Most consumers haven't shopped around for standard medical procedures such as a knee replacement, but reference pricing could open that possibility for many services and lower health care costs at the same time.
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(HealthDay)—A plan to let Medicare patients receive rebates that drug companies currently pay to insurers and middlemen has been withdrawn by the Trump administration.
Jul 12, 2019
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Nearly a fifth of the respondents in a recent survey said they would reverse their opposition to compensating kidney donors if a form of non-cash payment led to a substantial increase in the supply of available organs for ...
Jul 12, 2019
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Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation making California the first state to provide health care coverage to young, undocumented adults, a $98 million measure targeting almost 100,000 people.
Jul 10, 2019
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A tool developed by researchers at Yale, Stanford, and Bioethics International can promote greater sharing of clinical trial data by pharmaceutical companies. While nearly one-third of the companies that the researchers assessed ...
Jul 10, 2019
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If you're over sixty-five, chances are better than two-to-one you don't have dental insurance. According to a report released in May by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, only 29.2 percent of American seniors ...
Jul 09, 2019
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Use of a class of pain drugs called gabapentinoids has increased more than three-fold between 2002 and 2015.
Jul 09, 2019
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Cancer research is a field that has been especially dependent on public funding. The National Cancer Institute (NCI), an independent institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), was established in 1937 to provide ...
Jul 08, 2019
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From the Fitbit to Apple's smartwatch, wearable tech is becoming increasingly popular across the globe. Compared to other nations like US, which has seen higher adoption of fitness trackers, uptake in Australia is still less ...
Jul 08, 2019
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The poorer people are, the higher their chances of contending with domestic violence, crime, social conflict, homelessness and unemployment.
Jul 03, 2019
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