Showing posts with label cost. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cost. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 17, 2019
Thursday, March 8, 2018
Wednesday, July 27, 2016
What Does Effectiveness In Healthcare Mean? How Has It Evolved?
What's In A Word? The Evolution Of Effectiveness In Health Care by Murray Ross. Health Affairs. July 26, 2016
Friday, November 20, 2015
Average Annual Cost Of Specialty Drugs Now More Than Exceeds Median U.S. Household Income; Drug Industry Says Report Misleading
Specialty Drugs Now Cost More than The Median Household Income by Carolyn Y. Johnson. The Washington Post. November 20, 2015.
Tuesday, August 11, 2015
Pharmacy Benefit Manger CVS Concerned That New Heart Disease Guidelines Don't Provide The Clarity Need To Avert Runaway Costs
Pharmacy Benefit Manager CVS Urges Rewrite For U.S. Heart Guidelines by Deena Beasley And Ransdell Pierson. Reuters. August 10, 2015.
Wednesday, March 25, 2015
Monday, December 22, 2014
Caught In The Middle Of Drug Makers And Insurance, Doctors Losing Influence Over Patient Treatment
Gilead's Price Dispute With Insurers Leaves Doctors On Sidelines by Caroline Chen. Bloomberg Businessweek. December 22, 2014.
Saturday, December 20, 2014
Repeat Caesareans Difficult To Reduce Due To Liability, Staffing, And, Safety Concerns
A Type Of Childbirth Some Women Will Fight For by Sumathi Reddy. The Wall Street Journal. December 8, 2014.
Wednesday, December 10, 2014
Saturday, December 6, 2014
Health-Cost Slowdown Reflects Basic Change In Health Care System
The Health-Cost Slowdown Isn't Just About The Economy by David Leonhardt. The Upshot. December 5, 2014.
Thursday, September 11, 2014
Debate On Over-The-Counter Contraceptives Reveals Concerns About Cost, Access, Safety As Well As Politics
New Discord Brews On Over-The-Counter Contraceptives by Thomas M. Burton and Natalie Andrews. The Wall Street Journal. September 10, 2014.
Thursday, July 10, 2014
New Era Of Respect For Primary Care Physicians?
Will Health Reform Bring New Role, Respect To Primary Care Physicians? by Jay Hancock. Kaiser Health News. July 10, 2014.
Friday, July 4, 2014
Steroid Injections For A Common Cause Of Back Pain May Not Help
Common Back And Leg Pain Treatment May Not Help Much, Study Says by Pam Belluck. The New York Times. July 2, 2014.
Wednesday, August 14, 2013
Exam-Based Care Versus Medical Procedure: Payment Practices That Distort Medicine
Study Reveals How Much Procedures Outpay Office Visits by Robert Lowes. Medscape. August 14, 2013.
(1) The authors of the study recounted here believe their findings "illustrate the need to assign a higher relative value to ___________________________________.
(2) If a higher relative values is not attached to cognitive-oriented care, procedure-oriented care will ____________________________.
(3) For physician work hour, Medicare spends almost _________ times as much for a screening colonoscopy and almost _______ times as much for cataract extraction as it does for a __________________.
(4) Such payment differentials, according to the authors, discourage physicians from______________________.
(5) The way Medicare computes time devoted to procedures versus evaluation and management tend to be copied by most __________________.
(1) The authors of the study recounted here believe their findings "illustrate the need to assign a higher relative value to ___________________________________.
(2) If a higher relative values is not attached to cognitive-oriented care, procedure-oriented care will ____________________________.
(3) For physician work hour, Medicare spends almost _________ times as much for a screening colonoscopy and almost _______ times as much for cataract extraction as it does for a __________________.
(4) Such payment differentials, according to the authors, discourage physicians from______________________.
(5) The way Medicare computes time devoted to procedures versus evaluation and management tend to be copied by most __________________.
Thursday, April 4, 2013
Cost Of Dementia: Rand Corporation Study
Monetary Costs Of Dementia In the United States by Michael D. Hurd, Ph.D, Paco Martorell, Ph.D., et al. The New England Journal Of Medicine. April 4, 2013.
Dementia Tops Cancer, Heart Disease In Cost by Marilynn Marchione AP Chief Medical Writer. ABC News. April 4, 2013.
Dementia Care Cost Is Projected To Double by 2040 by Pam Belluck. The New York Times. April 3, 2013.
