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12/17/15 - Medicare Takes For-Profit Partner

12/17/15 Medicare Takes For-Profit Partner

U.S. News & World Report

 

"Our goal is to give everyone the clearest picture of their health care choices, ... set of health-care questions, including procedures, treatment options, and costs.

12/11/15 - Studies: Texas Still Has Much Work To Do To Boost Health, Access

12/11/15 Studies: Texas Still Has Much Work To Do To Boost Health, Access

D Healthcare Daily

 

Studies: Texas Still Has Much Work To Do To Boost Health, Access ... Texas was ranked 44^th, and had poorer showings for out-of-pocket costs, those who went ...

12/4/15 - Amish and Mennonite Patients Push An Experiment In Health Care ...

12/4/15 Amish and Mennonite Patients Push An Experiment In Health Care ...

KBIA

 

Amish and Mennonite communities typically shun health insurance, and many ... hospital here to develop a new model of more transparent healthcare pricing.

12/4/15 - COPD exacerbation frequency and its association with health care ...

12/4/15 COPD exacerbation frequency and its association with health care ...

Dove Medical Press

 

... To describe COPD exacerbation patterns and assess the association between exacerbation frequency and health care resource utilization (HCRU) and costs ...

11/24/15 - Open Enrollment: Deciding Between a PPO, HMO, EPO or POS Plan

11/24/15 Open Enrollment: Deciding Between a PPO, HMO, EPO or POS Plan

U.S. News & World Report

Open enrollment for benefits plans is here, and that includes choosing health insurance coverage. As employers and insurers shift more of the cost to users, the ...

11/18/15 - New online tool does Social Security benefit math for you

11/18/15 New online tool does Social Security benefit math for you

USA TODAY

"Once the numbers have been gathered, it is very important for individuals to sit with a seasoned financial adviser to discuss, taxes,health care costs, long-term ...

11/17/15 - American Medical Association calls for ban on prescription drug ...

11/17/15 American Medical Association calls for ban on prescription drug ...

WABC-TV

Last month, the Kaiser Family Foundation released a report saying that a high cost of prescription drugs remains the public's top healthcare priority. In the past ...

11/9/15 - 'Defensive Medicine' Could Lead to Fewer Errors, Malpractice Claims

11/9/15 'Defensive Medicine' Could Lead to Fewer Errors, Malpractice Claims

California Healthline

However, they also can add billions of dollars to U.S. health care costs. ... "socially beneficial deterrence" if the costs lead to fewer errors and malpractice claims ...

11/6/15 - 58% of Smartphone Owners Download, Use Mobile Health Apps

11/6/15 58% of Smartphone Owners Download, Use Mobile Health Apps

mHealthIntelligence.com

The respondents who did not use mobile health apps cited their “lack of interest,” prices of the applications, and security concerns regarding data collection.

11/2/15 - Pharmacists on Primary Care Teams: Effect on Antihypertensive ...

11/2/15 Pharmacists on Primary Care Teams: Effect on Antihypertensive ...

Medscape

Pharmacists on Primary Care Teams: Effect on Antihypertensive Medication Management in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes. Dima Omran, BSc(Pharm), MSc; ...

10/23/15 - A Hospital Reduces Repeat ER Visits By Providing Social Workers

10/23/15 A Hospital Reduces Repeat ER Visits By Providing Social Workers

NPR

 

Compared to four months before the program, the cost fell from $1.5 million to ... had health insurance, they'd stop using emergency rooms for basic health care.

10/19/15 - Depressive Symptoms Undertreated in Youth With Diabetes

10/19/15 Depressive Symptoms Undertreated in Youth With Diabetes

Medscape

Children and adolescents with type 1 and type 2 diabetes experience different rates of depression, but few receive help or treatment regardless of the type of ...

10/16/15 - New law feature allows Mass. to keep healthcare company costs in ...

10/16/15 New law feature allows Mass. to keep healthcare company costs in ...

Becker's Hospital Review

The initiative is a new feature of the 2012 Massachusetts health cost containment law. The new portion of the law essentially allows the commission to require ...

10/7/15 - PCP/Oncology Partnerships Vital for Cancer Care Wave

10/7/15 PCP/Oncology Partnerships Vital for Cancer Care Wave

MedPage Today

"It would be a great disservice to [cancer patients] to not have the involvement ... The team-based care model of the patient centered medical home (PCMH) has ...

10/6/15 - Use of Medical Scribes Spurs Debate About Costs, Difficulties of ...

10/6/15 Use of Medical Scribes Spurs Debate About Costs, Difficulties of ...

The Hospitalist Online

Kendall Rogers, MD, CPE, FACP, SFHM, chair of SHM's Health IT Committee and associate professor and chief of the hospital medicine division at the ...

9/29/15 - Mystery ambulance rides cost Medicare $30M: auditors

9/29/15 Mystery ambulance rides cost Medicare $30M: auditors

CBS News

Fraud costs the health care system tens of billions of dollars a year. Medicare is especially vulnerable because Congress requires the program to pay claims ...

9/29/15 - US to Give Almost $700 Million in Grants to Improve Patient Care

9/29/15 US to Give Almost $700 Million in Grants to Improve Patient Care

Wall Street Journal

Proponents of the initiatives say they will help reduce U.S. health-care costs at a time when growth in national health spending, which had dropped to historic ...

9/29/15 - The Unnecessary Mammogram Tech That Costs the U.S. $400 ...

9/29/15 The Unnecessary Mammogram Tech That Costs the U.S. $400 ...

Pacific Standard

"Obviously, eschewing payments for CAD won't by itself bend the cost curve, but payments for ineffective services like CAD combine to bloat our health care ...

9/25/15 - Health Insurers Hire Thousands Of Nurses To Coordinate Care

9/25/15 Health Insurers Hire Thousands Of Nurses To Coordinate Care

Forbes

Health insurance companies are hiring record numbers of nurses as the .... to several big problems of American health care – high costs, uneven quality and ...

9/24/15 - Blue Cross Plans Create Giant Database To Spur Cost Transparency

9/24/15 Blue Cross Plans Create Giant Database To Spur Cost Transparency

Forbes

The health plans, for example, will be able to better tailor health plans to employers ... networks that have higher-quality and lower-cost doctors and hospitals.