Lyme disease is associated with significant health care costs
1. Lyme disease (LD) is associated with substantial health care costs, with per-patient direct costs consistently high across several analytic ...
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Cancer screening costs in the United States may exceed $40 billion annually
1. In the United States, the estimated annual cost of cancer screening was $43 billion, with private insurance covering the ...
Appendicitis hospitalization care costs higher among patients with delayed diagnosis of appendicitis
1. In a cohort of individuals who underwent an appendectomy, those with a delayed diagnosis had higher hospital costs than ...
Higher hospitalist continuity of care linked to improved clinical outcomes
1. In this retrospective cohort analysis, patients admitted under services with greater hospitalist continuity of care had lower 30-day mortality ...
Significant unreimbursed costs linked to care coordination for medically complex children
The estimated nonreimbursed staff costs of care coordination for medically complex children was conservatively estimated to be 145-210% per child ...
Prescribing generic alternatives to brand-name combination medications can significantly reduce Medicare spending
1. In this retrospective cost analysis, Medicare spending exceeded $2.9 billion for the 10 most costly brand-name combination medications available ...
Intensive management for sicker patients increases outpatient care but not costs
1. Patients who were apart of the intensive management group that were higher risk received greater outpatient care. 2. Overall ...
Hospice care may not decrease Medicare costs in patients on maintenance dialysis
1. In this cross-sectional study, of those patients on maintenance hemodialysis that were referred to hospice care, 41.5% received care ...
