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Thomson Reuters Paper Charts Course to Eliminating $3.6 Trillion in Healthcare Waste in a Decade
ANN ARBOR, Mich./PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. healthcare industry can eliminate $3.6 trillion in healthcare waste over the next 10 years by addressing a series of operational inefficiencies, according to a white paper published today by Thomson Reuters. The report analyzes the country's leading public and private sector efforts to ...
Study Finds Few Health Reform Options Would Have Covered More People At Lower Cost Than New Law
The recently enacted federal health care reform law provides health insurance coverage to the largest number of Americans while keeping federal costs as low as reasonably possible, according to a new analysis from the RAND Corporation. The only alternatives that would have covered more Americans at a lower cost ...
Uninsured Americans Have 50 Percent Higher Odds Of Dying In Hospital From Heart Attack Or Stroke
An analysis of over 150,000 hospital discharges has revealed that there are significant insurance related differences in hospital mortality, length of stay, and costs among working-age Americans (age 18-64 years) hospitalized for acute myocardial infarction (AMI), stroke, or pneumonia. These three conditions are among the leading causes of non-cancer in-patient ...
DOJ Warns Hospitals, Insurers: Mergers Will Be Scrutinized
The Obama administration warned the health care industry Monday that
it "won't hesitate to block mergers that threaten to stifle
competition," The Associated Press reports. "Justice
Department antitrust chief Christine Varney told a lawyers' conference
that vigorous enforcement of anti-monopoly laws is vital to the success ...
Study Finds Results Of Physician Cost Profiling Can Vary Widely
Profiles created for physicians based on the cost of the care they provide can vary widely depending upon the methods used by insurance companies to create the profiles, according to a new RAND Corporation study. Researchers say the findings add to the concern about the accuracy of physician cost ...
Study: ICU Patients Without Insurance Coverage More Likely To Die
A study released Monday has found that intensive care patients who didn't have insurance were 21 percent more likely to die than those with insurance in Pennsylvania, Reuters reports. The University of Pennsylvania researchers' "study of intensive care units or ICUs in Pennsylvania adds to arguments that a lack ...