Sentences with phrase «health care consumers»

I strongly believe that being your own personal advocate and smart health care consumer is important.

First of all I definitely agree that it is very important to be an educated health care consumer.

Patients aren't true health care consumers because they typically can't shop by price and they often don't have control over the care they receive, Saini said.

Patients aren't true health care consumers because they typically can't shop by price and they often don't have control over the care they receive, Saini said.

If you are feeling for any reason that your maternity care provider is not giving you the time you need, you are free to seek out a second opinion — as any other health care consumer is entitled.

UCH also tied with The Community Hospital of Gary, Indiana, as the hospital most highly rated by health care consumers in that community, about 50 miles to the south east.

As the fusion of tech and healthcare continues to grow and evolve, so too do the tools that will allow health care consumers to take matters not only into their own hands, but anywhere a wearable...

We have to continually be reminded that we are Health Care CONSUMERS with a capital C!

As the United States grapples with what many believe is a crisis of spiraling health care costs, this study, while focused on one hospital and 100 patients, shows that when health care consumers are given pricing information, they will take costs into account.

«Unlike other areas of the U.S. economy where it's typical for people to compare prices before purchasing, health care consumers seldom know what they'll pay for a procedure, meaning they have no basis for comparing costs,» Scaife says.

The result is that, to a large extent, U.S. health care consumers are subsidizing the cost of pharmaceuticals elsewhere in the world.

Jacinte Levesque Naessens is the director general of Cerbe Distribution, Inc., a privately owned company addressing health care consumers requesting information on 714X, an immune modulator designed for degenerative... Read more

Information contained in the Ask the Pharmacist column by Armon B. Neel Jr. is intended to help individuals and their families become more informed about medication usage and interactions, and be better health care consumers.

Defeated class certification in potential multi-million dollar health care consumer fraud action, then resolved for exceptionally favorable value during the appeal.

It's important to know who's providing your medical treatment and their safety record, but many Massachusetts health care consumers fail to ask the question.

«We may need the government or other agencies to do more on behalf of seniors and other health care consumers, both for their own well - being and if we want competition to be a force for driving up value in health care,» Kuye said.

And while true reform will require all the relevant parties — government, industry, and health care consumers themselves — to make major adjustments, an insurgent group of digital health companies is doing its best to drag American medicine into the 21st century kicking and screaming.

The ethnicity of the health care consumer has to be taken into consideration while evaluating certain information of the therapeutic examination.

As The Boston Globe continues to report on the unsafe practice of concurrent surgeries, we want to remind patients and health care consumers that you...

There is broad agreement that increased physical activity counseling is a promising strategy to improve the quality of healthcare, create a better experience for the health care consumer, and lower costs.

As a health care consumer, you know how important good health care service is.