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  • Healthcare Inflation Slowing Down, USA
    Despite newly insured people being added to the system, American healthcare inflation is expected to fall to 6.5% in 2014, says a new report by the Health Research Institute, part of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. Healthcare inflation in 2014 will drop even lower than this year "Defying historical patterns", the authors wrote...

  • If Health Plans Roll Back Coverage, They Could Affect Children With Developmental Disabilities
    Despite their inclusion as essential health benefits, habilitative services face an uncertain future under the Affordable Care Act, according to a new analysis done at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services (SPHHS)...

  • 30 Million To Remain Uninsured Under Obamacare: New State-By-State Estimates At Health Affairs Blog
    Harvard and CUNY researchers say 4.9 million Texans and 3.7 million Californians will still be uninsured in 2016 A study released recently on the Health Affairs blog finds that between 29.8 million and 31.0 million people will remain uninsured after the implementation of the Affordable Care Act in 2016 and breaks down those figures by state...

  • Law Dramatically Reduced Hospital Prices For The Uninsured
    To comply with a statewide "fair pricing" law, hospitals throughout California have significantly lowered prices to uninsured patients, with nearly all even going beyond the state mandate and offering free care to those below the poverty line. The surprising success of the legislation represents the beginnings of a safety net not in place for other states. Some 6...

  • Medicaid Expansion Best Financial Option For States
    States that choose not to expand Medicaid under federal health care reform will leave millions of their residents without health insurance and increase spending, at least in the short term, on the cost of treating uninsured residents, according to a new RAND Corporation study...

  • Young Adults Benefit Financially From Health Reform
    A new federal law allowing young adults to remain on their parents' medical insurance until age 25 has shielded them, their families and hospitals from the full financial consequences of serious medical emergencies, according to a new RAND Corporation study...

  • Immunological Tests Superior In Colon Cancer Screening
    For early detection of colorectal (colon) cancer, statutory health insurance in Germany offers a fecal occult blood test free of charge to all insured persons starting at 50 years of age. In addition, those 55 or older are entitled to an endoscopic examination of the colon (colonoscopy). Colonoscopy identifies precancerous lesions with a high level of exactitude...

  • Spirometry Reveals Over-Diagnosis Of COPD Among Uninsured Patients
    More than 40 percent of patients being treated for COPD at a federally funded clinic did not have the disease, researchers found after evaluating the patients with spirometry, the diagnostic "gold standard" for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. "While there have been many studies of the under-diagnosis of COPD, there has not been a U.S...

  • Health Care Costs More Than Year Of Groceries For American Families
    The average family in the U.S. with health insurance coverage through their employer now spends more on yearly medical care than on a year of groceries, according to a new study. The report, the 2013 Milliman Medical Index, published by Milliman Inc., looked at the costs of health care for a family of four living in the U.S...

  • Hospital Use, Costs Not Increased By Massachusetts' Health Care Reform
    Massachusetts' healthcare reform didn't result in substantially more hospital use or higher costs, according to data presented at the American Heart Association's Quality of Care and Outcomes Research Scientific Sessions 2013. The findings were true even among safety-net hospitals, which often have an open-door policy to accept patients regardless of the ability to pay...