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...oyment, lower household income, and lack of health insurance prevalent in this population may have prevented re...es and waiting lists for services. "Regardless of insurance status, lack of available and accessible care is the largest part of the problem for Harlem resident...Women more likely to get regular cancer screening if primary care is well-organized, study finds
...ccount a variety of attitudinal, socioeconomic and insurance barriers to screening. It involved 1,205 primarily...men or those enrolled in public or private non-HMO insurance programs....Direct contracting health plan cuts costs, not quality
...ealth care providers by cutting out the middle-man insurance companies, explains lead author Alan Lyles, ScD, MPH, associate professor at the University of Baltimore and adjunct associate professor of health policy and management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Our study shows that the ...Childhood stroke deaths drop, but still higher among blacks
...ase, exploring the impact of socioeconomic status, insurance coverage or lack thereof, and geographic factors, such as urban and rural residence on childhood stroke deaths....Examining the effects of managed care on alcohol and other drug treatment
...izing evidence-based clinical practices. Indemnity insurance coverage was the prevalent form of health care in ... Today more than half of all Americans with health insurance are enrolled in some kind of managed care plan. The predominant forms of MCOs are health maintenanc...New data on overcrowding crisis finds critically ill flooding emergency departments
...rgest group of visits, added Dr. Lambe. For years, insurance companies, HMOs and some health policy advisors have said that emergency departments attract and encourage patients with nonurgent problems, said Robert W. Derlet, MD, of the University of California Davis Medical Center in Sacramento, and author of ...Managed care linked to reduced hospital admission rates in California
...n the prevalence of disease, patient demographics, insurance status, patient health-seeking behavior, and physician admitting practices. In the new study, researchers analyzed 1990-1997 data on managed care penetration and hospitalization rates for adults (ages 18-64) in 394 communities throughout the state of...Low socioeconomic status may influence quality of breast cancer treatment
...rty line. The rest of the women had other forms of insurance or were uninsured. The authors found that, compared with white women, African-American women were 53% more likely than white women to be diagnosed with later-stage disease, 26% less likely to receive radiation after breast-conserving surgery, more ...Tool pinpoints acceptable pricing of combination vaccines
...rent willing to pay? How much will government and insurance cover? Such issues are becoming real, says a Univ...nclusion of concerns of health-care consumers, the insurance industry and government so that they do not overpay. We can sit down with all parties and plug in t...Study shows loosening managed care restrictions may improve doctor-patient relationship
... his colleagues also found that the lack of health insurance is a major impediment to the patient-practitioner relationship. Uninsured patients ranked their relationship with their primary care physician as significantly lower when compared to their insured counterparts. These finding add to our understanding...UCSF scientists may have found link to early childhood tooth decay
...gnificantly with the childs age and lack of dental insurance of the children and that ECC also correlates with ...ificant correlation between ECC and lack of dental insurance of the children, Ramos-Gomez said. Children without dental insurance were more than twice as likely...ACP-ASIM releases plan to eliminate uninsured by 2009
...ars.pdf ) to ensure that all Americans have health insurance within seven years. Weve all learned that changing the health insurance system cannot be accomplished overnight, but it is abundantly clear that it will never be accomplish...Drug cocktail prevents hepatitis B virus from recurring after liver transplant
...to be good candidates for transplantation and many insurance providers including Medicare denied reimbursement for a transplant for HBV patients. Early strategies to improve the post-transplant outcome for preventing recurrent HBV infection included perioperative HBIg treatment that, as mentioned, showed a s...Episiotomy rates decreasing, but procedure still overused
...likely to be younger, white and covered by private insurance than those who did not have the procedure. For further review, similar data was used from the Magee-Womens Hospital of the UPMC Health System, a National Center of Excellence in Womens Health and a teaching hospital dedicated to the care of women and...Surprising findings on Medicaid kids and the ER
... bring the child to the ER, as well as the child's insurance status, age, gender, race, chronic conditions, and primary care and ER habits and history. In all, 52 percent of the children were on Medicaid, 45 percent had private insurance, and 3 percent had no insurance. Even though the children in the sample ...Insurers should pay for children's costly cancer treatments
... $1 billion price tag could serve as a red flag to insurance companies, which base their medical decisions largely on a procedure's up-front costs instead of its long-term benefits, said Breitfeld. "There is considerable interest in reducing health care costs, but few of us are analyzing data to determine wha...Understanding cancer patients' needs, concerns, is key to improving clinical trial participation
... lack of resources on the part of patients; health insurance restrictions; confusion about the difference between research and medical care; confusion about study procedures; and misunderstandings of the illness and its severity. The observations also turned up three potential barriers to truly voluntary clini...Why do doctors lie to insurers?
...way. Your next option is bypass surgery, but your insurance company won't pay for it unless your symptoms get ...re willing to misrepresent clinical information to insurance companies in order for their patients to receive the medical treatment they feel is necessary. Senio...Prostate cancer is costly for Californians, according to UCSF researchers
...al direct costs, with Medicare and private health insurance sharing almost equally in paying for hospital care. The mean cost for a person hospitalized for prostate cancer was $6,939. In addition, prostate cancer adds an average of $3,388 in costs for a patient hospitalized for another reason, such as heart ...Health-care expert proposes overhaul of long-term care financing
...ities Kaplan proposes that private long-term care insurance be improved to make it more appealing. Fewer than...Illinois Law Review. This is largely because such insurance "is expensive, confusing and of uncertain reliability." Shifting the cost of nursing-home care to M...