Tag: Health Costs
Price Hikes for Hundreds of Medications
Prices of 411 drugs have increased an average of 5 percent
Treating Oral Disease Could Yield T2DM-Related Cost Savings
Model shows benefits include reductions in tooth loss and diabetes-related microvascular disease
Machine Learning System Makes More Alerts for Med Errors
68.2 percent of MedAware alerts would not have been generated with clinical decision support system
Poor Diet Contributes Substantially to Cardiometabolic Disease Costs
Diet tied to more than $50 billion in annual health care costs for heart disease, stroke, diabetes
Risk-Based Approach Could Help Target Prostate Cancer Screening
Risk-based screening yields less overdiagnosis, more cost-effective than age-based screening
Changes Needed to Address Out-of-Network Billing at Hospitals
Anesthesiologists, pathologists, radiologists, assistant surgeons out of network in about 10 percent of cases
Patient Share of Out-of-Network Costs Rising
From 2012 to 2017, out-of-pocket costs nearly doubled for out-of-network hospital care
FDA to Allow States to Import Prescription Drugs From Other Countries
All imports would have to be FDA-approved, tested to ensure quality, relabeled to meet U.S. labeling requirements
Access to High-Cost Targeted Treatments Varies for Lung Cancer
Patients treated at a National Cancer Institute-designated center more likely to receive these drugs for lung cancer
Cost Saving-Related Rx Nonadherence Found for 7 Percent With HIV
Persons nonadherent due to cost more likely to have visited ED, been hospitalized, not be virally suppressed
