News tagged with uninsured patients
Hospital price transparancy laws in California fall short, study finds
Dec 01, 2009 |
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Uninsured patients in California are unable to successfully obtain information about the cost of medical care at hospitals despite recent state legislation intended to improve price transparency, according to a new study.
Uninsured more likely to die after trauma
Nov 16, 2009 |
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Americans without health insurance appear more likely to die following admission to the hospital for trauma than those with health care coverage, according to a report in the November issue of Archives of Surgery.
A need for leadership in primary care
Sep 30, 2009 |
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Community health centers have become the centerpiece of the nation's efforts to provide access to primary care for all and therefore experience a greater need for primary care providers, who already are in short supply. According ...
Race and insurance status associated with death from trauma
Oct 20, 2008 |
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African American and Hispanic patients are more likely to die following trauma than white patients, and uninsured patients have a higher death risk when compared with those who have health insurance, according to a report ...
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Uninsured can't access specialty services
Sep 11, 2007 |
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A U.S. study suggested uninsured patients at community health centers often encounter problems when seeking specialty services outside such centers.
CRC screening before Medicare age could save millions in federal health-care dollars
Oct 06, 2008 |
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A screening program for colon cancer in patients starting ten years prior to Medicare eligibility, at age 55 instead of Medicare's 65, would save at least two dollars for every dollar spent, according to a new study presented ...
What we 'know' may not be so, when it comes to the uninsured and ERs
Oct 21, 2008 |
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The 47 million Americans who lack health insurance are the reason emergency departments are crowded all the time – right? And only the uninsured visit the emergency department for minor complaints, because it's easier than ...
Major study links insurance status to advanced stage in multiple cancers
Feb 18, 2008 |
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A new American Cancer Society study of twelve types of cancer among more than 3.5 million cancer patients finds uninsured patients were significantly more likely to present with advanced stage cancer compared to patients ...
Lack of insurance may have figured in nearly 17,000 childhood deaths, study shows
Oct 29, 2009 |
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Lack of health insurance might have led or contributed to nearly 17,000 deaths among hospitalized children in the United States in the span of less than two decades, according to research led by the Johns Hopkins Children's ...
Free drug samples may end up costing uninsured more
Sep 05, 2008 |
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Free drug samples provided to physicians by pharmaceutical companies could actually be costing uninsured patients more in the long run, according to a study done by researchers at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center ...
Poor and uninsured patients more likely to experience racial discrimination
Jun 25, 2008 |
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A new study in Health Services Research tried to disentangle the impact of a patient's racial and ethnic background, being poor and having no health insurance on the likelihood they would report having experienced racial ...
Those least needy most likely to get free drug samples
Medicine & Health / Medications
Jan 04, 2008 |
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Most free drug samples are not used to ease the burden of the poor or the uninsured, but rather go to those most able to pay for their prescriptions, according to a study by physicians from Cambridge Health Alliance ...
Study shows high rates, rising costs of alcohol/drug disorders in hospitalized patients
Jun 25, 2008 |
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[B]Alcohol abuse more common in insured patients, drug abuse in uninsured[/B] Fourteen percent of patients admitted to the hospital have alcohol/drug abuse and addiction (ADAA) disorders, costs for which have risen sha ...
Hospitals propose mandatory insurance
Feb 22, 2007 |
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The Federation of American Hospitals in Washington has suggested that all U.S. citizens be required to have basic health insurance.
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