Posts Tagged ‘millions’
Hope For Millions Who Suffer From Arthritic Pain
An expert network of doctors and research scientists is forming the world’s first national centre for research into understanding pain in arthritis. Backed by medical research charity the Arthritis Research Campaign and The University of Nottingham, it will aim to improve treatments for arthritis – the most common cause of chronic pain – which affects more than ten million people in the UK. The charity has awarded funding of £2.
Medicare Cutbacks Threaten To Put Cardiac Care Out Of Reach For Millions Of Rural Americans
Medicare regulatory changes expected to be finalized in November but overshadowed by the partisan bluster of the ongoing health care debate pose an imminent threat to 80 million patients in America suffering from heart disease, especially for the nearly one in four Americans over the age of 65 living in rural areas.
Eye Treatment Reimbursement Change Could Cost Medicare Millions
A change in the reimbursement rate for the drug Avastin, used off-label to treat an eye illness in the elderly, could lead Medicare doctors to use a much costlier drug that would cost the system millions, The New York Times reports.
Relief For The Millions Affected By Pain
An unprecedented gathering of some of Australia’s leading authorities in pain medicine, together with consumer groups representing chronic pain sufferers, met in Melbourneto work towards a national, coordinated approach to managing chronic pain.
Marshfield Clinic Saves Medicare Millions While Improving Quality Of Care
Marshfield Clinic has improved the quality of health care it delivers to patients while decreasing health care costs in the third performance year of a five-year Medicare demonstration project, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced today. “Marshfield Clinic saw years ago that reform was necessary,” said Theodore A. Praxel, M.D., M.M.M., FACP, medical director, Quality Improvement and Care Management, Marshfield Clinic.
Study Finds Innappropriate Drug Prescriptions Wasting Millions, Raising Health Risks
A recent study in Oregon suggests that drugs designed for treating the most severe mental illnesses are often prescribed at inappropriately low doses and at considerable expense, for use in conditions where their benefit has not been established. In this case, prescription drugs that might cost as much as $20 to $25 a day were being widely used to treat problems for which they were not FDA-approved.
Pennsylvania Spent Millions On Medicaid Payments For Ineligible Residents, Audit Finds
Pennsylvania has spent millions of dollars annually on Medicaid payments for residents who no longer qualify for the program, according to a state audit released on Wednesday, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports. According to the audit by Auditor General Jack Wagner, the state
Millions Of SCHIP Children To Receive Mental Health Parity
The Senate on Thursday passed H.R. 2, renewing and expanding the State Children’s Health Insurance Program and extending critical mental health parity benefits to millions of recipients for the first time. “In a time of economic uncertainty, when more Americans than ever are uninsured, access to health and mental health services is critical for children to exercise their full and healthiest potential,” said Robert Bernstein, Ph.D.
AARP Thanks Senate For Moving Health Reform Forward – Strengthening SCHIP Brings Quality, Affordable Coverage To Millions
AARP Executive Vice President Nancy LeaMond thanked the Senate for strengthening the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). Her statement follows: “Today’s Senate vote brings us one big step closer to fixing our broken health care system. Strengthening SCHIP will bring needed health care to millions of children in families that are struggling to afford coverage.
Aspirin Can Prevent Liver Damage That Afflicts Millions, Yale Study Finds
Simple aspirin may prevent liver damage in millions of people suffering from side effects of common drugs, alcohol abuse, and obesity-related liver disease, a new Yale University study suggests. The study in the January 26 edition of Journal of Clinical Investigation documents that in mice, aspirin reduced mortality caused by an overdose of acetaminophen, best known by the brand name Tylenol.
Rx Drug Compare
Translator
By N2H