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High-deductible health plans are becoming more common among U.S. adults with employer-sponsored health insurance coverage

CDC: High-Deductible Health Plan Use Rising Among Employers

These employees more likely to face financial barriers to care, researchers find
There is little agreement between the American Society of Clinical Oncology Value Framework and European Society for Medical Oncology Magnitude of Clinical Benefit Scale

ASCO: Agreement Lacking With ESMO on Most Effective Drugs

Negative correlation identified for ASCO benefit score with monthly incremental drug costs
Diagnosis of subsequent metastases is associated with substantially increased costs and medical resource use among patients initially diagnosed with localized prostate cancer

Substantial Increase in Costs With Metastases in Prostate CA

Costs peak during month of metastases diagnosis, reaching $13,291
Americans are routinely overcharged for emergency department care

U.S. Emergency Departments Commonly Overcharging Patients

Minorities and uninsured are the most affected, researchers say
Excess weight is associated with increased costs across health care settings

Excess Weight Increases Costs Across Health Care Settings

Percentage increases in costs associated with obesity were highest for medications, higher for women
There is a substantial financial burden for Medicare beneficiaries with myeloma who do not receive a low-income subsidy for orally-administered anticancer therapy

High Costs for Myeloma Patients Not Getting Low-Income Subsidy

For those aged 75 to 84 years, LIS receipt linked to increased odds of receiving immunomodulatory drugs
Most emergency medicine health care professionals lack accurate knowledge of the costs of tests and treatments that are ordered in the emergency department

Few Emergency Clinicians Know Costs of ER Tests, Treatment

Education concerning cost could improve efficiency and decrease costs, researchers say
Health care costs can be reduced

Plan Suggested for Reducing Health Care Costs

Nine-point plan includes streamlining in billing, reduction in high facility fees, reducing drug costs
High-price practices have higher scores on certain measures of care coordination and management

Practice Prices Linked to Some Measures of Care Coordination

But no differences in overall care ratings, receipt of preventive services, acute care use
A Medicare Bundled Payments for Care Improvement initiative does not reduce readmission rates or costs among patients with acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Bundled Payment Initiative Doesn’t Cut Readmission in COPD

Medicare Bundled Payments for Care Improvement doesn't cut costs in COPD exacerbation