A recent study released yesterday by Harvard demonstrates that educating patients on different treatment options a providing them a copy of their medications for future care givers can lower Medicare costs by 20%. The study was done to help investigate ways to...
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Category Archives: Health Care Costs
Eye opening stats on unintended pregnancies from a new study reported on by Kaiser this morning: “They found that rates of unintended pregnancy are far higher among poor and near-poor women (those with incomes under twice the federal poverty level) than those...
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Uwe E. Reinhardt is an economics professor at Princeton. He has some financial interests in the health care field. Professor Reinhardt compares private employer sponsored health insurance to the proposed health insurance exchanges. He concludes they are more a like than not. Any thoughts...
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The Wall Street Journal has a story today about a program called Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment, or Polst. This is a document signed by both a doctor and patient that spells out the patient’s desires related to medical intervention and complements...
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