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5/24/12 - Doctor visits, drugs drive up health costs for privately insured

5/24/12 Doctor visits, drugs drive up health costs for privately insured

‎Chicago Tribune

Higher prices for visits to doctors, surgery and drugs were the main cause of higher health care costs for privately insured Americans in 2010, ...

5/23/12 - Budgeting for Healthcare in Retirement

5/23/12 Budgeting for Healthcare in Retirement

‎U.S. News & World Report

Many Americans assume that Medicare, the government-backed health-insurance program, will cover the majority of their heathcare costs after they stop ...

5/22/12 - Hospice being marketed as a cost-cutter for hospitals

5/22/12 Hospice being marketed as a cost-cutter for hospitals

‎USA TODAY 

Hospice marketers are looking to persuade hospitals to send Medicare patients to hospice care instead of readmitting them to the hospital.

 

5/21/12 - MA hospitals mobilize on health cost bill

5/21/12 MA hospitals mobilize on health cost bill

‎HealthLeaders Media 

The Harvard-affiliated Partners HealthCare System Inc. has led the lobbying charge among hospitals deeply worried that the Massachusetts.

 

5/21/12 - Health-Care Costs Rise Faster Than US Inflation Rate

5/21/12 Health-Care Costs Rise Faster Than US Inflation Rate BusinessWeek Doctors, hospitals and drugmakers raised prices faster than inflation in 2010, driving U.S. health costs higher as fewer Americans sought care ...

 

5/18/12 - Report: State Medicare costs sixth-highest in nation

5/18/12 Report: State Medicare costs sixth-highest in nation

‎TheDay.com

Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, computed the ... some researchers believe could account for up to a third of U.S. health care costs.

5/18/12 - Report: Poor Health Decisions Cost Billions

5/18/12 Report: Poor Health Decisions Cost Billions

‎Pharmaceutical Processing

Poor health choices add billions in cost to the companies, unions, health plans and government agencies that provide pharmacy benefits to Americans.

5/17/12 - Dog-Bite Costs Surge to $479 Million as Claims Increase

5/17/12 Dog-Bite Costs Surge to $479 Million as Claims Increase

‎BusinessWeek

U.S. insurers' costs tied to dog bites surged last year to a record as the price of the ... socialization, health and the victim's behavior,” Bloomington, Illinois-based ...

5/16/12 - Healthy eating can cost less, study finds

5/16/12 Healthy eating can cost less, study finds

‎U.S. News & World Report

WASHINGTON (AP) — Is it really more expensive to eat healthy?

5/15/12 - Health care costs for family of 4 tops $20000

5/15/12 Health care costs for family of 4 tops $20000

‎Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Health care costs for the typical family of four are projected to reach $20728 this year, a 6.9% increase from last year, according to the Milliman Medical Index.

5/15/12 - Health plans providing detailed cost estimates of doctor visits

5/15/12 Health plans providing detailed cost estimates of doctor visits

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American Medical News

Patients could come to a physician's office with down-to-the-penny prices and compare negotiated rates for multiple physicians and hospitals.

5/14/12 - ICU Stays for Worst Asthma Cases Dropped Significantly Over Last ...

5/14/12 ICU Stays for Worst Asthma Cases Dropped Significantly Over Last ...

‎news Stories

A review of 30 years of life-threatening asthma cases in a San Antonio intensive care unit found that annual ICU admissions for the condition have dropped ...

5/14/12 - Use, Cost of Anesthesia for Endoscopy Increasing

5/14/12 Use, Cost of Anesthesia for Endoscopy Increasing

‎Gastroenterology & Endoscopy News

The addition of anesthesia services increased the cost of a procedure by $150 if ... and Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the University of ...

5/11/12 - Fitness in Middle Age Lowers Medical Costs Later: Study

5/11/12 Fitness in Middle Age Lowers Medical Costs Later: Study

‎U.S. News & World Report

Of the 20489 given a "healthy" designation, 16186 were men and 4303 were women, with an average age of 51. When Medicare costs and other insurance payments ...

5/10/12 - Report: Underused Health Insurance Tax Credit Could Bring $166M To ...

5/10/12 Report: Underused Health Insurance Tax Credit Could Bring $166M To ...

‎Hartford Courant

Nationally, the tax credit could offset the cost of providing health insurance to more than 19 million Americans who work at small businesses for a total ...

5/9/12 - 11 Hospital, Health System Executive Compensation Trends

5/9/12 11 Hospital, Health System Executive Compensation Trends

‎Becker's Hospital Review

Boards' focus on reducing costs affects compensation. The pressure to reduce costs in healthcare has caused many hospital and health system boards to be ...

5/9/12 - Nonprofit US hospitals to do more with less

5/9/12 Nonprofit US hospitals to do more with less

Reuters

At the heart of the matter lies Medicare, the health insurance program for ... Costs for the $549 billion-a-year program will likely leap from about 3.7 ...

5/9/12 - Expert: Tax credit won't get small businesses to offer health ...

5/9/12 Expert: Tax credit won't get small businesses to offer health ...

‎NJBIZ

... the cost of their workers' health insurance, according to a report, ... least 50 percent of each employee's health insurance premiums to qualify for the ...

5/8/12 - Report shows more costly healthcare in U.S. doesn't mean better ...

5/8/12 Report shows more costly healthcare in U.S. doesn't mean better ...

Healthcare Finance News 

... despite health costs averaging one-third to two-thirds more than the other advanced countries. The average cost was $8000 per person in 2009.

 

5/8/12 Health Insurance Studies Document Fearful Retirees

5/8/12 Health Insurance Studies Document Fearful Retirees

Insurance Networking News

Soon-to-be-retired Americans say they are concerned about health care costsnegatively affecting their retirement plans. Nearly half of soon-to-be-retired, ...