with a revised pool of 48 items, indicated that 4 components rather than 5 components represented the best model and resulted in the 34-item Physical Therapy Outpatient Satisfaction Survey (PTOPS). Factor analyses conducted with phase 2 and phase 3 data supported this conclusion and provided evidence for the internal validity of the PTOPS scores. The 4-component scales were labeled "Enhancers," "Detractors," "Location," and "Cost." Responses from subsamples of phase 3 subjects provided evidence for validity of scores in that the PTOPS components of "Enhancers," "Detractors," and "Cost" appeared to differentiate overtly satisfied patients from overtly dissatisfied patients. "Location" and "Enhancer" scores discriminated subjects with excellent attendance at scheduled physical therapy sessions from those with poor attendance. CONCLUSION AND DISCUSSION: In this study, we identified components of outpatient satisfaction in physical therapy and used them to develop a test that would yield valid and reliable measurements of these components.  (+info)

Screening Mammography Program of British Columbia: pattern of use and health care system costs. (2/4244)

BACKGROUND: The use of mammography for screening asymptomatic women has increased dramatically in the past decade. This report describes the changes that have occurred in the use of bilateral mammography in British Columbia since the provincial breast cancer screening program began in 1988. METHODS: Using province-wide databases from both the breast cancer screening program and the provincial health insurance plan in BC, the authors determined the number and costs of bilateral mammography services for women aged 40 years or older between Apr. 1, 1986, and Mar. 31, 1997. Unilateral mammography was excluded because it is used for investigating symptomatic disease and screening abnormalities, and for follow-up of women who have undergone mastectomy for cancer. RESULTS: As the provincial breast cancer screening program expanded from 1 site in 1988 to 23 in 1997, it provided an increasing proportion of the bilateral mammographic examinations carried out each year in BC. In fiscal year 1996/97, 65% of bilateral mammographic examinations were performed through the screening program. The cost per examination within the screening program dropped as volume increased. Thirty percent more bilateral mammography examinations were done in 1996/97 than in 1991/92, but health care system expenditures for these services increased by only 4% during the same period. In calendar year 1996, 21% of new breast cancers were diagnosed as a result of a screening program visit. INTERPRETATION: Substantial increases in health care expenditures have been avoided by shifting bilateral mammography services to the provincial screening program, which has a lower cost per screening visit.  (+info)

The economic burden of asthma: direct and indirect costs in Switzerland. (3/4244)

Asthma mortality increased in Switzerland between 1980 and 1994. This study aimed to assess the economic burden of asthma in this country. Chart reviews were conducted for the last five patients seen for asthma in physician practices in 1996 and 1997. Direct expenditures and indirect costs for asthma-related morbidity were determined. A total of 589 patient charts were completely analysed, including 117 children's charts, obtained from 120 office-based physicians. The annual direct medical costs were CHF 1,778 and the mean annual indirect costs were CHF 1,019 per patient for all patients. The total estimated cost of asthma in Switzerland in 1997 was nearly CHF 1,252 million. Direct medical expenditures approached CHF 762 million, or 61% of the total. In 1997, the indirect costs for asthma were estimated to have exceeded CHF 490 million. Of these costs CHF 123 million (25%) was associated with morbidity and nearly CHF 368 million (75%) was associated with looking after asthmatic patients who had to be cared for at home. This study provides evidence that asthma is a major healthcare cost factor in Switzerland, amounting to approximately CHF 1,200 million per year. The data suggest that cost savings can be achieved by improving primary care for asthma in an ambulatory setting.  (+info)

The cost of obesity in Canada. (4/4244)

BACKGROUND: Almost one-third of adult Canadians are at increased risk of disability, disease and premature death because of being obese. In order to allocate limited health care resources rationally, it is necessary to elucidate the economic burden of obesity. OBJECTIVE: To estimate the direct costs related to the treatment of and research into obesity in Canada in 1997. METHODS: The prevalence of obesity (body mass index of 27 or greater) in Canada was determined using data from the National Population Health Survey, 1994-1995. Ten comorbidities of obesity were identified from the medical literature. A population attributable fraction (PAF) was calculated for each comorbidity with data from large cohort studies to determine the extent to which each comorbidity and its management costs were attributable to obesity. The direct cost of each comorbidity was determined using data from the Canadian Institute of Health Information (for direct expenditure categories) and from Health Canada (for the proportion of expenditure category attributable to the comorbidity). This prevalence-based approach identified the direct costs of hospital care, physician services, services of other health professionals, drugs, other health care and health research. For each comorbidity, the cost attributable to obesity was determined by multiplying the PAF by the total direct cost of the comorbidity. The overall impact of obesity was estimated as the sum of the PAF-weighted costs of treating the comorbidities. A sensitivity analysis was completed on both the estimated costs and the PAFs. RESULTS: The total direct cost of obesity in Canada in 1997 was estimated to be over $1.8 billion. This corresponded to 2.4% of the total health care expenditures for all diseases in Canada in 1997. The sensitivity analysis revealed that the total cost could be as high as $3.5 billion or as low as $829.4 million; this corresponded to 4.6% and 1.1% respectively of the total health care expenditures in 1997. When the contributions of the comorbidities to the total cost were considered, the 3 largest contributors were hypertension ($656.6 million), type 2 diabetes mellitus ($423.2 million) and coronary artery disease ($346.0 million). INTERPRETATION: A considerable proportion of health care dollars is devoted to the treatment and management of obesity-related comorbidities in Canada. Further research into the therapeutic benefits and cost-effectiveness of management strategies for obesity is required. It is anticipated that the prevention and treatment of obesity will have major positive effects on the overall cost of health care.  (+info)

The economic impact of Staphylococcus aureus infection in New York City hospitals. (5/4244)

We modeled estimates of the incidence, deaths, and direct medical costs of Staphylococcus aureus infections in hospitalized patients in the New York City metropolitan area in 1995 by using hospital discharge data collected by the New York State Department of Health and standard sources for the costs of health care. We also examined the relative impact of methicillin-resistant versus -sensitive strains of S. aureus and of community-acquired versus nosocomial infections. S. aureus-associated hospitalizations resulted in approximately twice the length of stay, deaths, and medical costs of typical hospitalizations; methicillin-resistant and -sensitive infections had similar direct medical costs, but resistant infections caused more deaths (21% versus 8%). Community-acquired and nosocomial infections had similar death rates, but community-acquired infections appeared to have increased direct medical costs per patient ($35,300 versus $28,800). The results of our study indicate that reducing the incidence of methicillin-resistant and -sensitive nosocomial infections would reduce the societal costs of S. aureus infection.  (+info)

Mixed signals: public policy and the future of health care R&D. (6/4244)

The incentives facing health care research and development (R&D) are influenced by the ambiguous signals sent by private and public insurance decisions affecting the use of, and payments for, existing technologies. Increasingly, that uncertainty is exacerbated by confusion over technologies' impact on health care costs, how costs are to be measured, and the social difficulty of determining medical "need" for purposes of insurance coverage. R&D executives appear to believe that "major" advances are more likely to win such coverage and thus to be profitable. The products that result, therefore, may make the current policy dilemma of cost containment versus service restriction more acute rather than less so. If the aim of policy is to cut costs, innovative remedies are necessary.  (+info)

Use of resources and costs of palliative care with parenteral fluids and analgesics in the home setting for patients with end-stage cancer. (7/4244)

BACKGROUND: In 1992 a home care technology project was started in which infusion therapy in the home setting was made available for patients with end-stage cancer. Beside aspects of feasibility and quality of life the resource utilization and costs of this transition was studied. PATIENTS AND METHODS: We conducted a cost evaluation study, to determine the actual cost of managing patients with endstage cancer who require parenteral administration of fluid or analgesics in the home setting. A total of 128 patients were prospectively followed, with a detailed analysis of some aspects in a sample of 24 patients. RESULTS: The cost for each patient was found to be between $250.00 and $300.00 per day, half of which are for hospital charges, even with this active home care technology program. One-third of the costs can be attributed to primary health care activities, in particular those of the district nurses. A hypothetical control group (n = 25) was constructed based on current practice and chart review. Patients in this group would have cost around $750.00 per day. With a median treatment period of 16 days this means a saving of $8000.00 per patient. CONCLUSION: Our data suggest that significant savings can be obtained by implementing programs transferring palliative care technology to the home setting.  (+info)

Breast cancer screening by mammography in Norway. Is it cost-effective? (8/4244)

BACKGROUND: Mammography screening is a promising method for improving prognosis in breast cancer. PATIENTS AND METHODS: In this economic analysis, data from the Norwegian Mammography Project (NMP), the National Health Administration (NMA) and the Norwegian Medical Association (NMA) were employed in a model for cost-effectiveness analysis. According to the annual report of the NMP for 1996, 60,147 women aged 50-69 years had been invited to a two-yearly mammographic screening programme 46,329 (77%) had been screened and 337 (0.7%) breast cancers had been revealed. The use of breast conserving surgery (BCS) was in this study estimated raised by 17% due to screening, the breast cancer mortality decreased by 30% and the number of life years saved per prevented breast cancer death was calculated 15 years. RESULTS: The cost per woman screened was calculated 75.4 Pounds, the cost per cancer detected 10.365 Pounds and the cost per life year (LY) saved 8.561 Pounds. A raised frequency of BCS, diagnosis and adjuvant chemotherapy brought two years forward, follow-up costs and costs/savings due to prevented breast cancer deaths were all included in the analysis. A sensitivity analysis documented mammography screening cost-effective in Norway when four to nine years are gained per prevented breast cancer death. CONCLUSION: Mammography screening in Norway looks cost-effective. Time has come to encourage national screening programmes.  (+info)

