Home , April 1, 2010 - Volume 10 - Issue 2 , Predictors of Annual Pharmaceutical Costs in Australia for C... , Previous Abstract , Next Abstract , American Journal of Cardiovascular Drugs: 1 April 2010 - Volume 10 - Issue 2 - pp 85-94 doi: 10.2165/11530670-000000000-00000 Original Research Articles Predictors of Annual Pharmaceutical Costs in Australia for Community-Based Individuals with, or at Risk of, Cardiovascular Disease: Analysis of Australian Data from the REACH Registry Ademi, Zanfina1; Liew, Danny2; Hollingsworth, Bruce3; Steg, Ph. Gabriel4; Bhatt, Deepak L.5; Reid, Christopher M.1; on behalf of the REACH Registry Investigators Abstract Background: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains a leading cause of death across the world and poses a significant economic burden. Research regarding per-person use and cost of cardiovascular pharmaceuticals in Australia, as well as potential predictors of pharmaceutical costs in populations using the bottom up costing approach, is limited. Previous ...

TY - JOUR. T1 - Beyond gatekeeping. T2 - Enlisting patients as agents for quality and cost-containment. AU - Kravitz, Richard L. PY - 2008/10. Y1 - 2008/10. UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=51649103225&partnerID=8YFLogxK. UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/citedby.url?scp=51649103225&partnerID=8YFLogxK. U2 - 10.1007/s11606-008-0763-1. DO - 10.1007/s11606-008-0763-1. M3 - Article. C2 - 18769980. AN - SCOPUS:51649103225. VL - 23. SP - 1722. EP - 1723. JO - Journal of General Internal Medicine. JF - Journal of General Internal Medicine. SN - 0884-8734. IS - 10. ER - ...

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The Carter administrations hospital cost control bill will be met with the united opposition of both hospitals and physicians, the president of the 6,000 - member American Hospital Association said yesterday.. The hospital associations opposition to the bill, announced at a press conference yesterday by president J. Alexander McMahon, although not unexpected, underscored the difficulties likely to face the legislation as it moves through Congress.. The bill was introduced in the Senate yesterday by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D. Mass.), chairman of the Health Subcommittee, with Sens. Wendell R. Anderson (D-Minn.) and William D. Hathaway (D-Maine) as last minute co-sponsors. The administration was apparently unable to find a Democratic co-sponsor on the Senate Finace Committee, which will have primary responsbility for action on the bill.. In the House, both sponsors of the bill - Ways and Means Health Sub-committee Chairman Dan Rosten-kowski (D-Ill.) and Commerce Health and Environment ...

Former Goldome Chief Cooper Urges Cost Control As Cultural Discipline for Survival-Minded Banks. Thomas A. Cooper took the reins at Goldome in Buffalo in 1989, when the institution was awash in a sea of red ink.. Largely because of ruthless expense reduction, Mr. Cooper -- former president and cost-cutting specialist at San Francisco-based BankAmerica Corp. -- lifted Goldome into the black. In 1988, the bank posted a net loss of $119 million. By contrast, in 1990 the bank earned $37.5 million.. Nonetheless, Goldome remained starved for capital, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. last month parceled out the Buffalo banks franchise to Albany-based KeyCorp and First Empire State, also of Buffalo.. Shortly before stepping down from his post as chief executive officer at Goldome, Mr. Cooper summed up some of his accomplishments.. Many people talk about cost cutting the way they used to talk about the four-minute mile. Too often, they start by assuming that it simply cant be done.. But it has ...

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This brings us to the Voice of Partners and the Market, i.e. your suppliers and factory who have to actually deliver your new product. The supplier or plant will determine the price at which they are willing to sell to you.. People often add pernicious voices to the conversation that are manic depressive opposites. The first is the Voice of Resignation. If you have kids, or if you ever were a kid, you may know this as the Voice of Eeyore. Eeyore is the lovable, but chronically dejected donkey in Winnie the Pooh. This voice says, I dont care what your should-cost says. This is what the market will sell for, so I guess that I have to buy at that price.. ...

To assist in the work of evaluating the Health Care Cost Containment Law of 2012 (Chapter 224), the Office of the State Auditor (OSA) assembled an Advisory Committee consisting of individuals representing many facets of the health care market: providers, payers, the business community, representatives of the health care workforce, health care advocates, and representatives from academia who conduct research in the health care and/or public health fields. The purpose of the Advisory Committee is to provide feedback on our research plans, the data used in this project, and the analysis conducted on that data. The Advisory Committee helps to ensure that the right questions are being asked, that assumptions are challenged where appropriate, and ultimately, that reports and recommendations to the Legislature are meaningful and useful toward the end-goal of achieving cost containment in the Commonwealths healthcare market. ...

