Low-income seniors receive Novartis drugs free of chargePharmacoEconomics & Outcomes News -doi:10.2165/00151234-200404510-00028NoneSpringer International PublishingPharmacoeconomics & Outcomes News
Prescription drug coverage and seniors: how well are states closing the gap? As policymakers debate adding a drug benefit to Medicare, many states are attempting to provide drug coverage for low-income seniors through Medicaid and s... Safran,G D. - 《Health Affairs》 被引量: 333发表: 2002...
The ongoing, rising cost of prescription medications can make it extremely difficult for anyone to get the drugs that they need. The issue has become even more prevalent among those with no, or limited prescription coverage and it can lead to a dangerous road of serious health complications or...
Below we describe chemical and composting toilets for disabled, sick, or elderly people's use. Using a chemical toilet or a composting toilet to avoid the effects of medication on septic tank bacteria. Building a secure chemical toilet base to elevate the toilet above the floor. Composting toile...
Specifically, although payers have touted Medicare Advantage plans’ capacity to reduce low-value care spending for seniors, a recentstudyrevealed that Medicare Advantage plans matched or fell below traditional Medicare’s record on 13 low-value care measures. ...
The ongoing, rising cost of prescription medications can make it extremely difficult for anyone to get the drugs that they need. The issue has become even more prevalent among those with no, or limited prescription coverage and it can lead to a dangerous road of serious health complications or...
They do not have the means to front the costs of their prescription drugs while Medicare and the plans sort out the paperwork. We view the administration’s agreement to this settlement as a sign that it is now committed to providing adequate protection for these beneficiaries.”...
disappointing," Mahoney says that policymakers, philanthropists and even the experts inhealth care coststhat the study authors surveyed as part of their experiment had every reason to think that buying medical debts in collections would be a relatively low cost, scalable tool for helping people in ...
Participants enrolled from ”seniors outreach” had the lowest baseline quality of life and income, while participants from ”word of mouth” had the lowest educational attainment. Conclusion The ”health care providers” strategies were especially successful — at a moderate cost per enrolled. The "...
The size of the benefit for pain (−9.95 mm) is about the same as the benefit for nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs in acute low back pain (−8.39 mm) according to the Cochrane review on this topic.27 For function, the effect size of −0.39 is approximately equivalent to an ...