Sentences with phrase «high medical costs in»

However, alternative forms of critical illness cover provide direct payment to health providers to cover the high medical costs in treating critical illnesses such as cancer, cardiovascular procedures and organ transplants.

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May 2 - U.S. health insurer Humana Inc reported higher - than - estimated medical costs in its core direct - to - consumer Medicare Advantage business for seniors and the disabled, sending shares down 2.1 percent.

The Canadian Medical Association, argued in its pre-budget submission that the government should maintain access to the small business deduction for physicians, since they enter the workforce later in life and often with significant debt, and unlike small businesses are unable to pass on higher costs to clients.

The program helps companies with promising early data — often obtained overseas, because of the high cost of medical testing in Canada — design and execute the key study provincial authorities need to see to sign off.

As it turns out, people with higher income levels are more likely than those of modest means to opt for HSA - qualified health plans, because they are less concerned by the potential out - of - pocket medical costs and more interested in the tax savings, according to Fronstin at EBRI.

«Research has shown that the costs of treating chronic medical conditions are 40 percent higher in patients who are depressed,» he says.

Recent legislation places tighter controls on workers» compensation medical costs and ensures that insurance carriers» requests for rate increases receive a high level of scrutiny to tackle recent increases in premiums.

There are myriad factors that are likely feeding into this public health gap, including big geographic and socioeconomic disparities in access to medical care and the sky - high cost of American medicine.

In theory, the fee is supposed to act as both carrot and stick — smokers who want health insurance would either pay the higher premiums to help insurers cover their historically higher health care costs or quit smoking so they can save both themselves (and the broader medical system) money.

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Furthermore, he's expressed support for the ACA's guaranteed coverage provisions for people with pre-existing conditions, but potential plans to nix Obamacare's mandate that everyone carry insurance and the introduction of high - risk pools for the sick could result in an exorbitantly expensive system for people who already face massive medical costs.

Cruz has arguably been making a Byrd case for his amendment in recent days, by describing it as direct taxpayer subsidization of people's high medical costs.

«Eliminating the medical expense deduction amounts to a health tax on millions of Americans with high medical costs — especially middle income seniors,» the group said in a statement.

Higher interest rates and compressing cap rates have increased the cost of capital and narrowed investment spreads for medical office - focused REITs, prompting Stifel to downgrade three stocks in the space.

Our off - site medical billing staff maintains high - quality work while costing less than the high salaries that are usually paid out to in - house employees.

Reasons that could qualify you for this include financial trouble, high medical costs, a recent change in where you work, and anything else your servicer identifies as a viable reason.

Last month, DMG posted a $ 5 million operating loss in the third quarter due to higher - than - expected medical costs, prompting the company to put the unit up for sale.

«Women not only need to catch up with men but they also need to save more because their medical costs tend to be higher in retirement,» Huddleston said.

The great issues of our time are moral: the uses of power; wealth and poverty; human rights; the moral quality and character of society; loss of the sense of the common good in tandem with the pampering of private interests; domestic violence; outrageous legal and medical costs in a system of maldistributed services; unprecedented developments in biotechnologies which portend good but risk evil; the violation of public trust by high elected officials and their appointees; the growing militarization of many societies; continued racism; the persistence of hunger and malnutrition; a still exploding population in societies hard put to increase jobs and resources; abortion; euthanasia; care for the environment; the claims of future generations.

Richard Lamm, the former governor of Colorado who has campaigned against excessive medical costs, recently cited the case of a patient in a Washington, D.C., hospital who has been in a comatose state since Lamm was a high school student.

I think we can now all agree even with the high rate of medical technology and the soaring cost of childbirth, the United States is still in a sorry state.

Mike Marsh, BJOG Deputy Editor - in - chief said: «Unintended pregnancy has been linked to poor prenatal care, high risk pregnancy behaviours, increased rates of preterm birth and low birth rate, poor social outcomes in childhood and increased medical costs.

If your pregnancy costs were particularly high this past year, it may be worth your while (or your partner's) to fill out the longer tax form in which each medical expense is accounted for — instead of filling out the standard tax form.

One study suggests a higher cost, and one study no differences in cost of postnatal care when midwife - led continuity of care is compared with medical - led maternity care.

Without the visiting nurses, like Livia Brown, seen caring for Ariella, she would be in a medical foster home or a hospital or long - term care facility, probably at higher cost.

