The perceptions of nurse managers regarding cost containment issues in selected public hospitals in the Port Elizabeth metropole of the Eastern Cape were investigated. Results indicated that nurse managers required better preparation for their cost control responsibilities. Although the majority of the nurse managers realised that staffing issues affected cost containment efforts, they were rep...

Psychology Intervention, i.e., evaluafion and treatment by Psychologists, can reduce costs of medical rehabilitafion. With rising costs of health care and rapidly shrinking resources, it is imperative that expenditures are carefully monitored for effectiveness and efficiency. The great majority of studies of Psychology intervention have focused on that aspect of effectiveness which relates to o...

INTRODUCTION Physicians vary in their moral judgments about health care costs. Social intuitionism posits that moral judgments arise from gut instincts, called "moral foundations." The objective of this study was to determine if "harm" and "fairness" intuitions can explain physicians' judgments about cost-containment in U.S. health care and using cost-effectiveness data in practice, as well as ...

Healthcare data from the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System, Arizona’s Medicaid program provides a unique opportunity to exploit state-of-the-art data processing and analysis algorithms to mine data and provide actionable findings that can aid cost containment. Our work addresses specific challenges in this real-life healthcare application to build predictive risk models for forecastin...

Approximately two–thirds of healthcare costs are accounted for by 10% of the patients. Identifying such high-cost patients early can help improve their health and reduce costs. Data from the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System provides a unique opportunity to exploit state-of-the-art data analysis algorithms to mine data and provide actionable findings that can aid cost containment. A n...