Impact of Hypertension on Healthcare Costs Among ChildrenImpact of Hypertension on Healthcare Costs Among Children
This study demonstrates a major influence of prehypertension and hypertension on healthcare costs in a large cohort of children, independent of body mass index.
Living with Ulcerative Colitis Study (LUCY) in England: a retrospective study evaluating healthcare resource utilisation and...Living with Ulcerative Colitis Study (LUCY) in England: a retrospective study evaluating healthcare resource utilisation and...
Living with Ulcerative Colitis Study (LUCY) in England: a retrospective study evaluating healthcare resource utilisation and direct healthcare costs of postoperative care in ulcerative colitis ...
Tanning beds tied to U.S. health costs of $343 million a year | ReutersTanning beds tied to U.S. health costs of $343 million a year | Reuters
By Lisa Rapaport(Reuters Health) - Skin cancers caused by indoor tanning are responsible for $343 million a year in direct medical costs for U.S. patients, a recent study suggests. On top of those direct healthcare costs, lost productivity and early deaths among patients with melanoma and other malignancies tied to tanning bed use will exceed $127 billion over the lifetime of the people currently diagnosed with these cancers, the study also found.
Rise in health-care costs more moderate in 2010, S&P report showsRise in health-care costs more moderate in 2010, S&P report shows
The average per-capita cost of health-care services covered by commercial insurance and Medicare increased at a more-moderate pace in 2010, according to data released today by Standard & Poors.. For 2010, health-care costs covered by commercial insurance rose by 7.75 percent and Medicare claim costs increased at 3.27 percent, the report said.. Compared to May 2010, commercial costs are down 2.13 percentage points and Medicare, down 3.57 percentage points.. "The December year-end report shows that the trend of slowing annual growth rates in health-care costs that started in early/mid-2010 continued through the end of 2010," says David M. Blitzer, chairman of the index committee at Standard & Poors.. Ann Schrader: 303-954-1967 or [email protected] ...
Medicare Supplement Plans | 9 Ways to Save on Healthcare CostsMedicare Supplement Plans | 9 Ways to Save on Healthcare Costs
Perhaps the best way to save money on healthcare during retirement is to find the right insurance plan for you, like Medicare Supplement plans.
James Lightwood, PhD | Center for Tobacco Control Research and EducationJames Lightwood, PhD | Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education
Research program involves estimating the changes in direct healthcare costs due to changes in smoking behavior in large populations, and changes in exposure to passive smoking and health care cost and utilization attributable to adoption of smoke-free laws. Dr. Lightwood has done research in cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analysis of disease prevention and management programs, cost savings attributable to smoking cessation, and the economics of infectious disease control. ...
The Socioeconomic Cost of Diseases in Korea.The Socioeconomic Cost of Diseases in Korea.
OBJECTIVES: The aim of the study was to estimate the annual socioeconomic cost of diseases in Korea. METHODS: We estimate both the direct and indirect costs of diseases in Korea during 2003 using a prevalence-based approach. The direct cost estimates included medical expenditures, traffic costs and caregivers cost, and the indirect costs, representing the loss of production, included lost workdays due to illness and lost earnings due to premature death, which were estimated based on the human capital theory. The cost estimates were reported at three different discount rates (0, 3 and 5%). RESULTS: The cost of diseases in Korea during 2003 was 38.4 trillion won based on 0% discount rate. This estimate represents approximately 5.3% of GDP. The direct and indirect costs were estimated to be 22.5 trillion (58.5% of total cost) and 15.9 trillion won (41.5%), respectively. It was also found that the cost for those aged 40~49 accounted for the largest proportion (21.7%) in relation to age groups. The ...
RePub, Erasmus University Repository: Real-world healthcare costs of ipilimumab in patients with advanced cutaneous melanoma...RePub, Erasmus University Repository: Real-world healthcare costs of ipilimumab in patients with advanced cutaneous melanoma...
There is limited evidence on the costs associated with ipilimumab. We investigated healthcare costs of all Dutch patients with advanced cutaneous melanoma who were treated with ipilimumab. Data were retrieved from the nation-wide Dutch Melanoma Treatment Registry. Costs were determined by applying unit costs to individual patient resource use. A total of 807 patients who were diagnosed between July 2012 and July 2015 received ipilimumab in Dutch practice. The mean (median) episode duration was 6.27 (4.61) months (computed from the start of ipilimumab until the start of a next treatment, death, or the last date of follow-up). The average total healthcare costs amounted to €81 484, but varied widely (range: €18 131-€160 002). Ipilimumab was by far the most important cost driver (€73 739). Other costs were related to hospital admissions (€3323), hospital visits (€1791), diagnostics and imaging (€1505), radiotherapy (€828), and surgery (€297). Monthly costs for resource use other ...
Healthcare costs in the Danish randomised controlled lung cancer CT-screening trial - Danish National Research Database-Den...Healthcare costs in the Danish randomised controlled lung cancer CT-screening trial - Danish National Research Database-Den...
OBJECTIVES: Low dose computerised tomography (CT) screening for lung cancer can reduce lung-cancer-specific mortality. The objective of this study was to analyse healthcare costs and healthcare utilisation of participants in the Danish lung cancer CT-screening trial (DLCST). MATERIALS AND METHODS: This registry study was nested in a randomised controlled trial (DLCST). 4104 participants, current or former heavy smokers, aged 50-70 years were randomised to five annual low dose CT scans or usual care during 2004-2010. Total healthcare costs and healthcare utilisation data for both the primary and the secondary healthcare sector were retrieved from public registries from randomisation - September 2011 and compared between (1) the CT-screening group and the control group and, (2) the control group and each of the true-positive, false-positive and true-negative groups. RESULTS: The median annual costs per participant were significantly higher in the CT-screening group (Euros [EUR] 1342, interquartile ...
S-WoPEc: Costs, Quality of Life and Disease Severity in Multiple Sclerosis - A Population-Based Cross-Sectional Study in SwedenS-WoPEc: Costs, Quality of Life and Disease Severity in Multiple Sclerosis - A Population-Based Cross-Sectional Study in Sweden
Freddie Henriksson (. ), Sten Fredrikson and Bengt J nsson (. ). Abstract: This study has used a cross-sectional, bottom-up design to determine the cost to society of multiple sclerosis (MS) in Sweden in 1998. The total cost of MS was estimated at 4 868 MSEK, meaning an annual cost of 442 500 SEK per patient. Direct costs accounted for about 67% of total cost, and direct costs were dominated by the cost of personal assistants and drugs. Indirect costs accounted for about 33% of total costs and were totally dominated by the cost of long-term sickness absence from work and early retirement. Intangible costs were estimated at 2 700 MSEK. A former Swedish study on MS for 1994, using main diagnosis to calculate costs, showed the total cost to be 1 736 MSEK. Increased disability as measured by EDSS was found to have a major impact on the cost of the disease and on quality of life. Both direct, indirect and informal care costs rose significantly with increased EDSS and were higher during a relapse. ...
Predictors of high healthcare costs in elderly patients with liver cancer in end-of-life: a longitudinal population-based study...Predictors of high healthcare costs in elderly patients with liver cancer in end-of-life: a longitudinal population-based study...
The novel findings of this study are that elderly liver cancer patients with HCs in their LML include patients receiving aggressive EOL cancer care such as ICU care, ventilator support, anticancer treatment, and a high number of admission days. Additionally, comorbidities such as CKD, esophageal varices with bleeding and receiving opioid medicine are significant independent positive predictors of HCs. However, patients with more admission times in the LML, comorbidities of ascites and hypertension were significantly negative predictors of HCs.. The cost of cancer care has increased dramatically in the past 20 years, particularly at EOL [26], thus taxing a burdened health care system. Carlson et al. reported that Medicare patients with healthcare costs greater than the 95th percentile consumed 40% of total Medicare costs from 1998 to 2002 [42]. In the current study, 212 patients (10%) had HCs (, US $5093 per person), accounting for 38.95% of the total healthcare costs of this population. Our ...
Engineering Lifelong Cellular Immunity to HIV | Californias Stem Cell AgencyEngineering Lifelong Cellular Immunity to HIV | California's Stem Cell Agency
California ranks second in the nation in cases of HIV, with over 170,000 persons currently living with HIV with the direct healthcare cost to California approaching $1.8 billion annually. A curative treatment is therefore a high priority. A stem cell based therapy offers promise for this goal, by providing an inexhaustible source of protected, HIV specific immune cells that would provide constant surveillance and potential eradication of the virus in the body.. ...
FRI0763-HPR Investigating the clinical and cost burden of primary sjÖgrens syndrome: a descriptive analysis from a us...FRI0763-HPR Investigating the clinical and cost burden of primary sjÖgren's syndrome: a descriptive analysis from a us...
Results There were 12,717 eligible patients in the primary cohort: the majority (86%) were female and the mean age was 51 years. Overall, 61% of patients had claims associated with extra-glandular disease manifestations. These patients experienced a higher disease burden with 41% reporting pain, fatigue and/or insomnia, compared with 12% of patients with glandular disease only who reported pain, fatigue and/or insomnia. Patients in the primary cohort incurred greater annual healthcare service costs (1.6 times greater for all causes and 1.5 times greater for pSS-related causes) and healthcare resource utilisation compared with the sicca-free comparator cohort. The largest difference in SS-related resource utilisation was in the number of office visits (primary cohort: 5.8 visits per patient; comparator cohort: 4.7 visits per patient). Patients with extra-glandular disease also incurred greater average annual costs and used more healthcare resources than patients with glandular disease only. ...
Healthcare use and costs in relation to body mass index in over one million middle-aged and older women in England - Health...Healthcare use and costs in relation to body mass index in over one million middle-aged and older women in England - Health...
Excess weight is a common condition associated with an increased incidence of conditions including type-2 diabetes, vascular diseases, osteoarthritis, depression, and certain cancers, as well as with higher mortality. It is also associated with higher total healthcare spending, but the associations with different types of healthcare services are not well understood. In addition, most evidence comes from the US, with no reliable individual participant data pertaining directly to the UK. Given differences between countries in terms of healthcare organisation, delivery, and financing, and in population characteristics, it is important to generate evidence for different jurisdictions. This project summarises the existing evidence on healthcare costs in relation to body mass index, and provides novel estimates for the UK. Estimates of percentage differences in annual healthcare costs for overweight and obese adults, compared to adults at healthy weight, will be estimated, overall and separately for ...
Wellness programs reduce medical costs | BenefitsPROWellness programs reduce medical costs | BenefitsPRO
Employers using wellness programs are seeing a 6.1 percent average annual medical cost trend reduction and a 13.5 percent average annual medical cost trend reduction among members with core conditions, according to a recent study.
Simulation model for cost estimation of integrated care concepts of heart failure patients | Health Economics Review | Full TextSimulation model for cost estimation of integrated care concepts of heart failure patients | Health Economics Review | Full Text
For the first time a comprehensive simulation model regarding cost estimations for HF patient treatment, including outpatient as well as inpatient care was developed. Compared to other existing models which primarily consider hospitalization cost factors, the total cost estimation is implemented in a more exact approach. Additionally the developed model takes costs of outpatient care, costs for monitoring the patients and equipment costs into account. In other studies regarding economic analyses of HF telemonitoring systems these items were considered separately, however not combined in one comprehensive work. In his review Seto concluded that most of the studies included hospitalization costs and telemonitoring equipment costs, but only one study discussed the direct impact of HF telemonitoring on expenses for the patient [11]. A consideration of the so called indirect costs for the patients, currently not implemented, seems to be an improvement of the presented model. For example travel costs ...
Boomers Need Health-Care Costs Reality Check | Fox BusinessBoomers Need Health-Care Costs Reality Check | Fox Business
Health-care costs have been steadily rising over the decades, yet many boomers are planning adequately to cover the costs in retirement.
The Estimated Direct Medical Cost of Sexually Transmitted Diseases Among American Youth, 2000 | Guttmacher InstituteThe Estimated Direct Medical Cost of Sexually Transmitted Diseases Among American Youth, 2000 | Guttmacher Institute
Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) have a considerable impact on the health of adolescents and young adults in the United States. In 2000, an estimated nine million cases of STDs occurred among persons aged 15-24.1 In addition, STDs impose a substantial economic burden: The direct cost of STDs, including HIV, among all age-groups was estimated to be $9.3-15.5 billion in the United States in the mid-1990s, adjusted to year 2000 dollars.2
Hospital Cost Improvement StrategyHospital Cost Improvement Strategy
Healthcare costs are on the rise. The latest Health Trends Spending Brief from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) notes that the US spend per capita on healthcare costs has exceeded $10,000 in 2017.
Cost of Diabetes Increases 41% in 5 YearsCost of Diabetes Increases 41% in 5 Years
The total costs of diagnosed diabetes have risen to $245 billion in 2012 from $174 billion in 2007, when the cost was last examined, says the American Diabetes Association. This figure represents a 41% increase over a 5-year period. The study, Economic Costs of Diabetes in the US in 2012, includes direct medical costs of $176 billion, which reflects costs for hospital and emergency care, office visits, and medications; and indirect medical costs totaling $69 billion. Indirect costs include absenteeism, reduced productivity, unemployment caused by diabetes-related disability, and lost productivity due to early mortality ...
Cost of Diabetes Increases 41% in 5 YearsCost of Diabetes Increases 41% in 5 Years
The total costs of diagnosed diabetes have risen to $245 billion in 2012 from $174 billion in 2007, when the cost was last examined, says the American Diabetes Association. This figure represents a 41% increase over a 5-year period. The study, Economic Costs of Diabetes in the US in 2012, includes direct medical costs of $176 billion, which reflects costs for hospital and emergency care, office visits, and medications; and indirect medical costs totaling $69 billion. Indirect costs include absenteeism, reduced productivity, unemployment caused by diabetes-related disability, and lost productivity due to early mortality ...
Science: Endometriosis, Fibroids Caused by These Common Chemicals, Billions in Annual Medical Costs | HealthScience: Endometriosis, Fibroids Caused by These Common Chemicals, Billions in Annual Medical Costs | Health
Headline: Bitcoin & Blockchain Searches Exceed Trump! Blockchain Stocks Are Next!. Natural Blaze.com By Brandon Turbeville In a new study, a team of researchers set out to estimate the health cost of two chemicals in the European Union - pthalates and DDE. Both of these chemicals are known ...
Addiction Journal › Estimating the health-care costs of children born to pregnant smokers in England: cohort study using...Addiction Journal › Estimating the health-care costs of children born to pregnant smokers in England: cohort study using...
Estimating the health-care costs of children born to pregnant smokers in England: cohort study using primary and secondary health-care ...
A flexible two-part random effects model for correlated medical costs<...A flexible two-part random effects model for correlated medical costs<...
TY - JOUR. T1 - A flexible two-part random effects model for correlated medical costs. AU - Liu, Lei. AU - Strawderman, Robert L.. AU - Cowen, Mark E.. AU - Shih, Ya Chen T. PY - 2010/1/1. Y1 - 2010/1/1. N2 - In this paper, we propose a flexible "two-part" random effects model (Olsen and Schafer, 2001; Tooze et al., 2002) for correlated medical cost data. Typically, medical cost data are right-skewed, involve a substantial proportion of zero values, and may exhibit heteroscedasticity. In many cases, such data are also obtained in hierarchical form, e.g., on patients served by the same physician. The proposed model specification therefore consists of two generalized linear mixed models (GLMM), linked together by correlated random effects. Respectively, and conditionally on the random effects and covariates, we model the odds of cost being positive (Part I) using a GLMM with a logistic link and the mean cost (Part II) given that costs were actually incurred using a generalized gamma regression ...
Cost drivers and cost poolsCost drivers and cost pools
I need help getting 250 words for the following... What are cost drivers? How do cost drivers relate to cost pools? What are some cost pools? Name two or three different cost drivers for each of these cost.
Economic impact of HIV/AIDS: a systematic review in five European countries | Health Economics Review | Full TextEconomic impact of HIV/AIDS: a systematic review in five European countries | Health Economics Review | Full Text
Despite the evidence demonstrating that the social and economic cost of HIV/AIDS is quite substantial, there are still areas where knowledge of this issue is scant. This review contributes in analysing the effort done in the last decade to measure the cost of illness of this disease and highlights the way forward for advancing in this area. There is a great paucity of information available on the non-medical costs incurred due to HIV/AIDS treatment. The non-medical cost components that were identified and assigned a monetary value comprised lost working time, formal and informal care, and disability payments. Although no studies of this nature have been carried out in France or Germany, research in Spain, Italy, and the United Kingdom has revealed that while these values are lower than medical-care costs, they are substantial sums nonetheless.. While there appears to be little doubt that prolonging the life expectancy of carriers of the virus who live in high-income countries increases the cost ...
Demographic and epidemiological determinants of healthcare costs in Netherlands: cost of illness study | The BMJDemographic and epidemiological determinants of healthcare costs in Netherlands: cost of illness study | The BMJ