They also cite the high - cost of doing business in the state for small businesses in particular and the need to reform medical liability and the Scaffold Law.

That's the price tag for excess medical costs associated with the high rates of obesity in the Finger Lakes, according to a study by Excellus Blue Cross Blue Shield.

With this move, we have the ability to utilize a state of the art medical examiner's office without the high costs associated with putting in place our own.

Since then, the sources said, a battle has continued over payments for «education costs and health care» for 20 - year - old daughters Cara and Mariah, who attend Harvard and Brown universities, respectively, and Michaela, 18, who recently graduated from high school a few months after being taken to the Westchester County Medical Center after an unexplained incident in which she was found unconscious at her mother's home.

But the mayor noted that seeking additional revenue from valuable property owners in Albany such as Albany Medical Center or imposing student fees at local higher - education institutions would likely result in those entities or groups clamoring for the state to either block the local efforts or pick up the costs.

In the first 90 days after surgery, those who had been taking opioids had medical costs three times higher than those who hadn't.

The number of U.S. medical students choosing careers in family practice plummeted by more than 50 percent in just the last eight years, but ironically, the more specialists there are in a state per capita, the lower the quality rank of medical care in that state and the higher the cost.

«The higher costs associated with obesity are believed to be largely due to managing comorbid medical conditions linked to obesity, such as diabetes,» said lead study author Hilal Maradit - Kremers, MD, an associate professor of epidemiology at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn..

However, research has been inconclusive as to whether the higher related medical costs in obese TKR patients are directly due to a higher BMI or related comorbidities.

More than half of TKR patients have a body mass index (BMI) within the obesity range (greater than 30 kg / m ²), which has been linked to a higher risk for related comorbidities such as diabetes, hypertension, osteoarthritis; and in some studies, to higher medical costs and longer hospital stays.

«With our protocols, the cost per new genome falls below $ 4,000, making insect sequencing projects feasible for college and, in the foreseeable future, high school students,» said Nick Grishin of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.

An analysis of medical costs associated with atherosclerotic lower extremity peripheral artery disease, a dangerous condition in which a buildup of plaque in the arteries restricts blood flow to the legs and feet, found that health care costs in one year were $ 18,000 higher in smokers with the condition than non-smokers with the condition.

«The high overall prevalence of food insecurity and cost - related medication underuse highlights how difficult successful chronic disease management in the current social environment is,» says lead investigator Seth A. Berkowitz, MD, Division of General Internal Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

The technology likely has a long, promising future in the medical field, but only if the makers of these machines can solve a few key problems, in particular high costs and safety concerns.

Yet we have a medical system that, due to high costs and doctors who treat black patients differently, presents important advances in medical care — like genetic tests — as something optional for African Americans.

For younger women aged 21 to 44, average treatment costs in the first year after a breast cancer diagnosis were $ 97,486 higher than average medical costs for similar women who didn't have breast cancer, the study found.

The cost of higher education in the U.S., and the medical revolution ignited by the rise of fecal transplants.

Medical ethicists at Johns Hopkins and Brigham and Women's Hospital provide a roadmap to the health care holy grail of higher quality, lower cost care via referrals, while avoiding the ethical pitfalls of managed care in the 1990s.

«With the increase in lifestyle - related diseases around the world, estimated fitness is an easy, cost - effective method that could significantly help medical professionals identify people at high risk,» said co-author Carl J. Lavie, MD, professor of medicine at the John Ochsner Heart and Vascular Institute, in a press release.

While modern medicine continues to rely on the same illogical and poor symptomatic psoriasis drug treatment methods, over half of all psoriasis patients in America alone refuse conventional psoriasis medical treatment due to the high cost in addition to very poor outcomes.

Each one of us can be responsible for our own health by avoiding junk food in all its disguises, maintaining a moderate amount of physical activity and regulating stress, thereby having a higher quality of life with very low medical costs, reduced disease risk and more productivity.

For one, employers in the United States pay higher health insurance premiums to cover the medical costs associated with it.

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Although Wisconsin is in a region with higher - than - average medical premiums, this geographic factor accounts for only a minor part of the gap between Wisconsin's district costs and the national average.

The costs of these gaps (most commonly associated with low income, limited education, and minority group status) are reflected in higher school dropout rates, lower economic productivity, decreased social mobility, increased need for medical services, and higher rates of incarceration.