Talk about feeling airsick. The charges for air ambulance services in 2016 hovered between 4.1 and 9.5 times the rate allowed by Medicare, according to a study led by Carey Business School researcher Ge Bai. Publicly insured ...
Jan 3, 2020
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(HealthDay)—National health care spending in 2020 increased 9.7 percent in the United States, according to a study published online Dec. 15 in Health Affairs.
Dec 17, 2021
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In past decades, the safety of many probiotics available to consumers was anchored in knowledge of their long history of safe consumption in humans. However, the range of probiotics is expanding to include non-traditional ...
Dec 29, 2022
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Two drugs that treat macular degeneration are practically interchangeable - except for the price.
Feb 2, 2015
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Two new studies led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health shed light on current U.S. hospital practices.
Apr 10, 2023
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The number of low-income, uninsured Americans enrolling in Medicaid under the expanded coverage made possible by the Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010 could vary considerably from the levels currently projected by the Congressional ...
Oct 26, 2011
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Hospitals participating in the 340B Drug Pricing Program, a large federal safety-net program, are financially incentivized to prescribe original biologic drugs to prevent and treat diseases in lieu of cheaper generic-like ...
Jun 21, 2023
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Currently, one in five elderly patients discharged from a hospital is readmitted within a month. Seeking to address the human and substantial financial burden of revolving door hospital readmissions, the Affordable Care Act ...
Jun 1, 2011
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(HealthDay)—The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has developed models of care that can be used to reduce the overall burden of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, according to a study published online Sept. 25 in ...
Sep 27, 2017
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Health care coverage increased dramatically in parts of China between 1997 and 2006, a period when government interventions were implemented to improve access to health care, with particularly striking upswings in rural areas, ...
Dec 5, 2011
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