News tagged with administrative costs
Doctors say cancer drug costs are too high
More than 100 doctors from around the world have signed a letter decrying the high cost of cancer drugs which reach $100,000 per year or more, and calling for pharmaceutical companies to ease prices.
Medications
Apr 26, 2013 |
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After years of growth, fewer transplants done through 'kidney chains'
An additional 1,000 patients could undergo kidney transplants in the United States annually if hospitals performed more transplants using paired kidney exchanges, new Johns Hopkins research suggests.
Surgery
Mar 12, 2013 |
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Setting the record straight on Medicare's overhead costs
The traditional Medicare program allocates only 1 percent of total spending to overhead compared with 6 percent when the privatized portion of Medicare, known as Medicare Advantage, is included, according to a study in the ...
Health
Feb 20, 2013 |
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Consumers benefitted nearly $1.5 billion from the ACA's medical loss ratio rule in 2011
Consumers saw nearly $1.5 billion in insurer rebates and overhead cost savings in 2011, due to the Affordable Care Act's medical loss ratio provision requiring health insurers to spend at least 80 percent of premium dollars ...
Health
Dec 05, 2012 |
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Denmark to scrap world's first fat tax
Denmark said Saturday it would scrap a fat tax it introduced a little over a year ago in a world first, saying the measure was costly and failed to change Danes' eating habits.
Health
Nov 10, 2012 |
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Mayo Clinic physicians ID reasons for high cost of cancer drugs, prescribe solutions
A virtual monopoly held by some drug manufacturers in part because of the way treatment protocols work is among the reasons cancer drugs cost so much in the United States, according to a commentary by two Mayo Clinic physicians ...
Cancer
Oct 01, 2012 |
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Study finds interventions to prevent Type 2 diabetes give good return on investment
Programs to prevent or delay type 2 diabetes in high-risk adults would result in fewer people developing diabetes and lower health care costs over time, researchers conclude in a new study funded by the National Institutes ...
Diabetes
Mar 22, 2012 |
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Popular mammography tool not effective for finding invasive breast cancer
Computer-aided detection (CAD) technology is ineffective in finding breast tumors, and appears to increase a woman's risk of being called back needlessly for additional testing following mammography, a large UC Davis study ...
Cancer
Jul 27, 2011 |
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White House seeks health plan compromise
Offering the option of government coverage to workers and their families has become one of the most contentious issues in the debate about overhauling health care to cover the uninsured and curb costs. Obama has proposed ...
Health
Apr 15, 2009 |
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