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Policy combinations and interactions have received a considerable attention in the energy policy realm. The aim of our working paper is to provide insight on the cost- effectiveness of combinations of deployment instruments for the same technology. A financial model is developed for this purpose, whereby feed-in tariffs (FITs) and premiums (FIPs) are combined with investment subsidies and soft loans. The results show that combining deployment instruments is not a cost-containment strategy. However, combinations may lead to different inter-temporal distributions of the same amount of policy costs which can affect the social acceptability and political feasibility of renewable energy support.. ...

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The costs of information technology (IT) in large multinational companies (MNCs) often constitute a significant portion of the companys total yearly turnover. IT departments are on one hand expected to return value to business, but are on the other hand often prone to cost reductions. Thus, it is not unusual that IT management chooses to focus on cost cutting rather than cost control in order to meet the companys financial targets. Understanding cost drivers in IT is not always evident, making it difficult for managers to know what performance indicators that should be tracked. This study addresses the issue of cost control and performance measurement in IT departments, in the form of a case study carried out at the IT department of a large Swedish MNC in the telecommunications industry. The case company is divided into two parts: Enterprise and Engineering, where Enterprise provides the organization with IT in form of printers, personal computers, applications, IT support and communication ...

The recent economic downturn has left New York actor Alex Hayes without the means to pursue his dream. The cost of paying off his student loans, rent, and bills, and the rising costs of groceries have left him too broke to take acting classes and buy new headshots. The ever-rising cost of living has really put a damper on the amount of energy and work I can put into my career, said Hayes, who doesnt even suffer the added expense of filling his gas tank like most working actors in Los Angeles.. Across the country, inflation and the ailing economy have forced everyday Americans to feel the squeeze and cut costs. But the situation can hit actors more profoundly because many of them live hand-to-mouth under normal circumstances. They must invest more money to get work than do those in most other professions, and they dont get paid for auditions -- let alone reimbursed for the transportation costs of attending.. Even established actors are being forced to downsize. Talent manager Phil Brock told ...

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In its examination of the top 10 catastrophic illnesses that can prompt claims on stop-loss insurance policies, Sun Life Financial U.S. found self-insured employers paid more than half ($5.3 billion) of $9 billion in billed charges from 2012-15-receiving $2.3 billion in reimbursements through stop-loss protection.. Stop-loss insurance policies protect self-funded employers by limiting the risk associated with catastrophic claims.. More employers are self-funding their medical plans than ever before, and managing the rising cost of health care continues to be one of their central concerns, says Brad Nieland, vice president of Stop-Loss at Sun Life Financial U.S. By highlighting the conditions that create catastrophic claims and providing insights into trends influencing high costs, we can help employers anticipate what theyll see when self-funding and raise awareness about the importance of cost-containment resources and stop-loss insurance.. The fourth annual Top Ten Catastrophic Claims ...

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Healthcare and social services encompass hospital medical care, outpatient care provided by physicians, urgent care, elderly and hospice care, dental work, and social assistance. About 75 percent of U.S. hospitals in this industry sector are not-for-profit institutions. New regulatory requirements require hospitals to decrease their hospital readmission rates to cut Medicare costs or face financial penalties. Implementation of electronic health records (EHRs) are expected to help control costs through efficiency. Cost containment is a priority for healthcare organizations.. The general rule of business is to control costs, increase revenues, and maximize profit. As revenues increase, the tendency of businesses it to add workers, purchase technology, and increase inventories. However, many companies grow themselves out of business by diverting cash into fixed assets and inventory investments in anticipation of expanding sales.. One way to avoid this situation is to reduce and control ...

With an increased emphasis on cost containment and regulatory scrutiny leading up to reform, the need for health plans to shift from defensive to proactive engagement regarding fraud and improper payments is critical. SAS and Stonegate Advisors LLC interviewed executives at 13 of the largest U.S. health plans to gain insights into the current reality of fraud and improper payments and to review strategies and tactics that can be put in place in anticipation of reform. This paper explains the major trends uncovered in this research that signify a fundamental shift in health plans approach to improper payments. ...

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Health insurers have long been plagued by issues of fraud, waste, abuse, error and corruption. Data and analytics are critical in health care cost containment.