Our studys biggest strength is its comprehensiveness. This explains why our results seem at variance with an American (Medicare) study that shows decreasing costs at the oldest ages.2 The American study did not include long term home care for elderly people or care in nursing and old peoples homes. It is these costs which cause the exponential increase in costs in old age. Like the American study we found that costs for acute admissions in hospital decrease at the oldest ages (figure 1). Most of these patients are already admitted to a nursing home or are too old or too ill to consider hospital admission useful. A Swedish study, which is older and less complete, showed the same results.9. Our findings correspond largely with those of our earlier study in 1988. 10 11 Studies that are more or less comparable have been published in England,3 Australia,4 and Canada.5 These studies show basically similar cost patterns but with lower shares, particularly for mental retardation and dementia. However, ...
DiVA - Search resultDiVA - Search result
Background and aim. Heart failure (HF) is a common condition associated with poor quality of life (QoL), high morbidity and mortality and is frequently occurring in primary health care (PHC). It involves a substantial economic burden on the health care expenditure. There are modern pharmacological treatments with evident impact on QoL, morbidity, mortality, and proved to be cost-effective. Despite this knowledge, the treatment of HF is considered somewhat insufficient. There are several HF management programmes (HFMP) showing beneficial effects but these studies is predominantly based in hospital care (HC).. The first aim of this thesis was to describe patients with HF in the PHC regarding gender differences, diagnosis, treatment and health related costs (I, II).The second aim was to evaluate whether HFMP have beneficial effects in the PHC regarding cardiac function, quality of life, health care utilization and health care-related costs (III,IV).. Methods. The initial study involved ...
Weight change patterns and healthcare costs in patients with newly-diagnosed type-2 diabetes in SwedenWeight change patterns and healthcare costs in patients with newly-diagnosed type-2 diabetes in Sweden
article{97297b71-cb07-4379-b4dd-594c9a4bb994, abstract = {,p,Aims To describe weight-change pathways in patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D) and associated healthcare costs using repeated BMI measurements and healthcare utilization data. Methods Patients with newly-diagnosed T2D with body mass index (BMI, kg/m,sup,2,/sup,) at diagnosis and subsequent measures at year 1-3 were identified. Based on three-year BMI change, patients were assigned to one of 27 BMI change pathways defined by annual BMI change: BMI↗ (≥1 BMI unit increase), BMI→ (<1 BMI unit change), and BMI↘ (≥1 BMI unit decrease). Mean annual and three-year cumulative healthcare costs were estimated for each pathway by combining Swedish unit costs with resource use from primary care and national patient registers. Results Cohort consisted of 15,819 patients; 44% women, mean age of 61 years, HbA1c of 6.7% (50 mmol/mol), BMI of 30.6 kg/m,sup,2,/sup,. Most common BMI pathways (mean costs): BMI→→→ (€5,311), BMI↘→→ ...
The extra cost of comorbidity: multiple illnesses and the economic burden of non-communicable diseases | BMC Medicine | Full...The extra cost of comorbidity: multiple illnesses and the economic burden of non-communicable diseases | BMC Medicine | Full...
The literature offers competing estimates of disease costs, with each study having its own data and methods. In 2007, the Dutch Center for Public Health Forecasting of the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment provided guidelines that can be used to set up cost-of-illness (COI) studies, emphasising that most COI analyses have trouble accounting for comorbidity in their cost estimations. When a patient has more than one chronic condition, the conditions may interact such that the patients healthcare costs are greater than the sum of the costs for the individual diseases. The main objective of this work was to estimate the costs of 10 non-communicable diseases when their co-occurrence is acknowledged and properly assessed. The French Echantillon Généraliste de Bénéficiaires (EGB) database was used to assign all healthcare expenses for a representative sample of the population covered by the National Health Insurance. COIs were estimated in a bottom-up approach, through regressions
The High Cost of Your Health | PlanetDrugsDirect.comThe High Cost of Your Health | PlanetDrugsDirect.com
Paying for adequate health care has always been a major cost of living, but recent years have seen soaring medical costs for many Americans. An increased focus on precautionary testing and the proliferation of expensive procedures such as MRI scanning have contributed significantly to this trend. A modern MRI scanner can cost $1.8 million or more, and a state-of-the-art PET/CT scanner can cost $2.5 million and up.. However, prescription-drug costs have drawn the most attention. Drug costs have long placed a heavy burden on ailing seniors, cancer patients and others, but many prescription drugs have lately seen stratospheric price spikes. Drug companies typically claim that the high costs of writing off failed development efforts, conducting ongoing research projects and complying with onerous regulatory requirements have forced them to raise prices for their limited portfolios of commercially successful, FDA-approved products.. An investigation launched in late 2014 by the U.S. House of ...
Selection and ranking of occupational safety indicators based on fuzzy AHP: A case study in road construction companiesSelection and ranking of occupational safety indicators based on fuzzy AHP: A case study in road construction companies
1 INTRODUCTION. Injuries, occupational diseases, and illnesses related to work are negative consequences of human work activities. They represent a significant social and economic burden on individuals, employers, and society. For individuals, the effect is not just the physical pain and suffering, but is also the loss of part of a salary and the inability to maintain a standard of living.. Employers have significant costs associated with occupational injuries, diseases, and death. There are direct costs (payments to be made in cases of injury and illness of workers) and indirect costs (through the absence from work of injured or ill workers; other employees having to stop work because of accidents; and reduced production). According to a study conducted at Stanford University, indirect costs are 1.1 (for the most serious injuries) to 4.5 (for minor injuries) times greater than the direct costs [1].. Worldwide, every day more than 12 workers die on the job (more than 4,500 a year), and every ...
The Direct Medical Costs of Late Presentation ( ) of HIV Infection over a 15-Year PeriodThe Direct Medical Costs of Late Presentation ( ) of HIV Infection over a 15-Year Period
We describe the immediate- and longer-term direct medical costs of care for individuals diagnosed with HIV at CD4 counts <350/mm|sup|3|/sup| (
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The medication cost of sulfonylureas is less than that of other medications (except metformin); the medication costs of regular and NPH insulin are less than those of the insulin analogs. However, when one considers morbidity, mortality, and costs of emergency room visits and hospitalizations due to hypoglycemia, use of sulfonylureas is more expensive than the other classes of medications. Similarly, use of regular and NPH insulins have ultimately a larger total cost than insulin analogs due to hypoglycemia. The cost of insulin, oral agents, and diabetic supplies is only 12.1% of the total annual cost of diabetes-related expenses for patients with diabetes (Table 9 in ref. [5]). ...
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More than half (60%) of respondents over 50 years old said they were worried they would have to delay their retirement, possibly because of the impact of government policies or a lack of savings to cover health-care costs, according to the Investopedia report. This can serve as a lesson for millennials. Health-care costs might be dangerously underestimated - today, a couple might need $350,000 to pay for most of their health-care costs. Not everyone can afford their health care - more people have had trouble paying for their health insurance since 2015, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation, and theyre putting off taking care of themselves: 27% of the public said they or a family member have delayed necessary health care because it was too expensive, with another 23% saying they skipped a medical test or treatment and 21% didnt fill a prescription ...
A Strategists Guide to Personalized MedicineA Strategist's Guide to Personalized Medicine
Breakthroughs in pharmaceutical innovation are poised to change the prevailing business model of the industry - with dramatic effects on healthcare costs and practice.
Delta, Sanofi, partner on diabetes, hypertension management - The Sun NigeriaDelta, Sanofi, partner on diabetes, hypertension management - The Sun Nigeria
She expressed optimism that the capacity of medical personnel would be up scaled, saying that their aim was to ascertain healthcare needs of the state with a view to offering help or assistance.. She said that the partnership with Delta was due to the fact that the state has a model that is already operational, but however, pointed out that the company has its focus on the entire country.. She described diabetes and hypertension as major public health concern because they impose significant economic burdens on governments, patients and care-givers.. "However, it has also been established that proper disease awareness and good quality of care often lead to very positive outcomes for these conditions.. "Access to quality care remains a critical need in our environment," she said.. Odediran further said that the company would be working in collaboration with stakeholders to empower people and healthcare practitioners with the right disease information and capacity to effectively manage the ...
Issue Clash: Will health care reform be effective in reducing health care costs? . NOW on PBSIssue Clash: Will health care reform be effective in reducing health care costs? . NOW on PBS
Will reform impact health care cost? It will but whether it will drive cost up or down is yet to be determined. The cost of medical care is driven by provider decisions/determinations (in error between 30% and 50% of the time) and patient wants/desires (usually unrelated to needs or what medical science can deliver). Insurance companies call this the medical loss ratio. It is about 80% of the total cost of care. The remaining 20% is the cost of insurance administration. For Medicare and Medicaid this cost is about 3% as administration (claims processing) has been turned into a commodity rather than a profit center. If the people (the government is supposed to be by the people) acknowledge that health care is a right then the logical way to proceed is to expand Medicare/Medicaid for all. The total health care cost would be cut by 17%. Insurance companies would still be in the business of processing claims but would not be in the business of supporting the excessive overhead of marketing, ...
Who Needs to Eat Right and Exercise, Obesity is a Disease!?Who Needs to Eat Right and Exercise, Obesity is a Disease!?
Obesity Needs To Be Treated as a Disease By Patricia Reaney ATHENS (Reuters) - Obesity, which already affects more than 300 million people and an alarming number of children, must be recognized and treated as a disease with deadly complications, a leading expert said on Wednesday. Up to 8 percent of total healthcare costs in some Western countries are attributable to obesity and related problems. It is a leading cause of preventable death -- so shedding excess weight is not just
How should cost data in pragmatic randomised trials be analysed? | The BMJHow should cost data in pragmatic randomised trials be analysed? | The BMJ
Pragmatic randomised trials are usually large scale multicentre studies in which interventions or medical policies are compared in a realistic setting.1 The intention is that conclusions from these trials, if accepted, can be adopted directly into medical practice.2 Economic evaluations carried out alongside these trials are increasingly common because it is often important to assess costs and cost effectiveness as well as clinical outcomes.3 Costs are usually derived from information about the quantity of healthcare resources used by each patient in the trial. The quantities of each resource used are multiplied by fixed unit cost values and are then summed over the separate types of resource to give a total cost per patient.4 ...
Hernia Repair - Laparoscopic (outpatient) Costs | NH Health CostHernia Repair - Laparoscopic (outpatient) Costs | NH Health Cost
Make the most of your insurance coverage by knowing how much health care services cost. The price you pay will vary depending on what health care provider you go to and what health insurance company you are enrolled with.
Colonoscopy - With Biopsy (outpatient) Costs | NH Health CostColonoscopy - With Biopsy (outpatient) Costs | NH Health Cost
Make the most of your insurance coverage by knowing how much health care services cost. The price you pay will vary depending on what health care provider you go to and what health insurance company you are enrolled with.
Towers Perrin Health Care Cost Survey Projects That Average Annual Per-Employee Cost for 2008 Will Exceed $9,300 - AFSCME...Towers Perrin Health Care Cost Survey Projects That Average Annual Per-Employee Cost for 2008 Will Exceed $9,300 - AFSCME...
Source: Health Care Cost Survey, Towers Perrin, 2007. From the press release: STAMFORD, CT, SEPTEMBER 24, 2007 - As employers across the United States get ready to unveil next years health plan changes - and the costs associated with them to Americas workers and retirees, new data from Towers Perrin indicate that the average corporate health benefit expenditure in 2008 will be $9,312 per employee - an increase of 7% over 2007.. According to Towers Perrins annual Health Care Cost Survey, which for nearly two decades has offered the industrys most in-depth, prospective look at the upcoming years health care costs for employers, employees and retirees, the 7% growth rate projected for 2008 is among the lowest of the last five years. While the trend is holding steady for the broad respondent group, the survey shows a significant cost differential for companies that are actively - and effectively - managing program performance. Those "high-performing companies" will see annual per-employee costs ...
Report: Healthcare Costs to Rise 9% in 2010 - Nursing LinkReport: Healthcare Costs to Rise 9% in 2010 - Nursing Link
INDIANAPOLIS - Employers who offer health insurance coverage could see a 9 percent cost increase next year, and their workers may face an even bigger hit, according to a report from consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers. Costs will rise in part because workers worried about losing their jobs are using their health care more while they still have it, the firm said in the report released to The Associated Press. The report also said rising unemployment is driving up medical costs. Health care reform legislation currently being hashed out in Congress likely will have little impact on next years costs, said PWC principal ...
DMOZ - Health: Organizations: Grant-Making FoundationsDMOZ - Health: Organizations: Grant-Making Foundations
Grants funds in order to promote and maintain access to adequate healthcare for all people in the Chicagoland area regardless of race, sex, creed or financial need. The foundation meets this goal through its grants for medical and nursing education, medical research and direct healthcare services. ...
Increasing Kids Physical Activity Could Save Billions in Future Medical Costs - Physical Therapy ProductsIncreasing Kids' Physical Activity Could Save Billions in Future Medical Costs - Physical Therapy Products
A 32% to 50% increase in the number of elementary children who perform 25 minutes of physical activity three times per week could avoid $21.9 billion in medical costs and lost wages over the course of their lifetimes.. These findings, from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, were published recently in Health Affairs.. In addition, researchers note just a small increase in the frequency of exercise among children ages eight through 11 would also result in 340,000 fewer obese and overweight youth-a reduction of more than 4%. If all current eight- through 11-year-olds in the United States exercised 25 minutes a day, three times a week, the researchers suggest that $62.3 billion in medical costs and lost wages over the course of their lifetimes could be avoided and in 1.2 million fewer youths would be overweight or obese.. These numbers represent cost savings for one cohort of eight-to-11 year olds, so every year that children in this age group reach those levels of physical ...
Tools to Raise Awareness of Malnutrition - Medical News - The Medical DiaryTools to Raise Awareness of Malnutrition - Medical News - The Medical Diary
The British Association for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (BAPEN) has developed the Malnutrition Matters Meeting Quality Standards in Nutritional Care Toolkit to help commissioners and providers deliver high quality nutritional care across all care settings and meet national nutritional quality standards, including those of the Care Quality Commission. GPs and practice managers are also reminded of the resources published by the British Medical Association (BMA) which raise awareness of the problem of malnutrition in older people and direct healthcare professionals to sources of further information and examples of good practice ...
The True Cost of Cell Culture - Cell Culture Dish - Cell Culture DishThe True Cost of Cell Culture - Cell Culture Dish - Cell Culture Dish
Since its inception, the cost of mammalian cell culture has decreased significantly. As we have gained experience growing cells, making media, producing components, etc., cell culture has become faster, more robust, more productive, and more standardized. Despite these advances, cell culture is still a complex process that has many costs. The stem cell and CHO lines being cultivated today require much more understanding than the chicken heart fibroblasts of yesteryear (see this 2010 paper vs. the 1919 paper).. When evaluating the cost of cell culture, it is important to consider all the costs that go into cultivating cells. Labor and time account for one of the largest costs associated with cell culture (although they are probably a smaller portion of costs at 20,000 L, but at that scale many considerations change). Accelerating adaptation to new growth conditions, reducing the scale up period, and shortening batch times can all significantly reduce the total cost of cell culture.. Increasing ...
Healthcare Village | Alter InspireHealthcare Village | Alter Inspire
The increase annually in healthcare costs appears to be slowing. According to Sandra Block of Gannett News Service, "If theres any good news to be found, its that the increase in overall costs of providing healthcare to employees has slowed. Tower projects an increase of 5.9 percent in 2012, which represents a significant change from 7.6 percent in 2011. Mercer, another human resources consulting firm, predicts that employee healthcare costs will rise 5.4 percent in 2012. Thats small consolation, though, to employees whose income hasnt kept pace with the rise in healthcare costs. In August, personal income fell 0.1 percent from July, driven by a decline in wages and salaries, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis.". Theres bad news for Americans whose healthcare insurance is provided by their employer. According to Towers Watson, a human resources consultant, employers will pass on cost increases primarily through higher employee premium contributions. Towers Watson says that 66 ...
