Tag: reducing healthcare costs
Administrative costs, provider salaries, and pharmaceutical prices drive higher healthcare spending in the United States
1. Administrative costs, physician and nurse salaries, and pharmaceutical prices are higher in the U.S. compared to other highly developed ...
Value-based payment modifier program not associated with differences in performance program measures
1. Taking into account additional patient characteristics largely influenced performance differences between practices serving high and low risk patients. 2. ...
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Ultrasound and cystoscopy may be most cost-effective for asymptomatic microscopic hematuria
1. In this decision-analytic model-based cost-effectiveness analysis of diagnostic tools used to investigate asymptomatic microscopic hematuria (AMH), the most frequently ...
Patterns of low- and high-value care amongst uninsured/Medicaid patients and safety-net physicians
1. In this cross-sectional study of out-patient medical visits in the United States, patients without insurance or patients with Medicaid ...
Curriculum for patient-centered counseling not linked to reduced low-value testing
1. A standardized patient (SP)-based curriculum in patient-centered techniques for addressing requests for low-value diagnostic tests was not associated with ...
New score assesses residents’ knowledge of high value care
1. Using questions from the Internal Medicine In-Training Exam, the authors developed a score to measure residents’ knowledge of high ...
Nursing staff cuts associated with increased risk of preventable deaths
Image: PD 1. Every one patient increase per nurse workload is associated with a 7% increase in the likelihood of ...