Study: Level I trauma centers boost head injury survival
... I centers and, in many cases, to a high volume of uninsured patients. "The resources should be the same between level I and II hospitals, but in reality, the training programs in Level I centers allow better 24/7 monitoring and intervention in regards to critically ill and injured patients," said study co-aut...In years preceding medicare eligibility, many older adults at risk of being uninsured
... At least one-fourth of older U.S. adults will be uninsured at some point during the years preceding Medicare ...ackground information in the article. As a result, uninsured patients have higher rates of illness and death. Because of their higher prevalence of chronic disea...Independent voice rises to help consumers navigate health care
...ut half of consumers interviewed (51 percent) were uninsured at the time of their first call to a health consumer center, only 31 percent were uninsured when they were contacted a month later. "This suggests that the HCA played a role in helping consum...NCI's Patient Navigator Research Program: Questions and answers
...there are financial challenges (especially for the uninsured and underinsured); communication and information problems including language barriers; problems with an inferior healthcare system within their communities; travel and distance challenges that can lead to missed doctor appointments; and emotional bar...Study shows non-children's hospitals serve majority of US children
...d females, patients from low-income zip codes, and uninsured patients. "This study is the first detailed look at this set of issues, providing a picture of different institutional burdens," said Wasserman, the study's lead investigator. "While our results do not assess quality of care, we hypothesize that non-...Men with spouses, partners, fare better after prostate cancer treatment
...state cancer patients in the study low-income and uninsured or underinsured men enrolled in IMPACT, a state-funded public assistance program created at UCLA that provides free prostate cancer care. The study participants - 211 married or partnered men and 80 single men - answered a battery of quality of life ...New Illinois coalition supports cigarette tax increase
...uding men, women, children, ethnic minorities, and uninsured smokers. The CDC estimates that Illinois needs to allocate $65-179 million annually for tobacco control, but the state's fiscal year budget was only $11 million. "Tobacco use is still the number one public health crises in Illinois, costing the stat...Low colon cancer screening rates leaves a million New Yorkers at risk
...icularly colonoscopy, will need to target poor and uninsured communities."...Immigrants spend half as much on health care as native-born Americans
... immigrants had health insurance coverage. Though uninsured immigrants used the least health care of any group-61 percent less than their uninsured counterparts who were born in the U.S.-even immigrants with insurance coverage used 52 percent less ...Many resident physicians feel unprepared to care for culturally diverse patients
...an has studied medical care access problems of the uninsured and racial and ethnic minorities for many years. Increasing attention has been paid recently to how sociocultural differences between patients and providers can complicate health care leading to poor communication, patient dissatisfaction and reduc...Public patients denied effective obesity treatment
...inst on the grounds of their economic status, with uninsured patients having poor access to treatment, he says. "This is the only proven method of weight loss for severely obese patients, and yet it is not available to those who need it most," he says. "Our public hospitals are failing to offer appropriate car...Yale researcher leads successful effort to access HMO fees for Medicaid patients
...n a study of access to specialty healthcare by the uninsured and publicly insured in New Haven, Yale researchers found that recent state budget cuts, out-of-date provider rates and other policy changes had caused a decline in care by private practice physicians. "When we noticed that underinsured and publicly ...HIV patients of low socioeconomic status likelier to die more often and sooner than others
...ss likely to have private insurance and are either uninsured or covered by public insurance such as Medicaid and Medicare. "So they have an unfavorable pattern of services use --they had more of the bad stuff and less of the good stuff," he said. Other UCLA researchers in addition to Cunningham were Drs. Ron H...Medical College of Wisconsin study
...lment programs in obtaining insurance coverage for uninsured Latino children, according to a study authored by ...illion in funding. Latinos continue to be the most uninsured ethnic group, with 21 percent (2.9 million) uninsured. This rigorous, randomized, controlled trial o...Percentage of North Carolinians lacking health insurance rises, UNC study shows
... of the 10 counties with the highest proportion of uninsured lie east of Interstate 95. Cecil G. Sheps Center f...h Carolina: A 2004 Update." In it, they calculated uninsured rates for state residents under age 18 and between ages 18 and 64. Holmes is a research fellow with ...Free care by Florida emergency physicians climbs faster as uninsured patient visits increase
...cy physician groups serving an increased volume of uninsured patients had disproportionately higher rates of fr...uncompensated care is not just a problem involving uninsured patients it affects all patients," said FCEP President Jorge Lopez, MD. "The same standard of care ...ACP releases annual report on 'The State of the Nation's Health Care'
...r costs, greater inefficiency, lower quality, more uninsured persons, and growing patient and physician dissatisfaction." Providing a public policy perspective, Robert Doherty, senior vice president, ACP Governmental Affairs and Public Policy, said ACP was calling on policymakers to: implement and evaluate ...Doctors fail to recommend colon cancer tests for low-income patients
...Medicaid managed care plan; another 25 percent are uninsured and pay for their care on a federally approved sliding fee scale; and 10 percent are covered by Medicare. Underuse by these groups may be due in greater part to healthcare provider- or system-level barriers rather than characteristics of the individ...Study shows AIDS drugs cost-effective, care underfunded
...ity of people who are infected with HIV are either uninsured or underinsured" and unable to pay for their care, said Dr. Saag. "So in reality, the actual reimbursement to clinics is markedly less than $360 per patient per year, making the situation even more dire," he added. As a consequence, said Dr. Saag, "...Mayo Clinic to host inaugural National Symposium on Health Care Reform in May
...he Safety Net" focuses on the continued concern of uninsured and underinsured patients. The financial burden is high and for those unable to pay, expenses shift to providers, employers and taxpayers; these costs drive up insurance and health care costs. Panelists are Stuart Butler, Ph.D., The Heritage Foundati...