Reducing Health Care Costs With New Nine-Step Plan
This nine-point plan includes streamlining in billing, reduction in high facility fees and reducing drug costs.
This nine-point plan includes streamlining in billing, reduction in high facility fees and reducing drug costs.
There was no difference in patient outcomes when physicians order more — or more pricey — tests and treatments.
National health expenditures are expected to represent 19.9% of gross domestic product by 2025.
The greatest areas of growth in absolute terms were inpatient well-newborn care, ADHD and asthma.
The highest spending was on diabetes, ischemic heart disease and low back and neck pain in 2013.
Despite offering assistance to those who cannot afford expensive medications, copay assistance programs create broader problems for patients.
This study shows that a multifaceted value-driven outcomes tool can reduce the cost of health care by identifying variability in costs and outcomes.