Raising The Retirement Age In The United States Could Save Billions In Social Security Payments
...ar of age increase in the retirement age decreases payments for a yearand increases revenues for a year. To come up with their findings, Manton and Tolley studied health and mortalitydata from several National Long Term Care Surveys -- longitudinal surveysof the U.S.'s elderly population sponsored by the Nat...Acceptability Of Alternative Health Care Growing In U.S.
...sitionfrom fee-for-service and indemnity insurance payments to managed care plans. Some insurershave found that covering alternative therapies is cost effective. "Insurance companies are increasingly covering alternative practices and this may providemore equitable care," Gordon said. Alternat...... or both lives will indicate the numberof required payments and the amount of funds needed to cover those payments. In the article, the researchers noted that joint survival has typically beenestimated assuming independence of the lives covered -- that is, the death of oneperson covered by the annuity has no ......ate costs, the Duke researchers looked at Medicare payments forthe initial hospital treatment as well as the f...s were not part of this study. Medicare payments for the initial treatment as well as the first sixmonths of after-care for patients with a stroke, h...Financial stress doubles periodontal disease risk
...eenough? Do you have difficulty in meeting monthly payments of your family bills? And, how often is it that you don't have enough money to afford the kindof food, clothing, medical care, or leisure activities you and your family needor want? Further studies are needed to help establish the time course of str...Instead of making life easier, disability payments and other economic benefitsare associated with increased disability and depression in persons with chronicnonmalignant back pain, new research by scientists at the University of Medicineand Dentistry-New Jersey Medical School shows. Social reward lik...Study finds problems with buying drugs on the Internet
...rugs in five Philadelphia-area pharmacies and with payments for physicianvisits by Medicare and managed care organizations in the Philadelphia area. The article and editorial will be published in Annals of InternalMedicine in December 1999 but are available now on the Annals of InternalMedicine Web si...Cigarette smoking cost Medicare program $20.5 billion in 1997, according to UCSF researchers
...he Medicare program are onlyone out of 30 years of payments by the Medicare program for aged and disabledperso...ed diseases, suggesting that theaggregate Medicare payments over the 30 years could have exceeded $600 billionin current dollars," said Dorothy Rice, ScD, co-au...Depression costs UK economy 2 billion a year, conference will be told
...se suffering fromwork related stress. Often these payments are made out of court to preventshareholders, other employees and customers knowing the truth. A Unique Collaboration Those supporting the Depression A Social and Economic Timebomb Conferenceinclude: The World Heath Organisation The Institute of......raphic changes, recent policy shifts on government payments to nursing homes -- most notably those enacted under the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 -- have also been unfavorable to the industry. In addition, Bishop found that by 1995 nursing homes were increasingly serving a group of patients barely in evidenc...The silent time bomb: divorce, health care and the baby boom generation
...bjects' lives: families living together, financial payments or support from children to parent, and time spent by children with parents. What Schone and Pezzin found was that people who had been divorced were much less likely to reside with a child and were less likely to receive care from their children even...University of Rochester awarded patent for class of drugs known as cox-2 inhibitors
... Over the 17-year life of the patent, royalty payments could yield the University royalties in the billions of dollars, making it the most lucrative pharmaceutical patent in history. The new class of drugs was developed after researchers at the University of Rochester discovered the gene in humans t...Millennium, Aventis Pharma form novel alliance
...to its drug discovery technologies in exchange for payments of up to $200 million over a five-year period. Und...eements represent a total of up to $450 million in payments to and investments in Millennium by Aventis. Both the Inflammation and Technology Development Agree......g or lectures, equity including stock options, and payments for directorships or executive roles. Suggests key terms, such as "family" be clearly defined. Seeks clear delineation of any allowable financial interest, such as mutual funds. Require disclosure to journals considering publishing related rese...Examining the effects of managed care on alcohol and other drug treatment
...caid population. Researchers found a reduction in payments for AOD treatment without an arbitrary cutting of services or restricting of access for disadvantaged groups. The finding is surprising, prior to further examination, in that it goes against the popular belief, or should I say fear, about the effects...HMO patients more likely to get health counseling, preventive services
...patients among doctors receiving different type of payments under managed care. Balkrishnan said the researchers found that "physicians responded ethically to capitation incentives by treating patients consistently, despite varying methods of payment." He said that finding that dispels some of the fears ass...Undisclosed payments to doctors recruiting trial patients is unethical
...ls sponsored by pharmaceutical companies, yet such payments are often not disclosed to the patients. Researche...nts more fully in clinical trials. Over the years, payments have soared to thousands of pounds per completed patient, and well- organised British general practi...Study finds Medicare overbilling may be caused by government's faulty reimbursement
...ding system used to determine physicians' Medicare payments is an unvalidated process prone to errors. (Reliability of Assigning Correct Current Procedural Terminology--4 E/M Codes) "The American College of Emergency Physicians strongly supports government efforts to remove fraudulent practices from the Medic...Drotrecogin alfa (activated) is a cost-effective treatment for severe sepsis patients
...ospitals of new treatments by providing additional payments to hospitals that provide new technologies or services that substantially improve patient outcomes. The Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services determined that drotrecogin alfa (activated) meets the required criteria and, since October 1, 2002, hos......ergency department charges are paid and that these payments continue to spiral downwards," said Rita K. Cydulk... 60 percent to 53 percent. The largest decline in payments was observed among the privately insured, whose payments decreased from 75 percent of charges to63 p...