Measuring the costs of nosocomial infections: Methods for estimating economic burden on the hospital<...Measuring the costs of nosocomial infections: Methods for estimating economic burden on the hospital<...
TY - JOUR. T1 - Measuring the costs of nosocomial infections. T2 - Methods for estimating economic burden on the hospital. AU - Haley, Robert W.. PY - 1991/9/16. Y1 - 1991/9/16. N2 - To compete more effectively for resources, it is increasingly important for infection control practitioners to estimate the costs of nosocomial infections and the amount of money their infection control programs save the hospital. Studies on costs should estimate both extra length of stay and extra costs attributable to infectious complications. Cost estimates should either adjust charges by a cost to charge ratio, which is relatively easy, or estimate hospital costs directly by detailed cost-accounting, which is comparatively more difficult. If there is insufficient time to measure costs concurrently in every infected patient, comparative studies can be done by comparing infected and uninfected patients matched on characteristics that control for the preexisting differences between them. Diagnosis-related groups ...
Analysis of Total, Direct and Indirect Cost Outliers in a Polish Specialist Hospital - Olsztyn Economic Journal - Volume 12,...Analysis of Total, Direct and Indirect Cost Outliers in a Polish Specialist Hospital - Olsztyn Economic Journal - Volume 12,...
The purpose of this study is to analyze the factors facilitating the identification of the three categories of cost outliers. They are known as total cost outliers (TCO), direct cost outliers (DCO), and indirect cost outliers (ICO). 4,570 patients have been analyzed. To evaluate the factors that influence the patient being a cost outlier in a hospital; age, length of stay, gender, type of admission, reason for discharge, and type of department were considered. Multivariable logistic regression was used in the study. In our research TCO comprised 9% of the study sample. The percentage of DCO was slightly higher (10%) and ICO was slightly lower (8%). Total cost outliers accounted for almost 37% of total hospital costs, 40% of direct costs, and 34% of indirect costs. The direct cost outliers accounted for 44.39% of direct costs, and indirect cost outliers accounted for 34.91% of indirect costs. It was discovered that, in terms of gender, men are positively correlated with higher cost utilization. ...
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The direct health services costs of providing assisted reproduction services in overweight or obese women: a retrospective...The direct health services costs of providing assisted reproduction services in overweight or obese women: a retrospective...
TY - JOUR. T1 - The direct health services costs of providing assisted reproduction services in overweight or obese women. T2 - a retrospective cross-sectional analysis. AU - Maheshwari, Abha. AU - Scotland, Graham Stewart. AU - Bell, J.s.. AU - McTavish, Alison. AU - Hamilton, M. AU - Bhattacharya, Siladitya. PY - 2009. Y1 - 2009. N2 - Prevalence of overweight and obesity is rising. Hence, it is likely that a higher proportion of women undergoing assisted reproduction treatment are overweight or obese.In a retrospective cross-sectional analysis using routinely collected data of an IVF Unit and maternity hospital in a tertiary care setting in the UK, direct costs were assessed for all weight classes. Costs for underweight, overweight and obese were compared with those for women with normal body mass index (BMI).Of 1756 women, who underwent their first cycle of IVF between 1997 and 2006, 43 (2.4%) were underweight; 988 (56.3%) had normal BMI; 491 (28.0%) were overweight; 148 (8.4%) were obese ...
Annual direct and indirect costs attributable to nocturia in Germany, Sweden, and the UKAnnual direct and indirect costs attributable to nocturia in Germany, Sweden, and the UK
Our aim was to estimate the prevalence-based cost of illness imposed by nocturia (a 2 nocturnal voids per night) in Germany, Sweden, and the UK in an average year. Information obtained from a systematic review of published literature and clinicians was used to construct an algorithm depicting the management of nocturia in these three countries. This enabled an estimation of (1) annual levels of healthcare resource use, (2) annual cost of healthcare resource use, and (3) annual societal cost arising from presenteeism and absenteeism attributable to nocturia in each country. In an average year, there are an estimated 12.5, 1.2, and 8.6 million patients a 20 years of age with nocturia in Germany, Sweden, and the UK, respectively. In an average year in each country, respectively, these patients were estimated to have 13.8, 1.4, and 10.0 million visits to a family practitioner or specialist, similar to 91,000, 9000, and 63,000 hospital admissions attributable to nocturia and 216,000, 19,000, and ...
The effect of publishing hospital charges on healthcare costs: Evidence from Singapore - Munich Personal RePEc ArchiveThe effect of publishing hospital charges on healthcare costs: Evidence from Singapore - Munich Personal RePEc Archive
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Healthcare costs and utilization for Medicare beneficiaries with Alzheimers | BMC Health Services Research | Full TextHealthcare costs and utilization for Medicare beneficiaries with Alzheimer's | BMC Health Services Research | Full Text
Our study is the first to examine the most common medical conditions among AD patients that lead to inpatient admissions and ER use, and to contrast AD patients co-morbid diseases and utilization with those of a demographically-matched control group. Earlier studies accounted for just a few co-morbidities in seeking to isolate ADs influence on costs and utilization. Using a comprehensive co-morbidity assessment for AD patients and a demographically-matched control group, we have achieved credible estimates of the independent effect of AD on healthcare costs and utilization. Individuals in the AD cohort had more unique co-morbid medical conditions and higher overall illness burden than those in the control cohort. Use of services was greater for AD patients, with far more inpatient, ER, and home health encounters. Mean excess cost attributed to AD, even after controlling for the greater overall burden of illness, was $2,307.. The AD cohort had considerably higher pharmacy costs [7, 8, 13, 14] ...
WorldatWork Comments on Legislative Proposal Requiring W-2 Reporting of Employer-Provided Health-Care Costs - MASSAGE MagazineWorldatWork Comments on Legislative Proposal Requiring W-2 Reporting of Employer-Provided Health-Care Costs - MASSAGE Magazine
Research Suggests an Alternative Vehicle - Total Rewards Statements -- Are More Effective. Washington, D.C. (PRWEB) November 18, 2008 - WorldatWork today submitted comments to the U.S. Senates Finance Committee on a legislative proposal recommending employers disclose the amount they pay for health care on an employees W-2 tax form. The proposal says that such disclosure would result in more efficient choices by employees and lead - ultimately - to lower overall health-care costs.. WorldatWorks comments, based on its recent research, included a suggestion by the global nonprofit human resources association that the Committee look at an alternative communication vehicle for more effective disclosure of health-care cost information: a total rewards statement. A total rewards statement is an individualized compensation statement or snapshot of an employees tangible and intangible rewards at a point in time, quantified to reflect the total value of his/her rewards. A total rewards statement ...
A systematic review of predictive models for asthma development in children | BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making |...A systematic review of predictive models for asthma development in children | BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making |...
Asthma is a chronic lung disease caused by airway inflammation. Asthma is the most common pediatric chronic disease [1, 2] affecting 7.1 million (9.6 %) of American children [3, 4]. Asthma is the primary diagnosis for 1/3 of pediatric emergency department visits [5], and the most frequent reason for preventable pediatric hospitalization [6] and school absenteeism due to chronic conditions [7]. In 2008, 9.3 billion dollars, or 8 % of the total direct healthcare cost for all children, were spent on pediatric asthma [1].. About 80 % of pediatric asthma patients have symptom onset before age six [8, 9], most of them before age three [10-12]. However, only about 1/3 of children with at least one episode of asthmatic symptoms by age three will have asthma at age six and over [10, 13-18]. Asthma is under-diagnosed in 18-75 % of asthmatic children [19-23]. Overdiagnosis of asthma is also prevalent. Eleven percent of patients in primary care using inhaled corticosteroids, the most potent and consistently ...
Clinical-epidemiological studies on cutaneous malignant melanoma : A register approachClinical-epidemiological studies on cutaneous malignant melanoma : A register approach
The incidence of cutaneous malignant melanoma (CMM) is steadily increasing. Most of the patients have thin CMM with a good prognosis and a 5-year survival of about 90%. The prognosis is highly related to tumour thickness and clinical stage at diagnosis. Effective systemic treatment for patients with metastatic disease has only recently been available. This thesis aims to increase knowledge of trends in tumour thickness, prognostic factors, socioeconomic differences and medical costs in patients with CMM.. The population-based Swedish melanoma register is the main source of data in all papers in the thesis. Papers I-III include patients from all of Sweden while paper IV is delimited to the County of Östergötland. Cox regression and logistic regression are the main multivariable methods used. Paper IV is focused on stage-specific costs of CMM by comparing direct healthcare costs to a general population.. For men, there has been a shift over time towards thinner tumours at diagnosis accompanied ...
The placebo effect on health-care costs - Blogs - Sault Ste. Marie Evening News - Sault Ste. Marie, MI - Sault Ste. Marie, MIThe placebo effect on health-care costs - Blogs - Sault Ste. Marie Evening News - Sault Ste. Marie, MI - Sault Ste. Marie, MI
It probably would surprise you to learn that health-care costs in this country may finally be coming under control.The truth is that from 2007 to 2010, per-capita health-care spending rose just 1.8 per cent annually. Since then, the annual increase has been a paltry 1.3 per cent.James Surowiecki SAYS one of the reasons for this trend is the simple fact that people are talking about health-care costs:The slowdown in spending is due in part to the recession and the tepid recovery but not as much as youd think. A recent paper by the Harvard economists David Cutler and ... Read more
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What is the average cost of warfarinWhat is the average cost of warfarin
Sep 26, 2019 · For decades, warfarin has been one of the most popular drugs used to prevent and treat deep vein thrombosis (DVT). ** Notes: * Including the costs of stroke and bleedings; ** annual costs for the warfarin alternative are presented in the white boxes in the figure, whereas the annual costs in the dabigatran alternative are presented in the gray shaded boxes FFP and PCC can be associated with volume complications, undesirable thromboembolic events, and increased costs. GoodRx Gold pharmacy prices for Warfarin 30 tablets 5mg Change Configuration. Consumers pay A$9-12 (or around A$5.20 for concession card holders) Jun 01, 2019 · Total healthcare costs including medication costs per patient per year (PPPY) were significantly lower with rivaroxaban versus warfarin ($48,552 vs $52,418; P = .0025), which was primarily driven by lower hospitalization rate (50.2% vs 54.1%; P = .0008), shorter length of stay (7.5 vs 9.1 days; P = .0010), and less outpatient service utilization (86 vs 115 ...
Palliative Care Intervention Reduces Total Health-Care Costs in Patients With Advanced Cancer - The ASCO PostPalliative Care Intervention Reduces Total Health-Care Costs in Patients With Advanced Cancer - The ASCO Post
After applying these exclusion criteria, investigators were left with 3,657 palliative care patients, as the vast majority of patients (n = 72,525) had not received palliative care. Ms. LeBrett and colleagues then matched patients who received a palliative care consultation with an appropriate control in the non-palliative care group. Patients were matched on gender, age, year of diagnosis, region, time from diagnosis to death, and preexposure costs. Matched exposure periods were then determined for each pair. Investigators included 1,288 matched pairs in the final analysis. "We used Medicare payments as an estimation of health-care costs," said Ms. LeBrett, who noted that researchers were interested in analyzing all direct medical costs. "These costs included inpatient, outpatient, home health care, hospice, and medical equipment, and they were adjusted to 2011 dollars as well as geographic variation.". Although selected baseline characteristics for both groups were well balanced, said Ms. ...
Millions Have Uncontrolled High Blood Pressure | Dr. Chauncey CrandallMillions Have Uncontrolled High Blood Pressure | Dr. Chauncey Crandall
Nearly half of about 67 million Americans with high blood pressure are not effectively treating their condition and face a high risk of a heart attack or stroke, a U.S. health official said on Tuesday.. About 36 million people have uncontrolled high blood pressure, a condition caused when too much force is exerted by blood as it is pumped through the body and moves against vessel walls, according to a report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released Tuesday.. "The bottom line is … most of those in this country who have (high blood pressure) dont have their numbers under control, and because of that we have a very high burden of disease," said Thomas Frieden, director of the CDC.. High blood pressure, a risk factor for heart disease and stroke, contributes to nearly 1,000 deaths a day and $131 billion in annual direct healthcare costs, Frieden said.. The condition is the second most serious public health issue. Cigarette smoking is the leading cause of preventable death ...
Lifetime Cost of Stroke in the United States | StrokeLifetime Cost of Stroke in the United States | Stroke
We provide estimates of the lifetime cost of stroke for three major subtypes of stroke. Our estimates of the aggregate lifetime cost of stroke are approximately 60% to 80% greater than those obtained by Hartunian et al15 even after accounting for the effects of medical sector inflation and population growth. Although our overall estimates are considerably higher, Hartunian et al also estimated indirect costs, which were nearly twice as great as aggregate direct costs. We incorporate new measures of the value of nonmarket activity, which contribute to the higher indirect cost estimates. We believe these measures provide a more accurate measure of the economic contribution of women and the elderly.. Our estimates of the direct costs associated with stroke in the first 2 years after a stroke are consistent with previous research documenting the high costs associated with hospital inpatient costs in the first year. Our estimates of the costs associated with nursing home stays and long-term ...
National cost study versus hospital cost accounting for organ recovery cost assessment in a French hospital group - information...National cost study versus hospital cost accounting for organ recovery cost assessment in a French hospital group - information...
The choice of cost data sources is crucial, because it influences the results of cost studies, decisions of hospital managers and ultimately national
Short- and Long-Run Cost FunctionsShort- and Long-Run Cost Functions
To understand short and long run cost functions, it is important to understand the concept of cost. A cost is the value of inputs that are used to produce output. Total cost (TC) is the total cost of producing a given level of output and is divided into total fixed cost (TFC) and total variable cost (TVC). Total fixed cost does not change with the level of output and total variable cost does change with the level of output.. A cost function C(q) is a function that shows what the minimum cost for producing q units of output is. Labour is denoted as (L) and Capital as (K). So, with w as the cost of labour per unit and r as the cost per unit of capital, the production cost is:. w * L + r * K. Total cost can be divided into fixed cost, which is independent of quantity, and variable cost, which is dependent on quantity:. C(q) = FC + VC(q). In the short run, at least one input is fixed and cost curves are defined as operating curves. In the short run, the level of output that correlates to the minimum ...
Washington State Employers See Sharp Health-Care Cost Increases | PLANSPONSORWashington State Employers See Sharp Health-Care Cost Increases | PLANSPONSOR
July 15, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - As in much of the nation, employers in Washington state have experience with continued health-care cost increases and have responded by decreasing some benefits and shifting some benefits costs to employees.
Towards smarter service provision for smart cities: accounting for the social costs of urban service provision | India...Towards smarter service provision for smart cities: accounting for the social costs of urban service provision | India...
India is one of the fastest growing countries in the world and urbanisation is both a challenge and an opportunity for India with huge implications for the rest of the world. One critical concern for Indias urbanising future is the provision of basic urban services for all its citizens. Using a social cost accounting (SCA) methodology, this research estimates the market and non-market costs associated with the delivery of urban water, sanitation, transport and energy services in 4 case study cities. This study goes beyond typically studied issues of access to services and the direct costs involved and brings attention to ignored social costs such as indirect costs, health costs and environmental costs. One of the highlights of this study is that despite high levels of coverage in the four cities, the quantity and quality of services are inadequate in many respects, especially in the case of water and transport, and have high associated social costs ...
How much is a delivery cost at a birthing center | www.QACollections.comHow much is a delivery cost at a birthing center | www.QACollections.com
Answer I can't say for sure, it really depends on your center and where you live. But I've researched a few in Texas and Oklahoma and they tend to cost between $3000 and 5000. Due to the lack of most drugs and overnight stays they will almost always be cheaper than hospital. The one I'm personally planning on using is around $3500 for prenatal care and delivery. That only includes the initial sonogram, and not the one they recommend around 18 weeks or required natural childbirth classes. I know it's not the most thorough information but I hope it helps a little. baby delivery cost at a birth center is less expensive than in a hospital. Av...
Direct healthcare professional communication on the risk of hepatotoxicity related to use of Ketaconazole HRA (ketoconazole) -...Direct healthcare professional communication on the risk of hepatotoxicity related to use of Ketaconazole HRA (ketoconazole) -...
Website provides publications, reports and news regarding the safe use of medicinal products, medical devices and homeopathic medicinal products, as well as other information from the scope of work of HALMED.
Societal costs of home and hospital end‐of‐life care ...: Ingenta ConnectSocietal costs of home and hospital end‐of‐life care ...: Ingenta Connect
