Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp's plan for a conservative alternative to Obamacare's Medicaid expansion has cost taxpayers at least $26 million so far, with more than 90% going toward administrative and consulting costs rather than ...
Mar 26, 2024
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The cost to American families of caring for a child with a mental health condition rose by almost a third between 2017 and 2021, a new report finds, to an average of $4,361 per year.
Mar 11, 2024
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New UCLA-led research suggests that patient mortality rates, readmissions, length of stay, and health care spending were virtually identical for elderly hospitalized patients who were treated by physicians with Doctor of ...
May 29, 2023
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Senators are eying the growing shortage of health care workers in the United States as one of the few problems where there is room for bipartisan solutions, even in a deeply divided Congress gearing up for a presidential ...
Feb 21, 2023
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The U.S. spends as much as three times more on health care per person as other high-income countries, yet residents are often less likely to visit doctors, according to a report that highlights poor returns for the nation's ...
Feb 3, 2023
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Low-value health care is common and expensive for individuals and society, accounting for up to 30% – as much as $101 billion annually—of health care spending in the U.S. The current scope and impact of low-value cardiovascular ...
Feb 22, 2022
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Recently published in JAMA Network Open, University of Minnesota Medical School researchers found that during a four-year period, patient out-of-pocket spending increased for hepatitis B medication, entecavir.
Jan 24, 2022
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(HealthDay)—Among long-term cancer survivors, those with obesity have an additional $3,216 medical spending per person per year, translating to $19.7 billion in 2016 in the United States, according to a study published ...
Aug 30, 2021
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Hospital-level care at home—some of it provided over the internet—is poised to grow after more than a decade as a niche offering, boosted both by hospitals eager to ease overcrowding during the pandemic, and growing interest ...
May 24, 2021
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In the years after 2014, when the Affordable Care Act's health insurance marketplaces were established, low-income patients who underwent a surgical procedure saved an average of $601 in out-of-pocket spending and $968 in ...
Apr 9, 2020
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