Tag: Health Costs
Value-Driven Outcomes Tool Can Cut Health Care Costs
Highest variability in costs identified for post-op infection and sepsis, lowest for organ transplant
New Anticancer Drugs Up Costs and Life Expectancy Considerably
Lifetime costs up $72,000, life expectancy up 13 months with new drug use in breast cancer
Small Extra Cost for Water Immersion During Labor
Microsimulation study shows additional cost of $221.12 Canadian 2014 dollars per laboring woman
Donor, Recipient Characteristics Impact Transplant Costs
Living kidney donor costs up with higher degree of allosensitization; also linked to obesity
ACA Is Helping More Americans Afford Prescriptions
Improvement seen in all age levels, but millions still struggle with the cost of prescription drugs
ACA Has Increased Rx Drug Use, Cut Out-of-Pocket Spending
Larger decreases in out-of-pocket spending for those who gained coverage and had chronic conditions
PCSK9 Inhibitor Use Not Found to Be Cost-Effective
In patients with familial hypercholesterolemia, atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease
Contemporary ECG Criteria Cuts Costs of Screening Athletes
Use of Seattle and refined criteria reduces costs per athlete, per serious diagnosis versus 2010 ESC recs
ICU May Up Invasive Procedures, Costs, Without Mortality Benefit
Hospital-level ICU utilization rate not linked to hospital mortality for four common conditions
Spending on Compounded Drugs Skyrocketing
Number of Medicare beneficiaries getting compounded drugs up 281 percent since 2006