This study empirically evaluates the effectiveness of different health care cost containment measures. The measures investigated were introduced in Germany in 1997 to reduce moral hazard and public he

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IT, Health Care and Mobility are three key focus areas for state and local government going into 2012 and beyond. All three areas have the potential to save governments millions and improve service delivery but they can also cause significant short term headaches in this era of austerity. CivSource spoke with Joe Doherty, EVP & COO, ACS Government Solutions about what states can do cut costs and improve performance in these areas. According to Doherty, state and local governments are running out of temporary fixes to tight budgets. States have really gone as far as they can go with temporary measures like furlough days, layoffs. It is becoming critical for officials to look at larger issues like IT, infrastructure, health care and how to make changes in outdated systems and business processes that cant effectively meet demand.. IT services are still providing significant opportunities for state and local governments to improve service delivery without asking for a large budget allocation. ...

Image via Shutterstock. The Shinagawa Technology Center was located very close to Sonys headquarters. It is owned by Sumitomo Life Insurance Co, Nippon Steel Kowa Real Estate, and Obayashi Corp.. This decision is a part of still unfolding restructuring that the company is going through under Chief Executive Kazuo Hirai. The move to shut operations in the Tokyo office had not been disclosed earlier. The move is intended to cut costs so that Sony can realign its business and slowly retreat from TV manufacturing business where it was incurring losses. The relocation is expected to be completed by September. Sony will go ahead with its plan of reducing workforce. It aims to cut about 10,000 jobs globally by March 31st including about 4000 jobs from Japan. Sony will be offering an early retirement program to its employees at the headquarters and will be cutting its headquarters staff by a fifth. Further restructuring of Sony includes the closure of a factory which makes lenses for cameras and mobile ...

Eli Lilly and Partnership declared yesterday that they knowledge decided to lay off hither 8.5 percent of their craftsmen. The company was on its way to occur two potential exceptional drugs sort out the past year but set in arrears bear led to outstanding fiscal disappearances, outstanding to this discrimination.. The major dose companions formed in Indianapolis at ones pine cut down fro 3,500 ascribes around the force which not working save the string around $500 million starting 2018. Lilly has wind up by 41,000 craftsmen globally, rating more than 18,500 in the U.S. The proponentss cells rose by 1.8 percent. Lilly figure up ons charges of wide $1.2 billion nourish of tax, or $0.80 per allotment out after tax.. A to a top distance taper off in price is expected from a discretionary early-retirement program that thinks elements be in place in the Coalesced Expresses bitter down on uncountable 2000 wage-earners. The associates in a bid to cut costs inclination also intern down its workshop in ...

What are the primary reasons for a country to sometimes withhold goods or put price controls on exports to international markets? What are possible outcomes of this practice? What are your feelings about price controls? What.

The most costly three conditions, malignant neoplasm (cancer), chronic/end state renal disease (kidneys), and leukemia/lymphoma/multiple myeloma (cancer), represented 33% of all Stop-Loss claims payments that Sun Life Financial made from 2008 to 2011. The total of all Stop-Loss claims payments during the four-year study was $1.7 billion.. We conducted this research to bring greater focus to the significance of catastrophic claims for self-insured employers, said Scott Beliveau, Stop-Loss Vice President. We are committed to continuing the dialogue about how carriers, self-insured employers, brokers, and TPAs can work together to manage the high cost of catastrophic claims.. To help manage medical costs, the report recommends that self-insured employers analyze their self-insured strategy to make sure that it includes cost-containment best practices. The report provides important questions for the employer to consider, such as whether the following approaches are in use: wellness programs, ...

The cost of healthcare continues to be a hotly debated topic. In this current climate of reform and cost-containment, it may come as a surprise to you that theres an easy fix within Medicare that will help save precious healthcare dollars and improve care. It is called the Home Infusion Site of Care Act, and it is awaiting action from your Congress.. While physicians and patients generally prefer that intravenous medications be delivered at home, a glitch in Medicare is forcing patients to get their treatments in a hospital or nursing home setting. This means, for example, that a Medicare patient being treated for an infection with an IV drip must get that therapy in a far more expensive institutional setting rather than the comfort and safety of his or her own home. Even more concerning is the fact that because infusion therapy dispenses medication through a needle or catheter, patients treated in hospitals run an increased risk of attaining life-threatening infections such as MRSA that are ...

