Reducing North Carolina’s Health Care Costs Through Environmental Disease Prevention

Disease Prevention: Saving Lives or Reducing Health Care Costs?

BACKGROUND Disease prevention has been claimed to reduce health care costs. However, preventing lethal diseases increases life expectancy and, thereby, indirectly increases the demand for health care. Previous studies have argued that on balance preventing diseases that reduce longevity increases health care costs while preventing non-fatal diseases could lead to health care savings. The object...

Controlling Health Care Costs through Commercial Insurance

Commercial insurance companies' have the market incentives and the ability to take on a new role as controllers of rising health care costs. This Note will discuss the market for insurer-directed cost containment, the types of cost control alternatives that could be utilized and the legal restraints on insurer innovation. The analysis of the legal setting for insurer innovation in cost control ...

Reducing administrative costs and improving the health care system.

1875 require treatment. CMS recognizes the importance of random variation and the need for actuarially stable populations in its Medicare Shared Savings Program, in which organizations cannot participate unless they serve at least 5000 beneficiaries. The bundled-payment initiative sets no such limits, and medium-sized hospitals typically have 100 to 200 cases for their highest-volume types of M...

[A health promotion programme's effectiveness in reducing medical care costs].

OBJECTIVE Regularly engaging in physical activity should enable disease incidence to become reduced and may result in reducing healthcare costs. Exploring possible health care cost reduction in active people. METHODS An active group of people's medical costs were contrasted with those of a control group of people taken at random from the rest of the population so covered in a health-care prov...

Environmental reform needed to decrease costs of health care.