What's driving health care costs?

Tracking health care costs: what's new in 1998?

Author’s response to reviews Title: What's in your wallet? A cluster randomized trial of the effects of showing comparative patient out-of-pocket costs on primary care prescribing for uncomplicated hypertension. Authors:

Title: What's in your wallet? A cluster randomized trial of the effects of showing comparative patient out-of-pocket costs on primary care prescribing for uncomplicated hypertension. Authors: Robyn Tamblyn ([email protected]) Nancy Winslade ([email protected]) Christina J. Qian ([email protected]) Teresa Moraga ([email protected]) Allen Huang ([email protected]) Ve...

Accountable care organizations: the case for flexible partnerships between health plans and providers.

Under the Affordable Care Act, the new Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation will guide a number of experimental programs in health care payment and delivery. Among the most ambitious of the reform models is the accountable care organization (ACO), which will offer providers economic rewards if they can reduce Medicare's cost growth in their communities. However, the dismal history of pro...

[Epidemiology and prevention of chronic diseases].

This course covers the major chronic diseases and their risk factors. The importance of this subject cannot be overstated since it is the major factor driving health care costs. The U.S. now spends more money per capita than any other nation yet is behind in longevity. Chronic diseases are the major factors driving these costs. The more epidemiologists understand about these diseases, the bette...

Rising drug costs: the impact on dermatology.

In the US prescription drug costs are rising faster than any other component of health care expenditures, and show no signs of slowing. Spending on prescription drugs has been estimated by the Health Care Finance Administration (HCFA) to be rising by approximately 12% per year, more than twice the rate for national health care expenditures (5.1%). Factors driving the rise in prescription drug c...