In Canada, health system restructuring has led to a greater focus on home‐based palliative care as an alternative to institutionalised palliative care. However, little is known about the effect of this change on end‐of‐life care costs and the extent to which the financial burden of care has shifted from the acute care public sector to families. The purpose of this study was to assess the societal costs of end‐of‐life care associated with two places of death (hospital and home) using a prospective cohort design in a home‐based palliative care programme. Societal cost includes all costs incurred during the course of palliative care irrespective of payer (e.g. health system, out‐of‐pocket, informal care‐giving costs, etc.). Primary caregivers of terminal cancer patients were recruited from the Temmy Latner Centre for Palliative Care in Toronto, Canada. Demographic, service utilisation, care‐giving time, health and functional status, and death data were collected by telephone ...
Heart failure in primary care with special emphasis on costs and benefits of a disease management programmeHeart failure in primary care with special emphasis on costs and benefits of a disease management programme
Background and aim. Heart failure (HF) is a common condition associated with poor quality of life (QoL), high morbidity and mortality and is frequently occurring in primary health care (PHC). It involves a substantial economic burden on the health care expenditure. There are modern pharmacological treatments with evident impact on QoL, morbidity, mortality, and proved to be cost-effective. Despite this knowledge, the treatment of HF is considered somewhat insufficient. There are several HF management programmes (HFMP) showing beneficial effects but these studies is predominantly based in hospital care (HC).. The first aim of this thesis was to describe patients with HF in the PHC regarding gender differences, diagnosis, treatment and health related costs (I, II).The second aim was to evaluate whether HFMP have beneficial effects in the PHC regarding cardiac function, quality of life, health care utilization and health care-related costs (III,IV).. Methods. The initial study involved ...
Community-based specialist palliative care teams and health system costs at end of life: a retrospective matched cohort studyCommunity-based specialist palliative care teams and health system costs at end of life: a retrospective matched cohort study
Background - Access to community-based specialist palliative care teams has been shown to improve patients quality of life; however, the impact on health system expenditures is unclear. This study aimed to determine whether exposure to these teams reduces health system costs compared with usual care.. Methods - We conducted a retrospective matched cohort study in Ontario, Canada, using linked administrative data. Decedents treated by 1 of 11 community-based specialist palliative care teams in 2009/10 and 2010/11 (the exposed group) were propensity score matched (comorbidity, extent of home care, etc.) 1 to 1 to similar decedents in usual care (the unexposed group). The teams are comprised of a core group of specialized physicians, nurses and other providers; their role is to manage symptoms around the clock, provide education and coordinate care. Our primary outcome was the overall difference in health system costs (among 5 health care sectors) between all matched pairs of exposed versus ...
The costs of productivity loss because of a chronic disease were 4 times as great as the direct medical costs of a chronic...The costs of productivity loss because of a chronic disease were 4 times as great as the direct medical costs of a chronic...
The costs of productivity loss because of a chronic disease were 4 times as great as the direct medical costs of a chronic condition.
ATL|Lifetime cancer-attributable cost of care for long term survivors of colorectal cancerATL|Lifetime cancer-attributable cost of care for long term survivors of colorectal cancer
OBJECTIVES:We aimed to determine cancer-related medical care costs for long term survivors of colorectal cancer.METHODS:The SEER-Medicare database was used to measure lifetime cancer-attributable costs of care for those with colorectal cancer surviving at least 5 yr versus age- and gender-matched controls. Costs were directly estimated, stratified by age at diagnosis and stage at diagnosis, for years 6â€"11 after diagnosis and then modeled to estimate lifetime costs. Cost differences between cancer cases and controls were compared to expected costs based on published guidelines for postcancer surveillance.RESULTS:Lifetime medical costs for long term survivors (future years not discounted) were up to $19,516 higher than control costs, and were highest for younger age groups and those with early-stage disease. Excess costs for cancer survivors exceeded expected surveillance costs by $2,223â€"8,822 for years 6â€"10 from the date of initial diagnosis.CONCLUSIONS:Cancer-attributable medical ...
Ohio Senate passes bill to allow patients to learn hospital costs in advance - News - The Independent - Massillon, OHOhio Senate passes bill to allow patients to learn hospital costs in advance - News - The Independent - Massillon, OH
The information must include an estimate of out-of-pocket costs and whether other costs, such as physician or anesthesiology services, will be billed separately.. Ohioans would be able to learn the bottom-line cost of their scheduled hospital care - and their out-of-pocket share of the bill - in advance under a bill passed unanimously by the Ohio Senate on Wednesday.. Senate Bill 97, sponsored by Sen. Steve Huffman, R-Tipp City, would require hospitals to provide a "reasonable, good faith" cost estimate, or price range, of scheduled services at the advance request of patients beginning July 1, 2021.. The information must include an estimate of out-of-pocket costs and whether other costs, such as physician or anesthesiology services, will be billed separately. Hospitals would also be required to warn patients if they are out of their insurers network to prevent so-called "surprise billing." Patients would have to request cost estimates at least seven days in advance.. Hospitals would also have ...
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The proposal for a new Action needs to be prepared jointly by researchers from at least seven COST member states, at least three of which need to be countries with low research intensity (inclusiveness target countries - ITCs).. A one-step application process applies: the researchers submit a proposal of up to 15 pages, which will then be evaluated in several steps. Proposals for new Actions can be submitted in the COST Open Call.. You will find the latest and detailed information regarding the application process on the COST website.. If you are planning to submit a proposal for a new COST Action, the SNSF recommends that you study the information on the COST website in good time and contact the COST coordinator in Switzerland (CNC).. The national COST coordinators represent the COST member states and provide information at the national level for applicants, participants in an Action and other COST participants. In Switzerland, the SNSF acts as coordinator on behalf of the State Secretariat for ...
4 Trends in Value-based Reimbursement - HealthTrust - Performance Improvement For Healthcare4 Trends in Value-based Reimbursement - HealthTrust - Performance Improvement For Healthcare
Improving population health and patient outcomes, while appropriately managing resources, are the central goals of value-based care-and, they require physician input.. According to Deloitte, "Physicians have long focused on quality of care … but now have to pay attention to resource utilization as well, with the goal of reducing the overall cost of care. To succeed, they need data on healthcare costs, tools to analyze costs related to outcomes and aligned financial incentives.". One of the simplest ways for hospitals to better align with physicians is to make them more aware of administrative priorities. A value-based strategy will most likely be unsuccessful if physicians are caught off guard. Many organizations have hit roadblocks at the implementation phase because they didnt get physicians on board with all of the proposed changes at the outset. Their "eyes were bigger than their stomach for value-based care," as Holland puts it. "A smooth transition starts with proper governance," he ...
How to estimate your recipe cost | ShopNCookHow to estimate your recipe cost | Shop'NCook
Update Nov. 12, 2012: See also the new post on how to cost out your recipes in 5 easy steps in ShopNCook Pro 4.0 software.. Adding cost data. To cost out recipes, you have to make sure first to input cost data for the ingredients in the database. The first time you start ShopNCook Pro, you have the possibility to import a cost database. If you skipped this step, dont panic! You can still import it by selecting "Import cost data" in the Costing menu of the Shopping List manager tab. The cost database is there to help you get a quick start with the costing functions. For accurate costing, you will have to input your own cost data from your suppliers. Staple prices greatly vary depending on the region and the season!. Inputting your own cost data. To add your own data, click on the Edit button of the Shopping List manager tab. This will open the database editor. Select "Extended list" in the Tools menu to display all the 2000 items of the database. The cost data is input in the three columns on ...
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Current Research and Scholarly Interests My goal is to translate research into real-world action and decision-making so that my work can impact patients and the institutions in which they receive care. With a research focus on healthcare cost and quality of care, I approach neurosurgery in a unique way?one that applies business operations, economics, and healthcare delivery principles to our field. I have pursued formal LEAN business training, and believe in the importance of working together with other departments and administrators, as well as physicians and surgeons on the hospital and national level, to effect change. During my residency, I developed and led a multi-departmental prospective study at UCSF called OR SCORE (OR Surgical Cost Reduction Project) that brought together surgeons from the neurosurgery, orthopedics and ENT departments with nurses and administrators. OR SCORE successfully reduced surgical supply costs by nearly one million dollars in its first year by providing ,60 ...
The variation of acute treatment costs of trauma in high-income countries | BMC Health Services Research | Full TextThe variation of acute treatment costs of trauma in high-income countries | BMC Health Services Research | Full Text
This review provides a synthesis of literature concerning the acute treatment costs of trauma in high-income countries and the drivers of higher costs. Results showed the cost of acute treatment was a median of $22,448 across studies (IQR: $11,819-$33,701) and identified factors such as injury severity, surgical interventions, ICU and hospital LOS, were consistently associated with higher treatment costs. Across studies, we identified marked variability in reporting, methods of costing and actual costs and charges [15].. The broad inclusion criteria and time period used in this review resulted in a representative sample, although comparison and ranking of costs between studies was limited due to the variety of costing and statistical methods. The predominance of US data may not be generalisable to universal access health systems such as those in Australia and Canada. Although 90% of the worlds deaths from injuries occur in developing countries [51], there is limited external validity of our ...
D. Increased human healthcare costs - Antimicrobial Resistance Learning Site For Veterinary StudentsD. Increased human healthcare costs - Antimicrobial Resistance Learning Site For Veterinary Students
Increased healthcare costs are another important consequence of antimicrobial resistance. Increased costs are due to the need for additional antibiotic treatments, longer hospitalization, more diagnostic tests, higher professional costs and more pain management. In 1998, the Institute of Medicine estimated the annual cost of infections caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria at US$ .4 to 5 million per year19. With the increase in incidence and prevalence of AMR in the last few years, the current cost is probably much higher. Again, increased health costs have more profound repercussions in poorer countries where resources are more limited and the lost efficacy of the older, lower-cost antibiotics has a greater impact on human morbidity and mortality.. ...
End of Life Preferences and Healthcare Resource Use in Heart Failure Patients - Shannon DunlayEnd of Life Preferences and Healthcare Resource Use in Heart Failure Patients - Shannon Dunlay
Dr. Dunlay is a cardiologist specializing in the care of patients with heart failure (HF). Her long term goal is to become an independent health services and ou...
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May 16, 2014. by David McDaid, Derek King and Michael Parsonage Substantial potential economic costs arise for employers from productivity losses due to depression and anxiety in the workforce. The main costs occur due to staff absenteeism and presenteeism (lost productivity while at work). From the perspective of the public purse, failure to intervene also risks higher future health and social care costs.. Labour Force Survey data suggest that 11.4 million working days were lost in Britain in 2008/09 due to work-related stress, depression or anxiety. This equates to 27.3 days lost per affected worker. It is estimated that the average annual cost of lost employment in England attributable to an employee with depression is £7,230, and £6,850 for anxiety (2005/06 prices). If these conditions are not treated, additional costs are also likely to arise from related physical health problems. In the longer term, wider costs may also be incurred, such as from acute care, the impact on family members ...
Employers Shift Higher Health-Care Costs to Workers | The Benefit BlogEmployers Shift Higher Health-Care Costs to Workers | The Benefit Blog
via Wall Street Journal Open enrollment season is under way, and when workers get their health-plan information, many of them can expect higher out-of-pocket costs. As employers cope with rising health costs, some are shifting more of the burden onto their workers, often in the form of health insurance plans that carry high deductibles.…
SciELO - Public Health - Identifying unit costs for use in regional economic evaluation: an illustrative analysis of childhood...SciELO - Public Health - Identifying unit costs for use in regional economic evaluation: an illustrative analysis of childhood...
Costing in single- and multi-country analyses. The issues described above must be tackled in both single- and multi-country costing exercises. In multi-country (regional) analyses, a standardized form of resource data collection is required if pooled analysis of costs is planned. The range of cost-generating events recorded must be consistent, even if there are variations between patients in terms of the frequency of the events.. This report focuses on the unit costs that are applied to resource data to derive cost comparisons in multi-country analyses. In the absence of approved national costing lists, such as those used in Australia (7), or comprehensive cost databases from which average costs for each procedure can be calculated, as commonly used in the United States (8), it is difficult to obtain a consistent set of unit costs, particularly in LAC countries, where the bulk of care is provided free to patients at the point of use, and hospitals receive global annual budgets only loosely ...
Slowing the Progression of Chronic Renal Parenchymal Disease | Journal of the Islamic Medical Association of North...Slowing the Progression of Chronic Renal Parenchymal Disease | Journal of the Islamic Medical Association of North...
End-stage renal failure (ESRF) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in North America as well as in the rest of the world. In addition, the treatment of patients who have ESRF is quite expensive. It is estimated that for an in-hospital hemodialysis patient, the average annual cost is approximately $54,000 in Canadian dollars and a peritoneal dialysis patients annual care costs approximately $32,000 in Canadian dollars, whereas a kidney transplant patient costs about $25,000 dollars a year in Canadian dollars. And as renal replacement therapy by hemodialysis, periltoneal dialysis or successful kidney transplantation prolongs survival in ESRF patients, new dialysis patients have been outnumbering those who die from ESRF. To complicate matters further, the number of ESRF patients have been on the rise the last two decades and is expected to continue to rise at a rate of about 6 to 10% per year through the next one to two decades, putting more strain on the national economy, human resources ...
Data on the quality and methods of studies reporting healthcare costs of post-prostate biopsy sepsis<...Data on the quality and methods of studies reporting healthcare costs of post-prostate biopsy sepsis<...
TY - JOUR. T1 - Data on the quality and methods of studies reporting healthcare costs of post-prostate biopsy sepsis. AU - Alshak, Mark N.. AU - Gross, Michael D.. AU - Shoag, Jonathan E.. AU - Laviana, Aaron A.. AU - Gorin, Michael. AU - Sedrakyan, Art. AU - Hu, Jim C.. PY - 2019/8/1. Y1 - 2019/8/1. N2 - This data article presents the supplementary material for the review paper "Healthcare Costs of Post-Prostate Biopsy Sepsis" (Gross et al., 2019). A general overview is provided of 18 papers, including the details about year and journal of publication, country of dataset, data population characteristics, cost basis, and potential for bias evaluation. Quality assessment and the risk of bias of the 18 papers are detailed and summarized.. AB - This data article presents the supplementary material for the review paper "Healthcare Costs of Post-Prostate Biopsy Sepsis" (Gross et al., 2019). A general overview is provided of 18 papers, including the details about year and journal of publication, ...
The analysis of censored treatment cost data in economic evaluation - LSE Research OnlineThe analysis of censored treatment cost data in economic evaluation - LSE Research Online
This article investigates the way in which the presence of censored cost data in clinical trials should dictate the inferential tests adopted when comparing treatment and nontreatment groups for the purpose of economic evaluation. The authors argue that the techniques of survival analysis are appropriate where censoring is present, and that bias will be imparted if cruder methods are used to analyze cost data, even if that data is drawn from a relevant population. The first section of the article discusses the problem of censoring and survival analysis, while the second examines three methods of dealing with censored cost data and possible biases resulting from them. The third section presents results from actual trial data using the three methods described in the preceding section. Conclusions are presented in section four, where it is argued that these methodological issues are likely to become more important as economists are called upon to evaluate the treatment of chronic conditions using ...
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Costs of illness among older adults: An analysis of six major health conditions with significant environmental risk factors |...Costs of illness among older adults: An analysis of six major health conditions with significant environmental risk factors |...
This study estimates the cost burden associated with six major illnesses among Americans age 65 or older: chronic lung disease, ischemic heart disease, stroke, lung cancer, pneumonia, and gastrointestinal illness. These illnesses were selected because of their relatively high impact among older populations and because they include environmental exposures as a significant risk factor. A prevalence-based cost-of-illness approach was applied. Medical costs were estimated from Medicare claims data in 2000.
Invest in Yourself with a Regular Exercise Routine | CurvesInvest in Yourself with a Regular Exercise Routine | Curves