The original research study and two press accounts are above. All are valuable. Among the most disturbing aspects of dementia is that the fact that baby boomers with fewer children have fewer informal caregivers, a source of care uniquely required by Alzheimer's. The concept of "emotional cost" of Alzheimer's was a powerful way to close the NY Times article and illustrates the importance of reading the entire article.
Dementia Tops Cancer, Heart Disease In Cost by Marilynn Marchione AP Chief Medical Writer. ABC News. April 4, 2013.
Dementia Care Cost Is Projected To Double by 2040 by Pam Belluck. The New York Times. April 3, 2013.
The original research study and two press accounts are above. All are valuable. Among the most disturbing aspects of dementia is that the fact that baby boomers with fewer children have fewer informal caregivers, a source of care uniquely required by Alzheimer's. The concept of "emotional cost" of Alzheimer's was a powerful way to close the NY Times article and illustrates the importance of reading the entire article.
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Rate-Setting System In Maryland May be Model For Nation
Maryland's tough New Hospital Spending Proposal Seen As 'Nationally Significant' by Jay Hancock. Kaiser Health News. March 31, 2013.
A key paragraph highlights the potential significance of Maryland's program:
The (Maryland) rate commission's "all payer" approach fixes hospital prices for everybody — commercial insurers, government programs and people paying cash — avoiding the cost-shifting from one payer to another that occurs elsewhere. The system also builds expenses for indigent care into statewide rates, ensuring that hospitals with high levels of uncompensated treatment stay in business.
A key paragraph highlights the potential significance of Maryland's program:
The (Maryland) rate commission's "all payer" approach fixes hospital prices for everybody — commercial insurers, government programs and people paying cash — avoiding the cost-shifting from one payer to another that occurs elsewhere. The system also builds expenses for indigent care into statewide rates, ensuring that hospitals with high levels of uncompensated treatment stay in business.
Thursday, December 6, 2012
Program Tests New Approach to Treating Medicare/Medicaid Eligible Poor
Medicare-Medicaid Experiment Aims To Save On Care by Mary Agnes Carey and Sarah Varney/Kaiser Health News. USA Today. December 5, 2012.
California is experimenting with moving a large group of Medicaid enrollees from traditional fee-for-service programs into managed care to see if good care can be delivered at lower cost. This program foreshadows the roll-out of a program under the Affordable Care Act for managed care for dual-eligible people i.e. those eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid. These dual-eligibles face some of the most complex medical cases from both programs. The challenge is for better coordination to eliminate costs and deliver better service. Critics site concerns regarding the speed of implementation and scope of the new program. While there is an opt-out provision in the national program, critics wonder how that would work when a significant number of the affected patients have cognitive impairment.
California is experimenting with moving a large group of Medicaid enrollees from traditional fee-for-service programs into managed care to see if good care can be delivered at lower cost. This program foreshadows the roll-out of a program under the Affordable Care Act for managed care for dual-eligible people i.e. those eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid. These dual-eligibles face some of the most complex medical cases from both programs. The challenge is for better coordination to eliminate costs and deliver better service. Critics site concerns regarding the speed of implementation and scope of the new program. While there is an opt-out provision in the national program, critics wonder how that would work when a significant number of the affected patients have cognitive impairment.
Friday, November 30, 2012
Healing Spaces: The New Hospital Room
The Best Medicine for Fixing the Modern Hospital by Russ Mitchell. Fast Company. December 2012/January 2013.
Research has shown that hospital room design has a direct effect on health. This research along with changing reimbursement incentives from Medicare emphasizing patient satisfaction has spurred an emphasis on hospital room design that is pleasant and therapeutic. Safety is also a factor in the emphasis on design with some estimates of up to 200,000 deaths each year from accidents and medical errors. This article addresses specifics of how the new hospital room might be designed. One surprising fact: Private rooms are more cost efficient than double rooms and less prone to spread of infection.
Research has shown that hospital room design has a direct effect on health. This research along with changing reimbursement incentives from Medicare emphasizing patient satisfaction has spurred an emphasis on hospital room design that is pleasant and therapeutic. Safety is also a factor in the emphasis on design with some estimates of up to 200,000 deaths each year from accidents and medical errors. This article addresses specifics of how the new hospital room might be designed. One surprising fact: Private rooms are more cost efficient than double rooms and less prone to spread of infection.
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