2018 Billing Tests 
Scrubs
AUGUST 4, 2023
Providers are typically paid for each test and procedure they perform, which can lead to a conflict of interest, especially when patients have to foot the bill. New studies reveal just how widespread medically unnecessary care can be, forcing patients to pay for procedures and tests they may not need.
Health Populi
FEBRUARY 24, 2020
The big gap in supply to patients vs. demand by health consumers is highlighted by what the arrow in the chart below points to: managing payments and paying bills. Patient-facing digital tools help patients with fairly basic tasks like making appointments, seeking doctors, and paying bills.
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Sensible Medicine
MAY 25, 2023
For calcium deposits in breast arteries to be important, we would need to know that some action based on this finding, whether it be further diagnostic testing, lifestyle modification, or medical therapy, actually benefits a woman. One of them, the coronary artery calcium score (CAC) was reviewed in 2018 by the U.S.
Health Populi
JUNE 5, 2018
The study, Adjuvant Chemotherapy Guided by a 21-Gene Expression Assay in Breast Cancer, was published in The New England Journal of Medicine on June 3, 2018, coinciding with the researchers’ ASCO presentation of the results. ” A genetic test that costs $3,000 helps to identify women who could benefit from avoiding chemo.
Health Populi
SEPTEMBER 4, 2018
Most Americans have been surprised by a medical bill, a NORC AmeriSpeak survey found. patients blamed doctors and pharmacies, although a majority of consumers still put responsibility for surprise healthcare bills on them (71% and 64% net). adults 18 and over in August 2018. Who’s responsible? Plus ça change.
Health Populi
OCTOBER 8, 2018
As the only health economist in the family of the 2018 HIMSS Social Media Ambassadors, this is a voice through which I can uniquely speak. In February 2009, President Barack Obama signed into law the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), less formally known as the Stimulus Bill. GDP, in 2018. out of the Great Recession.
Health Populi
MARCH 15, 2019
I ran this little test because I’m speaking on Monday 18 March at the annual meeting of the Consumer Healthcare Products Association. As a short-term salve, check out this special digital section that staff from the New York Times published online in November 2018. A Google search overall yielded over 2 billion results.
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