Do you have a budget? If you do, chances are it contains things like periodic oil changes for your car, dental visit co-pays and occasional home maintenance. Although none of those items may be an emergency at the time, you get them done to prevent larger costs for damages down the road. The money you spend on preventative maintenance is an investment in your future financial health. But what about your physical and mental health? Are you investing in them as well? If youre wondering how to lower medical bills to save money, getting in shape with exercise and a weight loss eating plan is a great way to start.. Investing in your physical health with a regular workout plan, such as a Curves membership, can be beneficial to your body-and your wallet! Spending the money now on fitness help such as a gym designed for women, could mean less money spent later on healthcare costs. And though it is true that money cannot buy good health, the investment you make in yourself in the form of fitness ...
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Cascadia Scorecard Weblog: Medical Cost of ObesityCascadia Scorecard Weblog: Medical Cost of Obesity
The US national rate of obesity has doubled since 1990, so that in 2004, nearly one-quarter of Americans (23.1 percent) were classified as obese. Medical studies have established clear links from obesity to a variety of medical conditions, including type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, cardiovascular disease, and others. Obesity is also costly: the increasing prevalence of obesity and costs of treating obesity-related diseases has helped to fuel the recent rise in medical spending. By one estimate, 27% of the cost increase from 1987 to 2001 was due to obesity.. The latest studies estimate that obesity alone costs the US around $75 billion annually, while while the added costs of treating conditions brought on by simply being overweight bring that share up to 9.1% of total US medical expenditures. On a regional level, obesity alone costs the Northwest over $2.3 billion dollars a year. Thats around 0.5% of our gross state product (see table below). ...
Intestinal health and disease prevention: a story of wheat and oats - WURIntestinal health and disease prevention: a story of wheat and oats - WUR
During the last decades, the prevalence of nutrition-related chronic diseases, such as diabetes type 2, obesity, coronary heart disease, hypertension, and food allergies and intolerances (such as celiac disease), as well as some types of cancer, has been gradually increasing, with a growing impact on healthcare costs. It is generally agreed that these diseases are a negative consequence of economic prosperity with the prevailing Western lifestyle, which is characterized by limited exercise; over-consumption of, in particular, highly refined processed foods and sugar-sweetened beverages; high hygiene; unlimited application of antibiotics; and stress. This Western lifestyle seems, among other things, to affect the proper functioning of the digestive and immune systems. Factors that can contribute to disease prevention should be identified and explored. A key aim of Wageningen University and Research Centre (Wageningen UR) is the improvement of quality of life, in which the prevention of chronic ...
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Diabetic Medicine 2003;20:506-507. Published:Jun-2003. Epub:18-Jul-2003. PMID:12786690. doi:10.1046/j.1464-5491.2003.00955_2.x. The impact of diabetes-related complications on healthcare costs: results from the United Kingdom Prospective Diabetes Study (UKPDS Study No 65) ...
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VisitsOutcomesInpatient careIncreasesMETHODSDeductiblesMedicalPatientsPrimaryBurdenEconomicMedicareEmployersHospitalInterventionPremiumsMedicaidCentersUtilizationHospitalsOutcomesExpensesOutpatientControlling Health Care CostsSignificantlyManaging Health Care CostsOrganizationsReimbursementInpatientContainmentRetirementExpendituresUnnecessary2020LowerPlansSlowdownReduce Health Care CostsSystemEmployee healthKaiser Family FouContributionsGrowthBenefitsCatastrophic health careSavingsMedical costsSpendingPolicymakersPercentAffordabilityPeopleRespondentsRetiree healthEmployer-sponsoredHealthierReformsBehavioral health1970Primary careShiftPublicPlan8,402 per personTrillionQualityCoverageDramaticallyPreventive care
Visits1
Outcomes3
Inpatient care3
Increases1
METHODS2
  • To outline some of the potential model results, two scenarios have been simulated to compare both methods of care regarding overall costs. (springeropen.com)
  • It is clear that new strategies for patient management or new methods of medical care such as the possibility of telemedical treatment can be essential for the reduction of the future financial burden. (springeropen.com)
Deductibles1
Medical1
Patients6
  • Aims To describe weight-change pathways in patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D) and associated healthcare costs using repeated BMI measurements and healthcare utilization data. (lu.se)
  • Conclusion In patients with newly-diagnosed T2D, weight stability was the most common BMI change pattern over 3 years and associated with lowest healthcare costs. (lu.se)
  • The future expenditure for care of chronically ill patients is an ever-present challenge for the health care system. (springeropen.com)
  • It enables the treatment of patients by a physician, a specialist or a clinical ambulance for the simulation of the outpatient care. (springeropen.com)
  • The developed model represents a comprehensive tool, which opens a wide field of possible simulation scenarios for the treatment of heart failure patients with special focus on overall cost estimations and reimbursement strategies. (springeropen.com)
  • The advantage of telemedical treatment of heart failure patients lies within the earlier detection of symptoms and abnormal vital parameters compared to standard care solutions. (springeropen.com)
Primary1
  • Mean annual and three-year cumulative healthcare costs were estimated for each pathway by combining Swedish unit costs with resource use from primary care and national patient registers. (lu.se)
Burden2
Economic1
  • Due to the sudden economic impact resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic after five years of depressed oil prices, energy employers had to find ways to reduce operating costs," the report notes. (coastreporter.net)
Medicare1
Employers2
  • A survey by energy labour market organization PetroLMI shows that more than two-thirds of the employers in Canada's oil and gas sector imposed labour cost reduction measures in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns, including 37 per cent who enacted permanent layoffs. (coastreporter.net)
  • CALGARY - A survey by energy labour market organization PetroLMI shows that more than two-thirds of the employers in Canada's oil and gas sector imposed labour cost reduction measures in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns, including 37 per cent who enacted permanent layoffs. (coastreporter.net)
Hospital1
Intervention1
Premiums25
Medicaid24
Centers8
  • A growing number of large companies are turning to telemedicine services, opening workplace health centers and exploring other nontraditional ways to deliver and pay for health care. (aarp.org)
  • Plus, some insurers boost the coinsurance rate for non-emergency visits to the ER and waive the consumer's coinsurance payment entirely for convenience-care centers. (kiplinger.com)
  • The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated that gun violence deaths cost the U.S. economy $37 billion and gun injuries $3.7 billion in 2005 , the last year the public health agency conducted an analysis. (huffingtonpost.com)
  • Such arrangements will come in many forms, from payer-designated centers of excellence for specialty care to narrow networks for all of a company's covered employees, to directing services for an entire population to the leading area networks. (hhnmag.com)
  • The institute is the home of internationally recognized centers of excellence in medical and public health informatics, aging, and health services and health systems research. (eurekalert.org)
  • New Jersey medical centers are rewarding doctors who can save money without jeopardizing patient care. (nbclosangeles.com)
  • To jump start their programs, those eight states will be able to apply for $48,000 each in federal seed money from the U.S. Administration on Aging, U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (pewtrusts.org)
  • For example, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention currently says that 75,000 patients die annually, in hospitals alone, from infections alone - just one cause of harm in just one kind of care setting. (wikipedia.org)
Utilization11
Hospitals36
Outcomes12
  • To improve patient outcomes, winning health care payers are forging partnerships with providers to reduce practice variation, using big data to help standardize practices and procurement across their networks, and engaging in shared decision-making with patients. (bcg.com)
  • The mandate for payers and providers alike is clear: secure better outcomes at lower cost. (bcg.com)
  • However, one of the most researched and emerging solutions to reducing healthcare costs is to address social determinants of health (SDOH), which, according to the CDC , include "conditions in the places where people live, learn, work, and play that affect a wide range of health and quality-of life-risks and outcomes. (forbes.com)
  • Though this is not an easily resolved issue, one thing is for certain- without sustainable and effective solutions, healthcare prices will only continue to rise, inevitably making it more difficult for communities and individuals to achieve long-term success in healthcare outcomes. (forbes.com)
  • My scholarship is focused on how systemic changes to healthcare affect the realities of actual patient care and societal health outcomes. (forbes.com)
  • To accelerate progress, we will use mapping technology to find 'hot spots' of poor outcomes and high cost, allowing for targeting of outreach efforts and coordination with public health coalitions. (baltimoresun.com)
  • To support better outcomes at lower costs, specialists should wherever possible be paid for a package of services (such as all care related to a knee replacement) and not individual services (such as each office visit, surgery, and re-operation on the path to a knee replacement). (baltimoresun.com)
  • RWJF is engaging health care providers, policymakers, and consumer groups in efforts to provide the right health care at the right price, stem rising health care costs, and improve overall health outcomes for individuals, families and communities. (rwjf.org)
  • If private health insurance really improved health-care outcomes in ways that public systems did not, then the introduction of single-payer would indeed be a bad idea. (nymag.com)
  • High national expenditures obviously don't promise good health outcomes for residents. (nymag.com)
  • A new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association looks across the health care systems of the 10 highest-income countries around the globe to examine what makes our system uniquely inefficient -- spending almost twice as much per person, with worse population health outcomes on measures like life expectancy. (triplepundit.com)
  • These databases enable research on a broad range of health research and policy issues at the national, state, and local market levels, including cost and quality of health services, medical practice patterns, access to health care, and outcomes of treatments. (wikipedia.org)
Expenses26
Outpatient5
Controlling Health Care Costs2
Significantly9
Managing Health Care Costs1
  • It's been aggressive in managing health care costs in recent years, through retooling supplier agreements, reducing the number of plans offered and eliminating administrative redundancies. (hhnmag.com)
Organizations10
Reimbursement8
  • The South Whitley, Indiana, company also helps cover about half the cost of that deductible with contributions to an employee health reimbursement arrangement account, Controller Eric Trump said. (cnbc.com)
  • The system has provided ample reimbursement for high-tech care for complicated illness while underpaying for the primary and preventive care needed to support people in health and wellness. (baltimoresun.com)
  • In recent years, primary care has been weakened by reimbursement systems that pay only for brief clinical office visits. (baltimoresun.com)
  • But "what they all have in common is that they're moving away from the fee-for-service model and encounter-based reimbursement to more comprehensive population health management, where they do whatever it takes to keep people healthy," says Marcotte. (cfo.com)
  • HealthMine says its findings are relevant to the increased use of account-based health plans, which include health savings accounts (HSAs) and health reimbursement accounts (HRAs), and increase plan participant responsibility for cost management. (plansponsor.com)
  • Where agency took corrective action following several supplemental protests, request that Government Accountability Office recommend reimbursement of costs is denied where the initial protest grounds were not clearly meritorious, and corrective action was not unduly delayed in response to supplemental issues raised by the protester after receipt of the agency report. (gao.gov)
  • However, our Regulations do not contemplate a recommendation for the reimbursement of protest costs in every case where an agency takes corrective action, but rather only where an agency unduly delays taking corrective action in the face of a clearly meritorious protest. (gao.gov)
  • Thus, as a prerequisite to our recommending the reimbursement of costs where a protest has been resolved by corrective action, not only must the protest have been meritorious, but it also must have been clearly meritorious. (gao.gov)
Inpatient2
  • After Yale New Haven Health System absorbed St. Raphael in 2012, it gained a 76 percent share of metro New Haven inpatient business. (courant.com)
  • The unit costs of inpatient admission were estimated by using the proportions of admissions for each type of DRG and the public hospital cost-weights for DRGs, to create a weighted average cost per admission with HIV. (health.gov.au)
Containment11
Retirement18
Expenditures8
Unnecessary6
202010
  • Topping the list of health care cost initiatives planned for 2020 is implementing more virtual care solutions, which 51% of the 147 survey respondents said they will be doing. (cfo.com)
  • Almost half (49%) of survey respondents said they plan to pursue an advanced primary care strategy in 2020, and an additional 26% expect to consider doing so by 2022. (cfo.com)
  • The US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has released a new MEPS data file (August 2020, data in .zip or self decompressing [.exe] ASCII text and SAS Transport format, with documentation in HTML and .pdf format, and Stats, SAS and SPSS programming statements in ASCII format). (wisc.edu)
  • Health Care Spending and the Medicare Program: A Data Book ," (July 2020, .pdf format, 200p. (wisc.edu)
  • A. " Older People are Less Pessimistic about the Health Risks of Covid-19 ," by Pedro Bordalo, Katherine B. Coffman, Nicola Gennaioli, and Andrei Shleifer (w27494, July 2020, .pdf format, 29p. (wisc.edu)
  • B. " Variation in Health Care Prices Across Public and Private Payers ," by Toren L. Fronsdal, Jay Bhattacharya, and Suzanne Tamang (w27490, July 2020, .pdf format, 58p. (wisc.edu)
  • B. " Medicare Beneficiaries' Out-of-Pocket Spending for Health Care ," by Claire Noel-Miller (June 2020, .pdf format, 8p. (wisc.edu)
  • Although veterans from recent conflicts will represent a fast-growing share of enrollments in VA health care over the next decade, the share of VA's resources devoted to the care of those veterans is projected to remain small through 2020, in part because they are younger and healthier than other veterans served by VA. (cbo.gov)
  • FILE PHOTO: Nurse Leah Silver cares for a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patient in the COVID ICU at the University of Washington Medical Center - Montlake during the COVID-19 outbreak in Seattle, Washington, U.S. April 24, 2020. (reuters.com)
  • UnitedHealth Group Inc, the largest U.S. health insurer, last week posted first-quarter earnings above Wall Street expectations and kept its profit forecast in place for 2020, despite an economy battered by massive layoffs and business shutdowns to slow the spread of the virus. (reuters.com)
Lower28
  • Paying people to use lower-price medical providers can help reduce health care spending. (rand.org)
  • Together these provisions will dramatically reduce financial burdens for many people with lower income or significant health care needs. (kff.org)
  • 3. Find lower-cost after-hours care. (kiplinger.com)
  • Many are turning to workplace health programs to help employees adopt healthier lifestyles and lower their risk of developing costly chronic diseases. (cdc.gov)
  • In 35 other countries, people enjoy better health care at a much lower cost. (sfbayview.com)
  • We currently pay twice as much per person and get lower quality healthcare than the average of 35 other countries. (sfbayview.com)
  • Also ask about lower-cost facilities and medicines. (medlineplus.gov)
  • If all smokers quit, health care costs would be lower at first, but after 15 years they would become higher than at present. (nih.gov)
  • The authors find that obesity raises medical costs by $430.33, and that a 10 percent reduction in the BMI of each obese person would only lower costs by $45.28. (nber.org)
  • Primary care practices that are medical homes can share in the savings when their patients are healthier at lower cost, with the remaining savings passed to Maryland families, businesses and taxpayers. (baltimoresun.com)
  • The people who succeed in the future will be those who excel at delivering a better-quality outcome for a lower cost. (hhnmag.com)
  • By negotiating lower-cost contracts with these provider networks, they can pass on cost savings to you. (doctoroz.com)
  • This article will teach you how to cut your prescription costs, negotiate with your provider for lower health care costs, and save money in a health care fund. (brighthub.com)
  • Again, the international comparison should put this to rest, as in all those other countries, with much lower health spending, everyone is fully covered. (huffingtonpost.com)
  • Shifting health care costs to employees can lower employee job satisfaction and pose a barrier for attracting new talent. (shrm.org)
  • About one-half of respondents said they utilized health and wellness educational initiatives (56 percent) and lower-cost generic prescription drugs (48 percent) to control costs. (shrm.org)
  • Health care costs dropped by $341 annually per person for SBI patients taking oral diabetes drugs and by $241 for SBI patients taking statins to lower cholesterol. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • Cost savings induced by the ACA are particularly beneficial because they could increase quality while they lower spending. (washingtonpost.com)
  • The reduction in technology development means lower costs but also fewer ways to treat sick people. (washingtonpost.com)
  • While UCLA Health System has long prided itself on being at the forefront of treating patients like Giselle, it is now trying to lower sharply the cost of providing that care. (nytimes.com)
  • The drive to lower costs is resulting in numerous efforts. (nytimes.com)
  • The Cleveland Clinic, another medical powerhouse that has little difficulty attracting patients and demanding high prices, is trying group visits for diabetic patients so more people can be seen at a lower cost. (nytimes.com)
  • The Regenstrief Institute's clinician-researchers work to improve care and lower health costs. (eurekalert.org)
  • I don't know if it's something we need around the whole state if it doesn't lower costs. (denverpost.com)
  • Requiring facilities to post their prices allows consumers to find lower-cost sites of care. (tennessean.com)
