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Ranked: State of the states’ health care
Vermont’s good outcomes and low costs have the rest of the country green with envy.
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Insurance is a matter of life or death for lymphoma patients
Improving patient access to affordable private insurance could improve survival outcomes for patients with follicular lymphoma.
Original Research
TEAM approach reduced wait time, improved “face” time
An experimental care delivery model shows how staffing and role adjustments can enrich the health care experience for patients, staff, and...
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Who are the 'high-need, high-cost' patients?
Significant predictors included Medicare or Medicaid insurance, lower income, first hospitalization in a large rural hospital, high comorbidity...
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CMS proposes site-neutral payments for hospital outpatient setting
Site-neutral payments could save the government – and patients – money on every visit.
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Pregnancy and years of reproductive capability linked to dementia risk
CHICAGO – The findings suggest that lifelong estrogen exposure may exert a neuroprotective effect in women.
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Medicare’s bundled pay plan didn’t deliver big cost savings
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Cost led to missed care for 4.5% of Americans in 2017
Steady decline in national rate appears to have halted.
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Trump administration proposes changes to HHS, FDA
The action is part of a sweeping reform proposal, issued June 21, aimed at bringing more operational efficiency to the federal government as a...
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Do free meals to physicians affect opioid prescribing?
SAN DIEGO – Physicians who received 1 free meal made about 150 opioid claims; those who received more than 10 made more than 700 claims.