Avoidable health care costs exceed 200 billion in 2012
(HealthDay)—In 2012, avoidable health care costs in the United States exceeded $200 billion, according to a report published by the IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics.
Jun 30, 2013
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(HealthDay)—In 2012, avoidable health care costs in the United States exceeded $200 billion, according to a report published by the IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics.
Jun 30, 2013
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Experts from UPMC Health Plan and Community Care Behavioral Health Organization recently published a state mental health policy description that shows how Pennsylvania's county-based model of Medicaid behavioral health managed ...
Mar 22, 2023
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"Every time I see what I pay for me and my family's health it makes me sick," says Fiona, a 46-year-old mother of two who -- unlike some 50 million Americans -- actually has health insurance.
Jun 28, 2012
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The decision this week by experts at the Food and Drug Administration to endorse a pair of medicines aimed at combating heart disease brought on the latest round of hand-wringing over prescription drug costs.
Jun 15, 2015
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Three times a week, Tod Gervich injects himself with Copaxone, a prescription drug that can reduce the frequency of relapses in people who have some forms of multiple sclerosis. After more than 20 years with the disease, ...
Apr 2, 2019
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Health economist Peter Neumann has a proposal for how to rein in the growing costs of prescription drugs.
Jan 28, 2022
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Patients are less likely to fill prescriptions for naloxone when they face increases in out-of-pocket costs, according to research by the University of Michigan.
Jun 14, 2024
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US President Joe Biden on Tuesday called on pharmaceutical giants Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly to lower prices for diabetes and weight loss drugs such as Ozempic, saying firms must stop "ripping off the American people."
Jul 2, 2024
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For nearly 10 years, Stacie Dusetzina, Ph.D., a Vanderbilt University professor of Health Policy and Ingram Professor of Cancer Research, has focused her research on one core policy issue that has been of interest to lawmakers ...
Nov 3, 2022
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(HealthDay)—The financial burden of caring for patients with chronic low back pain (CLBP) in the United Kingdom is twice that of caring for patients without CLBP, according to a study published in the Jan. 1 issue of Spine.
Jan 3, 2013
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