  • The hospital with the least expensive patients was Howard University Hospital, also a teaching hospital, albeit one across town that generally serves lower-income residents, where patients cost Medicare $16,369, or 9 percent below the median. (kentucky.com)
  • Some researchers have suggested that perhaps lower U.S. social spending led to worse population health. (triplepundit.com)
  • Last year also showed a smaller regional increase in medical and prescription drug costs of 7.4 percent, which was 1.5 percentage points lower than last year's increase of 8.9 percent and one-half percentage point lower than the national average increase of 7.9 percent. (bizjournals.com)
Plans34
Slowdown4
Reduce Health Care Costs1
System37
  • Primary care is often acknowledged as the foundation of any high-performing health care delivery system. (rand.org)
  • Despite the many cost-reducing provisions in the ACA, system-wide health care costs are still projected to rise faster than national income for the foreseeable future, and this cost growth has important implications for government and family budgets. (kff.org)
  • Create an "alliance of stakeholders" to improve the quality and cost efficiency of the health care system. (rwjf.org)
  • Collect data on cost, quality, delivery-system infrastructure, and population health to create a profile of the state's health care industry. (rwjf.org)
  • and profound changes in how people use and regard the health-care system. (csmonitor.com)
  • A comprehensive picture of costs in Japan's effective and efficient health care system. (umich.edu)
  • The Japanese health care system provides universal coverage to a healthy but aging population. (umich.edu)
  • This system has resulted in the provision of quality health care to the entire population at roughly half the cost of American health care. (umich.edu)
  • Editor's Note: For Campaign 2012 , Alice Rivlin wrote a policy brief proposing ideas for the next president on America's health care system. (brookings.edu)
  • Even if the epidemic does not worsen, these costs are likely to prove an unsustainable burden on the health system given the long-term growth of the federal debt. (brookings.edu)
  • Keeping the costs of obesity from overwhelming the health care system will require a renewed focus by the next president on obesity prevention . (brookings.edu)
  • The American healthcare system is complex, and has many key stakeholders, each with their own opinion on how to fix healthcare spending. (forbes.com)
  • Numerous studies continue to find that resolving problems centered around SDOH often mitigates downstream health problems, leading to an overall cost-savings for the patient, healthcare system, and community. (forbes.com)
  • A key root cause of high health care spending in Maryland - and across the country - is a lack of balance in our health care system. (baltimoresun.com)
  • Maryland's health care system has become known for providing high-quality care - but very often for conditions that could have been prevented in the first place. (baltimoresun.com)
  • A more effective and efficient health care system starts with primary care. (baltimoresun.com)
  • These are just a few of the health-care innovations that South African medical researchers and companies have up their sleeves, and are planning to introduce to the health-care system in their bid to drive down costs. (iol.co.za)
  • Which is very important and then you're also looking at cost in some cases you get the best doctor for the lowest book system. (go.com)
  • AGFA HealthCare Corporation of Ridgefield Park, New Jersey, requests that our Office recommend that it be reimbursed the costs of filing and pursuing its protest against the award of a contract to Philips Healthcare of Andover, Massachusetts, under request for proposals (RFP) No. VA-260-08-RP-0167, issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs for an enterprise-wide Picture Archiving and Communications System (PACS). (gao.gov)
  • The president, who has emphasized his desire to build an 'ownership society,' sketched a vision for the nation's health system radically different from today's employer-based, government-supported system. (baltimoresun.com)
  • Many of the president's critics, including most Democrats, argue that Bush's health care plan amounts to shifting the burdens of an out-of-control health care system onto individuals who cannot afford them, leaving the poorest and sickest patients without care. (baltimoresun.com)
  • The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects that the future costs for VA to treat enrolled veterans will be substantially higher (in inflation-adjusted dollars) than recent appropriations for that purpose, partly because more veterans are likely to seek care in the VA system but mostly because health care costs per enrolled veteran are projected to increase faster than the overall price level. (cbo.gov)
  • VA's enrollment system includes eight categories that determine veterans' eligibility and priority for access to health care. (cbo.gov)
  • Could lean processes transform the U.S. health care system, with its spiraling costs and inconsistent quality? (upenn.edu)
  • So how can a health care system run with this? (upenn.edu)
  • With help from BCG, the University of North Carolina Health Care System (UNC Health Care) launched a lean pilot program that is increasing efficiency and enabling the hospital to serve more patients. (upenn.edu)
  • Giselle sees specialists in a program coordinated by UCLA Health System. (nytimes.com)
  • She regularly sees a host of pediatric specialists, including an ophthalmologist, an endocrinologist and a neurologist at UCLA Health System. (nytimes.com)
  • By enrolling young patients with complex and expensive diseases in a program called a medical home, the system tries to ensure that doctors spend more time with patients and work more closely with parents to coordinate care. (nytimes.com)
  • The effort is part of a much broader ambition by UCLA Health System to reduce its costs by 30 percent, or hundreds of millions of dollars, over the next five years, according to Dr. David T. Feinberg, the system's president. (nytimes.com)
  • Regardless of what happens to the law, the market will force the system to become more efficient," said Paul H. Keckley, the executive director of the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions, a research arm of the consultant Deloitte. (nytimes.com)
  • UCLA Health System is scrutinizing its use of imaging procedures on patients in the cardiothoracic intensive care unit. (nytimes.com)
  • But they can help us deal with larger health system and cultural issues. (eurekalert.org)
  • I wouldn't take any of these cost measures to the bank," said Dr. Tom Rosenthal, the chief medical officer of the UCLA Health System. (kentucky.com)
  • These test runs come as millions of new patients will gain eligibility for health insurance under the federal law, putting additional pressure on the system. (nbclosangeles.com)
  • We also have a larger population of uninsured along with the highest amount if dissatisfaction with the health care system in general. (triplepundit.com)
  • The hospital opened in 2000, the same year that the World Health Organization announced that France had the best health system in the world. (bmj.com)
Employee health3
  • An evaluation of Duke University's Live for Life Health Promotion Program and its impact on employee health. (cdc.gov)
  • Negotiations have barely begun, but Colorado's insurance commissioner, Michael Conway, is excited about the strategy and is already planning to try it elsewhere, perhaps by nudging the state employee health plan to join a statewide alliance that would bargain with health care providers. (denverpost.com)
  • U.S. Sen. Gordon Smith (R-Oregon) adds, "Today's small businesses often face the harsh choice between ending employee health coverage or facing bankruptcy. (msbusiness.com)
Kaiser Family Fou4
  • Most companies now offer health coverage that requires employees to pay an annual deductible before insurance kicks in, and the size of that deductible has soared in the past decade, according to a survey released Tuesday by the Kaiser Family Foundation and Health Research & Educational Trust. (cnbc.com)
  • Filling the need for trusted information on national health issues, the Kaiser Family Foundation is a nonprofit organization based in San Francisco, California. (kff.org)
  • According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, health spending in 1999 averaged $3,993 per person in Maryland, about the national average. (baltimoresun.com)
  • It's a $2.6 trillion problem, according to 2010 data from The Kaiser Family Foundation - a health expenditure increase ten-times the $256 billion spent in 1980. (businessinsider.com)
Contributions1
Growth23
  • This fact sheet on health care costs presents key statistics about the growth, level and impact of rising U.S. health care costs. (kff.org)
  • When asked which current issues could hinder their growth in 2016, an unstable global economy topped the list at 29 percent, followed by quality of partnerships and vendors (25 percent), healthcare costs (22 percent), presidential election results (12 percent), and rising minimum wage (11 percent). (eweek.com)
  • The most widely used measure of employer health care costs, the health insurance component of the Employment Cost Index, indicates that cost growth has decelerated since 1989. (nber.org)
  • Does the Growth in Cost Per Case Really Explain More of Spending Growth than Treated Prevalence? (nber.org)
  • For our progress to be sustainable, however, the growth in health care spending must be slowed and brought into balance. (baltimoresun.com)
  • While growth in health costs stays flat, companies are employing more virtual care, innovating primary care, and seeking solutions to specialty drug costs. (cfo.com)
  • Historically - throughout the 2000s, for example - trends in health care costs were volatile, with the growth rate spiking for two or three years and then receding, Marcotte says. (cfo.com)
  • But at least the rate of growth in health care costs is more predictable now. (cfo.com)
  • Virtual care for musculoskeletal health, the category of physical conditions that has the greatest impact on health care cost, shows the greatest potential for growth, according to the NBGH. (cfo.com)
  • But the news that health care cost growth has slowed dramatically over the past several years has been greeted by progressives with a lot of caution and is rarely discussed by Democratic Party elected officials at all. (slate.com)
  • And wonks at the CBO also worry about health care cost growth. (slate.com)
  • So when health care cost growth slows, shouldn't people be happy? (slate.com)
  • Now the fact of the matter is that health care cost growth is slowing. (slate.com)
  • Our nation has struggled with the burden of our health care costs and spending, approximately 18% of our GDP and rising, which has eroded wage growth, diminished our ability to invest in our children's education, and challenged our global competitiveness. (brookings.edu)
  • Health care costs have dramatically escalated over time, though the rate of that growth has slowed in recent years. (brookings.edu)
  • Amidst rapidly escalating prices, the annual rate of cost growth has slowed in recent years. (brookings.edu)
  • The law has two overarching goals: Cover almost everyone, and slow the growth of medical care costs. (washingtonpost.com)
  • Their goal is to slash the rate of growth in the nation's $2.7 trillion health care bill by roughly half to keep it more in line with overall inflation. (nytimes.com)
  • Health insurance has emerged as one of the fastest growing segments in the non-life insurance industry with 30% growth in 2010-11 with annual premium collections being over Rs 6,000 crores. (medindia.net)
  • would be a good thing, we'd still be facing the question of how to slow the rate of cost growth. (typepad.com)
  • Most importantly, policymakers cannot continue to let arguments over the relatively small sliver of insurance spending represented by the ACA distract them from the need to confront the much greater problem of health care cost growth. (triplepundit.com)
  • The relation between economic growth and development and health, education and other basic needs of people is well recognized and studied since the beginning of this century. (un.org)
  • The study published by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1996 stated: 'While the industrialized countries are expected to grow richer still in coming decades, most developing regions are likely to see more modest income growth. (un.org)
Benefits14
  • The law provides new standards for private health insurance, including identifying minimum benefits for health insurance, placing limits on cost sharing for covered benefits, and establishing new rules for private health insurance that assure access to coverage for people with health problems and limit premium and contribution differences based on health-related factors. (kff.org)
  • Although the Urban Institute report suggests that the health-reforms may in fact level the playing field for some small businesses, not all small companies would see such benefits. (entrepreneur.com)
  • Administrative data such as insurance claims offer a potentially powerful data source to examine the relative benefits and costs of competing drug treatments. (nber.org)
  • You can claim travel costs for your children if you're eligible for any of the benefits described under condition 1 and your child has been referred for treatment as outlined in condition 2 and condition 3. (www.nhs.uk)
  • The survey results are available online at www.shrm.org/Research/SurveyFindings/Articles/Pages/2014-SHRM-Strategic-Use-of-Benefits-Health-Care.aspx . (shrm.org)
  • This survey is one of SHRM's six-part Strategic Benefits Survey report series featuring wellness initiatives, flexible work arrangements, health care, leveraging benefits to retain employees, leveraging benefits to recruit employees, and communicating benefits. (shrm.org)
  • Try the tips below to help you get the most from your benefits and save money on your care. (medlineplus.gov)
  • A health advocate can help you get the most of your benefits. (medlineplus.gov)
  • When benefits enrollment season arrives this fall, employees around the country can expect to see the impact of corporate cost-cutting on their finances. (foxbusiness.com)
  • Employees hired after Feb. 1, 2012, who fail to average the magic 30-hours per week requiring a company to provide a healthcare benefit, will lose their healthcare benefits on the following January. (forbes.com)
  • Of course, Walmart carefully controls employee work schedules and will have the opportunity to design worker hours in a manner that will keep employees at a level below the threshold required to accomplish company healthcare benefits pursuant to the law. (forbes.com)
  • In the Portland area, spiking costs have forced Steve Ferree to reduce the benefits he offers his 32 employees at the Mr. Rooter Plumbing franchise he owns. (nbclosangeles.com)
  • Another possibility is a " hybrid long-term care policy, which combines long-term care benefits with those offered by a traditional life insurance policy . (edwardjones.com)
  • Cost benefits studies were developed to evaluate the economic gain related to the expenditure for a specific treatment or health care method. (un.org)
Catastrophic health care1
  • Private insurance would kick in to pay for only the most expensive, catastrophic health care costs, after a substantial deductible. (baltimoresun.com)
Savings9
Medical costs9
  • A 2009 study found that childhood obesity alone is responsible for $14.1 billion in direct medical costs annually. (brookings.edu)
  • The way medical costs are paid for removes the price tags when the product is being selected and encourages us to spend someone else's money. (shreveporttimes.com)
  • Therefore, neither health insurance nor BMI can be treated as exogenous in estimating a cost function and a Tobit model must be used to account for corner solutions when the individual does not visit a provider and incurs no medical costs. (nber.org)
  • The recent pattern isn't necessarily a good thing, he adds, since 4% to 5% inflation in medical costs has tended to be about twice the general inflation rate. (cfo.com)
  • They then calculated the financial impact of such health problems for two popular Orange County, Calif., beaches--Newport and Huntington--using average salaries and medical costs for the area. (scientificamerican.com)
  • An Asbury Park Press roundtable meeting brings healthcare and business leaders together to examine how medical costs can be better controled. (app.com)
  • UnitedHealth warned last week that medical costs would likely increase in the second half of the year. (reuters.com)
  • Women in the study had higher overall medical costs across all BMI categories, but men saw a sharper increase in medical costs the higher their BMIs rose. (medindia.net)
  • The ACA includes a number of strict regulations that put tremendous pressure on HCOs to reduce medical costs. (sas.com)
Spending27
Policymakers3
  • As health care costs rise, policymakers and industry leaders are increasingly interested in developing accurate ways to measure and, ultimately, to try to reduce them for the individual patient as well as for society as a whole. (rand.org)
  • State and federal policymakers are considering adding state-backed public options to the individual market in an effort to expand health coverage and improve affordability. (rand.org)
  • The ultimate value of this research is for policymakers, who are well aware of the substantial costs involved with cleaning up water pollution, but need to know the other side of the equation--the costs associated with not cleaning up the water, Dwight says. (scientificamerican.com)
Percent31
  • But every year his insurance premium costs rise another 10 or 20 percent, and England worries about the day when the fees will overwhelm him. (cnn.com)
  • Employees are expected to pay 30 percent of those costs. (aarp.org)
  • Health care costs for smokers at a given age are as much as 40 percent higher than those for nonsmokers, but in a population in which no one smoked the costs would be 7 percent higher among men and 4 percent higher among women than the costs in the current mixed population of smokers and nonsmokers. (nih.gov)
  • According to an analysis in the American Journal of Public Health , as little as a 5 percent reduction in the prevalence of diabetes and hypertension would save almost $25 billion annually in medium-term health care costs. (brookings.edu)
  • A hospital visit in this ski town costs about 40 percent more than a visit less than 100 miles away in Denver. (denverpost.com)
  • In 2015, an overnight hospital stay cost 80 percent more, according to a study commissioned by the Summit Foundation, a local community group with a mission to help working families. (denverpost.com)
  • The Tampa-Lakeland area reported an increase of 17 percent in their cost of treatment of psychoses,' Bracher said. (sun-sentinel.com)
  • There may have been more complicated patients,' said Ken Peltzie, a vice president at Bethesda Memorial Hospital in Boynton Beach, on why the cost of the average treatment of back pain rose at his hospital by about 20 percent, to $2,410. (sun-sentinel.com)
  • The obesity elasticity with respect to cost is only .0115 percent. (nber.org)
  • Health expenditure accounts for between 4 and 15 percent of GDP in OECD countries and constitutes one of the most important expenditure items. (nber.org)
  • Effective primary care can reduce the number of hospital admissions for chronic illness by 25 percent or more. (baltimoresun.com)
  • Take into account health care costs and the figure drops further, to 55 percent of average career earnings. (yahoo.com)
  • A recent survey from the Employee Benefit Research Institute found that overall, 53 percent of workers said they'd like to tear up their time cards for good, but they'll likely have to continue to punch the clock because they need to keep their employer-sponsored health insurance. (yahoo.com)