Its a pretty interesting subject: time was, hospitals counted on the use of surgical disposables for profit. Because of changes in Medicare reimbursement rules, they no longer could charge processing fees for cleaning and re-sterilizing reusable instruments, or for laundering surgical drapes; but they could charge for the use-once and throw-away (and nearly always non-biodegradable) stuff, and charge a reasonable marked-up price. There became, in other words, a perverse (and presumably unintended) disincentive regarding cost-containment. To the extent that hospitals are starting to be reimbursed with global fees (ie, they get x-thousand dollars to care for a colon-resection patient), the opposite has become true. The most efficient surgeon is, theoretically, the most desirable one. Yet so-called economic credentialling is almost never done; and when it is, theres generally nothing in it for the surgeon. Meaning people like me, who saved payors thousands of dollars per case, while still ...

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Cost-containment in health care paired with global regulatory approvals of biosimilar agents pave the way for less expensive alternatives to complex biologics. Regulators and payers increasingly demand robust safety and effectiveness data in real-world settings. Our objective was to identify and describe characteristics of observational studies involving biosimilars ...

Health & Wellness column: - Lets get one thing straight. No one is talking about healthcare reform. There has been a smattering of talk about medical care reform--something about digitizing medical records and putting these in a database so that doctors anywhere can have access to a patients medical history. Hardly anyone disagrees that these modernizing measures would help cut costs and improve the quality of medical service.

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The states decision to stop regulating hospital prices in 1992 was a mistake that unleashed the cost increases of today, writes Philip W. Johnston, a health care consultant and former state official. Yet for years since deregulation, the state government had been unwilling to impose new cost controls. Now, with the bills under consideration on Beacon Hill, state government is finally poised to become a player in health costs again.

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U.S. News & World Report (Healthday) The rate of growth in U.S. health care spending is expected to pick up speed so that the nation will shell out $4.6 trillion for services by 2020, a new report finds.. And an increasing amount of that bill -- almost half -- will be paid for by government.. Growth in health care spending dipped to a historic low of 3.9 percent in 2010 because of the recession, the experts said. But the new report, from Medicares Office of the Actuary, projects that by 2014 -- when many provisions of the new health care reform law kick in -- growth in spending will accelerate to 8.3 percent.. View the full story (some sites require registration). ...

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We do not deserve anything that we do not pay for. If we are going to use a single pay-or system then raise the tax for Medicare and bail it out. Begin to pre-pay Medicare instead of pay as you go. When we pay forward our medical expenses through a pay roll tax we will treat it differently. The magic of compounding interest will put us in the enviable position of having medicare surpluses ...

How putting patients front and center is shaping the hospital systems of the future. A conversation with Edmund Sabanegh, MD, President of Cleveland Clinic Main Campus and Regional Hospitals.

Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank recorded the second-largest net profit at the bank level in the second quarter of 2021, at $ 381.7 million in the first quarter of the year, an increase of 14.1% year-on-year.. ADCB attributed the growth of net profit in the second quarter of 2021 to diversified revenue flows, decent cost control and a prudent approach to risk management.. On the other hand, the Bank of Sharjah reported the largest loss in net profit for banks in the second quarter of 2021, with a net loss of $ 93.8 million compared to a net profit of $ 49.4 million in the second quarter of 2020.. The capital goods sector recorded the largest absolute increase in net profit in the second quarter of 2021 by 2021.. The newly listed Alpha Abu Dhabi Holding Company recorded a net profit of $ 7.6 million in the second quarter of 2021, compared to $ 442.7 million, the main driver supporting the increase in profits. A sharp rise in its profits to the impact of the radical change of the year.. The other two ...

Buying generic brand drugs when filling a prescription used to be a no brainer. However, with a recent spike in prices, some are now struggling to pay for what was once affordable medication.

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Although cost control for drugs has been common in countries with socialized medicine or government-payer systems, this issue is now beginning to take center stage here in the United States.

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Aaron, a Senior Fellow in Economics at the Brookings Institution, is unable to imagine any route to cost control that doesnt involve government coercion. In a 2005 Brookings white paper titled Health Care Rationing: What it Means, he represents the NHS as a system that has come to grips with what he sees as the inescapable necessity for rationing. Predictably, he rejects any alternative involving the market: The key to efficient market outcomes is that prices reflect costs of production. The market for health care does not operate that way. In other words, Aaron believes health care is a unique universe in which the market mysteriously fails to function and therefore cant be relied upon to contain costs. It never seems to have occurred to him that the markets alleged failure might be the result of government meddling ...