Showing posts with label Health Costs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Health Costs. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Accountable Care Organizations: Improving Care Coordination for People with Medicare | HealthCare.gov

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The Affordable Care Act includes a number of policies to help physicians, hospitals, and other caregivers improve the safety and quality of...
Monday, April 4, 2011

Hospital Acquired Infections Becomes A Leading Cause In Patient Deaths | OneMedPlace

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Patients today are between a rock and a hard place because when they get sick a hospital may be the last place they want to go. Hospital Ac...
Tuesday, March 29, 2011

New Health Insurance Survey: 9 Million Adults Joined Ranks of Uninsured Due to Job Loss in 2010; Few Viable Health Insurance Options Exist for Unemployed - The Commonwealth Fund

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An estimated nine million working-age adults—57 percent of people who had health insurance through a job that was lost—became uninsured in ...
Thursday, March 24, 2011

Branded drug prices soar as generic pressure rises | Reuters

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Pharmacists in Jordan-based Hikma Pharmaceuticals package generic versions of Ciprofloxacin hydrochloride 750 mg which will be ex...
Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Sisters accused of health fraud nabbed in Colombia | Reuters

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Two sisters accused of falsifying health care claims to defraud the U.S. government of millions of dollars were nabbed in Colombia and retu...

Budget Cuts Spell Crisis for Women with HIV « SpeakEasy

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Rallies for workers’ rights in Wisconsin and other states have raised critical awareness about the potential implications — and targets — ...
Tuesday, March 15, 2011

$4 drug programs could save economy billions: study | Reuters

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U.S. consumers could save billions of dollars by filling prescriptions for inexpensive generic drugs at stores such as Wal-Mart and Target,...
Sunday, March 13, 2011

Danger of multiple emergency room visits to different hospitals

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If you are one of the more than 100 million Americans who visit emergency rooms (ER) at least once a year, you’re not alone. Americans, i...
Monday, February 28, 2011

Governors: Medicaid More A Budget Buster Than Ever : NPR

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The federal government and the states have shared the cost of Medicaid, the health insurance program for some 60 million low-income America...
Wednesday, February 23, 2011

GOP Counts The Ways To Defund Health Law : Shots - Health Blog : NPR

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Did House Republicans keep their promise to defund the health care overhaul as part of their bill to cut more than $60 billion from the fe...
Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Obama administration asks states to cut costs without dropping Medicaid coverage

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By Marilyn Werber Serafini Kaiser Health News Tuesday, February 22, 2011; 12:58 PM The Obama administration is deploying squa...

Women and the Affordable Care Act - Health Care for You | HealthCare.gov

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Health Care for You Women have unique health care needs, and often make health care decisions for their families. The law offer...
Friday, February 18, 2011

Released hospital patients' many unhappy returns

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Patients who are released from the hospital too early or without proper planning and instructions often wind up back in the hospital after ...
Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Many Emergency Department Visits Could Be Managed At Urgent Care Centers And Retail Clinics — Health Aff

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Americans seek a large amount of nonemergency care in emergency departments, where they often encounter long waits to be seen. Urgent care...
Saturday, February 5, 2011

U.S. Sees Slowdown in Spending on Mental Health

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The amount of money spent on psychiatric drugs in the United States continues to grow but at a much slower rate than in previous years, a n...