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Healthcare spending inches up as patients absorb costs
A tough economic environment and greater cost-sharing by patients helped keep healthcare spending mostly in check during 2010, reported Reuters. According to data from the Centers for Medicare &
Insurance policies are getting coverage labels
I am a chronic food label reader, scanning everything I purchase in the grocery store to ensure it adheres to my particular dietary choices. I also read the dreaded fine print related to medications
Insurer-owned clinics help prevent big hospital bills
Health insurers increasingly are opening their own clinics to help save money. The goal is smarter care, not less care. "It's really just trying to make basic routine services a lot more available,"
Hospitalized homeless patients may incur higher costs
Homeless individuals, when hospitalized, may cost on average $2,500 more per stay than other patients because of seriously related health conditions and longer lengths of stay, Canadian researchers
Healthcare use, costs higher for ER patients with adverse drug events
Emergency room patients who show up with adverse drug events use more services and are more expensive than ER patients who present for other reasons, according to a study published Friday in the
Hospital must slash budget by $3 million
The biggest challenge for Tucson Medical Center is to cut the costs of care, President and CEO Judy Rich told Kaiser Health News. One big reason for the belt-tightening will be the 1.3 percent
Hospitals cut costs with on-site staff wellness programs
Like other employers, hospitals increasingly are turning to on-site staff wellness programs to curb employee healthcare costs. The financial consequences of poor employee health can be severe. For
174 percent surge in blood infection costs led hospital cost hikes
Although health insurers have gotten the most attention for raising prices over the past few years, hospital costs haven't exactly been on a decline. In fact, inflation-adjusted hospital costs
Individual health insurance mandate: Insights from Massachusetts
While many people are worried about the impact of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's requirement that most Americans have health insurance, the individual health insurance mandate
Three steps to improving medication adherence, reducing costly hospital stays
Up to half of all patients fail to take their medications faithfully as prescribed, compromising their health and costing the healthcare system $100 billion in preventable hospital stays per year,