  • The money in the account rolls over, is 100 percent portable and can be used anytime during your lifetime to pay for health care as well as long-term care. (yahoo.com)
  • About 80 percent of the cost of treating victims of gun violence in 2010 was borne in part by taxpayers, according to an analysis of hospital and insurance data by researchers at the nonpartisan think tank. (huffingtonpost.com)
  • Seventy-seven percent of U.S. wealthy investors say health is more important than wealth, and 57% are worried their health will deteriorate in the next 10 years. (plansponsor.com)
  • For families whose earning fell in the bottom 90 percent, total premium costs as a share of their earnings doubled over the same period, from 25.6 to 51.7 percent. (nymag.com)
  • Over the past three years, the percentage of companies indicating that their health care costs went up has remained about the same, yet high, at 69 percent to 74 percent. (shrm.org)
  • Each year between 1980 and 1990, costs rose an average of 11 percent. (brookings.edu)
  • From 2000-2007, annual costs grew by an average of 7.6 percent. (brookings.edu)
  • But since 2009, costs have escalated by just 3.9 percent each year , , and have been trending downward since 2002. (brookings.edu)
  • Those veterans accounted for only about 6 percent of all patients in 2009 and 3 percent of the total dollars obligated for veterans' health care in that year. (cbo.gov)
  • Annual total health care costs were 19 percent higher in women with a history of IPV ($439 annually) compared to women without IPV in their backgrounds. (medindia.net)
  • This estimate is based on prevalence for IPV of 44 percent - a figure established in a study the Group Health/UW team published in 2005. (medindia.net)
  • The main question,' he said, 'is why are health care costs going up at 2.4 percent a year faster than GDP? (typepad.com)
  • When provided with prices of tests, doctors' testing costs dropped by almost 9 percent. (eurekalert.org)
  • The average patient at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital cost Medicare $18,708, or 4 percent above the national median. (kentucky.com)
  • The survey found that employees continue to cover more of their plan costs at an average 23.7 percent of the individual premium and 27.8 percent of the family premium. (bizjournals.com)
  • A total of 202 firms were surveyed during January and February, which found that only 2.4 percent of respondents were planning to discontinue their health care plan after the new state health insurance exchanges become operational in 2014. (bizjournals.com)
  • Retail and hospitality industries, which typically employ larger numbers of part-time workers, are bracing for the biggest increase in costs - 46 percent said they're expecting costs to increase by a minimum of 3 percent. (wnd.com)
  • The health care industry is close behind, with 40 percent expecting that increase in costs. (wnd.com)
Affordability1
People33
  • 1 The ACA changed the health care landscape considerably by providing significant financial assistance to help people with low and moderate incomes afford coverage and associated cost sharing. (kff.org)
  • Therein lies a problem, however: Most people have no idea how much medical care actually costs. (kiplinger.com)
  • If a gas station tried to charge you $10 for a gallon of gas, you'd walk away," says Jeffrey Rice, a physician and founder of the Healthcare Blue Book, a Web site that helps people compare prices for medical procedures. (kiplinger.com)
  • In fact, employees with more risk factors, including being overweight, smoking and having diabetes, cost more to insure and pay more for health care than people with fewer risk factors. (cdc.gov)
  • In the U.S., 30 million people have no health insurance and another 40 million are underinsured. (sfbayview.com)
  • Altman calls this cost shift a 'quiet revolution in health insurance,' obscured in recent years by the health care overhaul's coverage expansion for people who don't have coverage through work. (cnbc.com)
  • Employer-sponsored health insurance is the most common form of coverage in the United States, with about 147 million people enrolled. (cnbc.com)
  • Childhood obesity means more chronic disease will begin earlier in life for more people-driving up lifetime costs considerably. (brookings.edu)
  • But people here are fed up with health care costs that seem unreasonably high. (denverpost.com)
  • But those costs can be much higher for people who are suffering from certain health conditions. (yahoo.com)
  • And people are always afraid that this will be the year that actual costs go in the other direction. (cfo.com)
  • It's easy to get confused about this because ordinary people seem to be very worried about the rising cost of health care. (slate.com)
  • The cost people care about is the price that they personally pay. (slate.com)
  • People care about co-pays. (slate.com)
  • What people do not care about is the underlying price trajectory of the service. (slate.com)
  • But even though people sometimes say they're worried about inflation, in fact people only care about the cost of living. (slate.com)
  • So if you model the micro-economics of how much diabetes cost the country and if you stop people from getting diabetes by modifying their diet or lifestyle, it's a massive economic impact," Gordon said. (iol.co.za)
  • In addition, only people who have a high deductible health insurance plan qualify for the accounts. (brighthub.com)
  • Dr. Henry Jacobs, president of the Connecticut State Medical Society, says soaring prescription drug costs have forced many people to make difficult decisions. (wshu.org)
  • Telling an invitation-only audience that putting the federal government in charge of health care would be 'bad medicine for the American people,' Bush argued for private solutions instead. (baltimoresun.com)
  • The ideas 'all aim at empowering people to make decisions for themselves, owning their own health care plan, and at the same time, bringing some demand control into the cost of health care,' Bush said. (baltimoresun.com)
  • Empty words from the president cannot mask a four-year record of failure,' Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, a Massachusetts Democrat, said in a statement, noting that the number of people without health insurance has grown by 1 million over each of the past four years, to 45 million. (baltimoresun.com)
  • She noted their training, knowledge and community accessibility perhaps makes them the ideal health professionals to help people learn how and why to take their medications. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • The anger over the botched rollout of the Affordable Care Act's federal health insurance exchange - and over the conflicting explanations about whether people can keep their coverage - has been bipartisan and well-deserved. (washingtonpost.com)
  • As of the middle of last week, about 150,000 people had been hospitalized, almost half of which were in New York, and more than 45,000 required intensive care, Evercore ISI analyst Michael Newshel said. (reuters.com)
  • Some healthcare appointments that are canceled because of the pandemic will not return because people will decide not to have surgery, or will not need a sick visit, Nimmer said. (reuters.com)
  • And many people within the industry are still wedded to the status quo, said Dr. Michael W. Cropp, the chief executive of Independent Health, an insurer in Buffalo. (nytimes.com)
  • Personalized, smarter-with-use, online health programs that empowers people to achieve the health and happiness they deserve. (slideshare.net)
  • Instead of providing tax credits based on income and cost of living in an area - like the ACA does - the AHCA would give flat credits to people based on age, ranging from $2,000 for those under 30 to $4,900 for people aged 60 to 64. (businessinsider.com)
  • After all, if everyone worked hard and became successful they'd be able to afford health care and the only ones out of work would be Democratic Congress people. (newstimes.com)
  • In contrast to the recent evidence relating to mortality, which concluded that only more obese people were at a higher risk of death, the current findings suggest that the occurrence of obesity-related illnesses and related costs begin increasing at a healthy weight. (medindia.net)
  • The fact that we see the combined costs of pharmacy and medical more than double for people with BMIs of 45 compared with those of 19 suggests that interventions on weight are warranted," said Marissa Stroo, a co-investigator on the study. (medindia.net)
  • In 2004, a few states such as Idaho, Kansas and North Carolina enacted or expanded tax incentives for people who purchase long-term care insurance, according to the Virginia-based Health Policy Tracking Service. (pewtrusts.org)
Respondents3
  • Only 23% of respondents expect to offer virtual care in that area next year, but an additional 38% are considering to do so by 2022. (cfo.com)
  • Respondents to a survey from Mercer reported preferences for policies to mitigate costs. (plansponsor.com)
  • While 57% of respondents rate the quality of medical care positively versus the global average of 65%, 71% think it isn't affordable - 45 percentage points above 26% globally. (yahoo.com)
Retiree health1
  • Pew Center on the States Managing Director Sue Urahn analyzes the latest findings on state funding of pensions and retiree health care. (pewtrusts.org)
Employer-sponsored3
Healthier3
  • Consumers have much more skin in the game, and that may be fine if you're healthier and don't use a lot of health care. (cnbc.com)
  • By emphasizing routine primary care screenings, healthier lifestyles, and working with individuals at a grass-roots community level, more progress can be made towards creating healthier societies, thereby fulfilling the "proactive" approach. (forbes.com)
  • Some advanced primary care provider networks back their promise to deliver healthier populations at attractive costs by taking on some degree of risk: if they don't deliver, they're paid less. (cfo.com)
Reforms1
Behavioral health1
  • The solutions are meant to provide education and support in the areas of behavioral health, physical therapy, digital coaching, condition management, medical decision support, and sleep, among others. (cfo.com)
19701
  • The share of economic activity (gross domestic product, or GDP) devoted to health care has increased from 7.2% in 1970 to 17.9% in 2009 and 2010. (kff.org)
Primary care9
  • Choose a primary care provider who helps guide you to only the tests and procedures you need. (medlineplus.gov)
  • The RAND Corp. found that improved access to primary care could have avoided many hospital admissions in our state. (baltimoresun.com)
  • Fortunately, new models of primary care called 'medical homes' are emerging that support extra time and support for the chronically ill. (baltimoresun.com)
  • We will seek to build on these efforts so that all insurance companies can participate and all primary care clinicians and patients can benefit. (baltimoresun.com)
  • Another rising area of cost-management activity is advanced primary care. (cfo.com)
  • There are various approaches to advanced primary care. (cfo.com)
  • If you're referred to hospital or other NHS premises for specialist NHS treatment or diagnostic tests by your doctor, dentist or another primary care health professional, you may be able to claim a refund of reasonable travel costs under the Healthcare Travel Costs Scheme (HTCS). (www.nhs.uk)
  • If it's not urgent, it's usually best to visit your primary care doctor or an urgent care center. (doctoroz.com)
  • Also shown are Dr. Marc Feingold (center), a primary care physician, and Dr. James Matera from CentraState Medical Center. (app.com)
Shift2
Public18
  • We analyzed what would happen if public options became available in U.S. health insurance exchanges. (rand.org)
  • Promote improvements in the health of the state's population through investments in public health initiatives and also encourage individuals to be responsible for their decisions on lifestyle and health care, including end-of-life planning. (rwjf.org)
  • Although smoking cessation is desirable from a public health perspective, its consequences with respect to health care costs are still debated. (nih.gov)
  • Perhaps the most pressing public health challenge for the United States today is the epidemic of overweight and obesity, which is linked to an array of costly and debilitating health consequences. (brookings.edu)
  • To me, that has been the big missed opportunity," one of the study's co-authors, Ashish Jha of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, told the Washington Pos t at the time. (nymag.com)
  • The public sector cost for eligible countries, which include South Africa, has fallen to $17 500 for the machine and $9.98 for the cartridge. (iol.co.za)
  • The initiative was taken since a large number of pregnant women who made use of public health facilities did not report for any antenatal visits and saw a doctor for the first time when they gave birth, the minister said. (iol.co.za)
  • Have you checked to see if you are eligible for public health insurance programs? (brighthub.com)
  • The biggest reason is that other countries understand that health care is a public good, not a commodity. (huffingtonpost.com)
  • A study of two California beaches indicates that illnesses associated with swimming in contaminated waters cost the public more than $3 million annually. (scientificamerican.com)
  • Indeed, the researchers calculate that the total public health costs would exceed $7 million annually if the coastal water quality had the maximum pollution levels allowed under EPA standards for the entire year. (scientificamerican.com)
  • This untapped resource could be harnessed and used to improve public health and reduce overall health care costs,' Dr. Pringle noted. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • Improving medication adherence rates improves quality, public health and saves money, and this study demonstrates the value pharmacists can add. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • As an important local public hospital and trauma center, UNC Health Care needed more space. (upenn.edu)
  • Some expect a gradual return of patients for conditions other than COVID-19 and treatments delayed by the public health emergency. (reuters.com)
  • The author examines the issues surrounding the challenges inherent in maintaining a high level of quality in health care while containing costs in public programs and trying to strike the right balance in monitoring and regulating the quality of health care in the private sector. (urban.org)
  • The rising costs of these state liabilities threaten to crowd out resources for other priorities like education and public safety. (pewtrusts.org)
  • Governors also will be filmed in a town hall meeting with about 200 Seattle-area senior citizens and caregivers that will be broadcast across the country this fall as part of a public television series on care giving called, "And Thou Shalt Honor. (pewtrusts.org)
Plan30
  • I'm not in the business of trying to find out how to provide health coverage and how to get the right sort of plan. (cnn.com)
  • England, however, said he would like to see a government health care plan and an emphasis on preventative care. (cnn.com)
  • College professor Bill Cantor said he's seen his premium fall to only $95 a month for family coverage from around $300 since he switched to a high-deductible health plan a few years ago. (cnbc.com)
  • When you choose a health plan, you need to understand what your out-of-pocket costs may be. (medlineplus.gov)
  • For an 80/20 plan, you pay 20% of the cost for each service you receive. (medlineplus.gov)
  • The plan pays the remaining 80% of the cost. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Keep in mind that your plan may have a maximum allowable limit for each cost of service. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Choose the right type of health plan based on your location, health, and other preferences. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Now local leaders are working on a plan to drive down prices that could be a model for the state and other places facing high health care costs. (denverpost.com)
  • For a sixth consecutive year, large companies responding to an annual survey projected that their health care costs will go up by exactly 6% next year unless they implement plan-design alterations and other remedies. (cfo.com)
  • Josh Bivens, EPI's director of research, concluded that the total cost of a family insurance plan provided by a member's employer more than tripled between 1999 and 2016, jumping from an average of $5,791 to $18,142. (nymag.com)
  • Look into discounts or incentives from your health plan or employer for things like gym memberships, weight-loss programs, vision care and smoking cessation. (doctoroz.com)
  • Your health plan may ask you to go through additional tests or get a second opinion before undergoing a costly surgical procedure or treatment. (doctoroz.com)
  • While the extremes of the Ryan-Boehner budget have been widely decried, the underlying assumption behind their Medicare privatization plan is too often accepted by a broad array of health policy advisers. (huffingtonpost.com)
  • The latest study from the Segal Group includes plan sponsors' picks for the top five cost-management strategies. (plansponsor.com)
  • WASHINGTON - President Bush, laying out his domestic priorities in the days leading up to his State of the Union address, visited the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda yesterday to promote his plan to control health care costs. (baltimoresun.com)
  • Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, Bush's Democratic rival in last year's election, criticized Bush in an e-mail to supporters, pushing instead his own plan to expand existing government health programs to cover virtually all the nation's children. (baltimoresun.com)
  • Plan ahead by knowing which urgent care center is near you. (medlineplus.gov)
  • You pay less to see providers who are in-network, because they have a contract with your health plan. (medlineplus.gov)
  • 7. Choose a Health Plan That is Right for You. (medlineplus.gov)
  • When choosing a plan , think about the health needs of you and your family. (medlineplus.gov)
  • If you rarely need medical care, then you may want to choose a plan with a higher deductible. (medlineplus.gov)
  • The Pennsylvania Project demonstrated that realizing untapped clinical performance value from a network of pharmacies is as much about the ability of a health plan to foster a supportive environment as it is about the ability of a pharmacy to execute an improvement effort,' said study co-author Mark Conklin, Pharm.D., vice president at Pharmacy Quality Solutions. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • New hearing aids cost them about $6,000 and the premium for their supplemental Medicare plan jumped by about $19 a month. (cnn.com)
  • The estimated excess costs to the health plan due to IPV are approximately $19.3 million per year for every 100,000 women enrollee aged 18-64. (medindia.net)
  • The study avoided limitations of previous studies by analyzing a random sample from a large health plan that was representative of the community. (medindia.net)
  • How many of your health plan participants can correctly define the terms "deductible" or "copay? (ifebp.org)
  • Plan sponsors can take steps to control these costs but must be mindful of mental health parity requirements when enacting changes. (ifebp.org)
  • Democratic lawmakers and the governor have made the problem of ballooning hospital costs a major focus this year, and the plan is one element of their mission to reduce those costs. (denverpost.com)
  • What happens to your health care plan when you retire? (edwardjones.com)
8,402 per person1
  • In 2010, the U.S. spent $2.6 trillion on health care, an average of $8,402 per person. (kff.org)
Trillion1
Quality16
Coverage9
Dramatically1
Preventive care1
  • Pay-for-performance is most often used to encourage providers to follow recommended guidelines or meet treatment goals for high-cost conditions (e.g., heart disease) or preventive care (e.g., immunizations). (ncsl.org)