Tag: Health Costs
Physicians Concerned By Increasing Cost of Generics
Pennsylvania docs call for state- and national-level medical associations to address issue
Five-Year Mortality, Costs Up for ICU Survivors
Intensive care unit survivors have higher mortality, use of hospital resources in five years after discharge
Office Visits Before Screening Colonoscopy Raise Costs
About one-third of colonoscopies preceded by gastroenterology office visit
Slowing Noted in Growth of Cancer Expenditures
During 2007 to 2009, share of expenditures for hospital-based care dropped to low of 48 percent
Lower Hospital Costs Tied to Palliative Care Consult
Greater cost savings for cancer patients with more comorbidities
Pre-Op Testing Over, Under Used in Mid Urethral Sling Surgery
Preoperative testing overused and underused; estimated charge of overused testing, $18/patient
Higher Hospital Prices in U.S. ‘Monopoly Markets’
Hospital prices positively associated with indicators of hospital market power
U.S. Health Care Spending Increased in 2014
Increase in 2014 followed five consecutive years of historically low health care spending
CDC: Fewer Americans Struggling With Medical Bills
U.S. report shows 12 million are no longer in families having trouble paying for health care
Transgender Transition Treatment Deemed Cost-Effective
Surgical and hormone expenses less than those that treat complications of not transitioning
