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Geographic Medicare costs disparities have more to do with health differences across communities than with inefficient care delivery, according to a new study from the Center for Studying Health System Change.
Venture capitalists invested $1.4 billion in 167 life sciences deals during the first quarter of 2013, a 14 percent drop in dollars and 16 percent slide in the number of deals, compared with last year’s first quarter.
According to the results of a study published Tuesday in Annals of Emergency Medicine, disabled Medicare patients under age 65 who are unable to take their prescription medications due to cost concerns are more likely to visit the emergency department at least once during the course of a year.
According to the results of a study published Tuesday in Annals of Emergency Medicine, disabled Medicare patients under age 65 who are unable to take their prescription medications due to cost concerns are more likely to visit the emergency department at least once during the course of a year.
The Vermont Department of Financial Regulation has rejected the licensing application of the Vermont Health CO-OP, finding "an extremely high risk of insolvency" and effectively barring the CO-OP from selling on the state insurance exchange this year.
Last week, Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas announced an agreement to pay a $1.4 million settlement to the United States Department of Justice over Medicare and Medicaid fraud allegations.
With the European and U.S. healthcare markets working to reduce spending, the global medical device market reached $331 billion in 2012, a growth rate of 3 percent from 2011, according to Kalorama Information.
The Healthy Artists project pulled together students, artists, politicians and the healthcare community to address the issue of lack of insurance in the U.S.
The cost of healthcare in 2013 for a family of four receiving health benefits through an employer-sponsored preferred provide organization (PPO) now exceeds $22,000 per year, according to the Milliman Medical Index (MMI) published this week by consulting and actuarial firm Milliman Inc.
Covered California, soon to be the nation's largest state insurance exchange, is touting the relatively low premium rates tentatively secured for individual health plans -- but HIX officials are comparing those to existing small group market rates, which isn't entirely apt.