by Greg Portz December 04, 2018 Six years after the Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins medical system took over All Children’s Heart Institute in St. Petersburg, Florida, with a promise to turn the heart surgery unit into one of the best in the nation, a string of children who died at a “stunning” rate is proof that promise has […]
Janessa M. Graves Health Services Research Volume 49, Issue 2 April 2014 Pages 645–665 Abstract Objective To estimate health care utilization and costs associated with adherence to clinical practice guidelines for the use of early magnetic resonance imaging (MRI; within the first 6 weeks of injury) for acute occupational low back pain (LBP). Data Sources Washington […]
Costs includes health care, lost productivity, treatment programs WEDNESDAY, Sept. 21, 2016 (HealthDay News) — Abuse of opioids costs the U.S. economy $78.5 billion a year, according to a study published in the October issue of Medical Care. Researchers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention analyzed the financial toll of opioid abuse, […]
01.22.2016 Acupuncture, chiropractic, and massage use climbed despite no insurance coverage by Sarah Wickline Wallan Staff Writer, MedPage Today Lack of insurance hasn’t discouraged Americans from availing themselves of chiropractors, acupuncture, and massage therapy, a government study indicated. According to survey results, between 30% to 40% of adults in the U.S. used one of these […]
Illegal kickbacks, nearly $600 million in fraudulent billing, alleges DOJ By Editorial Staff Dynamic Chiropractic – January 15, 2016, Vol. 34, Issue 02 All too often, where there’s substantial money to be made, greed and corruption inevitably follow. Such appears to be the case in the world of spine surgery, with the Department of Justice […]
J Pain. 2015 Aug 27. pii: S1526-5900(15)00836-6. doi: 10.1016/j.jpain.2015.07.013. [Epub ahead of print] Nahin RL, Stussman BJ, Herman PM. Abstract National surveys suggest that millions of adults in the United States use complementary health approaches such as acupuncture, chiropractic manipulation, and herbal medicines to manage painful conditions such as arthritis, back pain and fibromyalgia. Yet, […]
July 16, 2015 Angioplasty costs range five-fold among hospitals within the same metropolitan area, Blue Cross Blue Shield claims data showed. A Study of Cost Variation for Percutaneous Coronary Interventions (Angioplasties) in the U.S.
APRIL 13, 2015 There’s no question mammograms can save lives by detecting breast cancer early. But they can also result in unnecessary testing and treatment that can be alarming and costly. In fact, each year the U.S. spends $4 billion on follow-up tests and treatments that result from inaccurate mammograms, scientists report in the current […]
Roxanne Nelson April 08, 2015 About $4 billion is spent ever year in the United States because of false-positive mammography results and breast cancer overdiagnosis, according to a new study. In an analysis that involved more than 700,000 women 40 to 59 years of age, the authors found that average expenditures ranged from $852 for every false-positive mammogram […]
Oh, my aching wallet: MRI instead of physical therapy for low back pain leads to $4,793 higher price By Lenny Bernstein March 27, 2015 Your back hurts (join the club) and you go to see your primary care physician. Most of the time, your doctor will tell you to rest, maybe take some ibuprofen or […]
DECEMBER 14, 2013 By ALAN SCHWARZ After more than 50 years leading the fight to legitimize attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, Keith Conners could be celebrating. Severely hyperactive and impulsive children, once shunned as bad seeds, are now recognized as having a real neurological problem. Doctors and parents have largely accepted drugs like Adderall and Concerta […]
A Texas doctor and five owners of home health-care agencies were arrested recently on charges that they fraudulently billed Medicare and Medicaid nearly $375 million in what authorities described as the largest case of its kind. It’s the kind of physician oversight that could bankrupt a nation. The doctor, Jacques Roy, 54, of Rockwall, was […]
Study: Unneeded Stress Tests Too Common Published: Oct 14, 2014 By Crystal Phend, Senior Staff Writer, MedPage Today Cardiac stress tests done with imaging have risen substantially and more than a third appeared inappropriate, according to a national study. While the annual frequency of cardiac stress testing stayed constant after adjustment for other factors, the […]
NerdWallet Health Study: Medical Debt Crisis Worsening Despite Policy Advances by Christina LaMontagne on October 8, 2014 | posted in Medical Bankruptcy, Medical Bills, Personal Health Finance Story Source: NerdWallet Despite recent advances in health care policy, American households continue to struggle with medical debt, and it’s only getting worse. Americans are putting more of […]
By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL SEPTEMBER 20, 2014 Story Source Before his three-hour neck surgery for herniated disks in December, Peter Drier, 37, signed a pile of consent forms. A bank technology manager who had researched his insurance coverage, Mr. Drier was prepared when the bills started arriving: $56,000 from Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan, $4,300 from […]