California's recently passed Health Insurance Act of 2003 (HIA) is an extremely costly mandate on employers to provide health coverage for all of their employees. HIA applies to all businesses with more than 20 employees and requires employers to either provide private health coverage or pay into...
In 1965, Congress established Medicare Part A Hospital Insurance, which copied the structure of Blue Cross plans and employed them to administer reimbursements to providers. Under this arrangement, Medicare paid hospitals for reasonable costs incurred in the delivery of needed health services. By doing...
Some physicians and hospitals offer discounts of up to 35% to patients who do not have health insurance. Washington Hospital Healthcare System[6] , located in California, offers a 35% discount for uninsured patients. The hospital also has a financial assistance program for qualifying uninsured pat...
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California is suing a group of pharmacy managers and insulin manufacturers, including pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly, for using “unlawful, unfair and deceptive” means to drive up the cost of the diabetes drug, Attorney General ...
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(Brian M. in California) to call you back is one of the more disappointing and frustrating aspects. They know there's not a thing you can do so they just ignore you. No wonder this nation's health care is such a mess. Shame on these providers and even more so on the insurance ...
period present an opportunity for possible cost savings in a competitive CLL landscape,” lead study author Bita Fakhri, MD, MPH, an assistant professor of medicine (hematology) in the Division of Hematology at Stanford University School of Medicine in California, and coauthors, wrote...
All analyses were completed from the societal perspective (taking into account all total economic costs and benefits without regard for payer). Figure 1 provides an overview of factors related to costs involved in treating patients with HIV and their quality of life as health utilities (left ...
Can health care costs be reduced by limiting intensive care at the end of life? Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2002;165(6):750-754.PubMedGoogle ScholarCrossref 18. Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care. End-of-Life Care in California: You Don't Always Get What You Want. April 2013. http:/...