Sentences with phrase «of healthcare dollars»

If this number is extrapolated to the general population of stroke sufferers, simply implementing endovascular therapy at stroke centers could save billions of healthcare dollars each year.

Now consider that literally TENS OF THOUSANDS of American newborns are readmitted to the hospital each year, costing HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS of healthcare dollars because breastfeeding doubles the risk of newborn hospital readmission.

The ONLY reason we have doubt and «controversy» in America is the steady flow of hundreds of millions of healthcare dollars into the pockets of the John Boehners, etc. who spread the anti-health message.

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This in turn means that billions of dollars of «unnecessary and avoidable spending» takes place, as people are not following their healthcare plans.

The technology could potentially make it faster, cheaper, and simpler for healthcare providers to accurately predict a patient's cardiovascular risk, which could save millions of lives and billions of dollars.

You can take advantage of this by enrolling in a high - deductible healthcare plan where you're eligible to use a Health Savings Account — an investment vehicle where you can park thousands of pre-tax dollars every year ($ 3,350 for individuals and $ 6,750 for families).

But the Accenture report suggests — and, I think smartly — that the biggest returns on investment for healthcare AI are likely to come from areas where the density (and dollar value) of deals isn't that substantial right now.

«But I think customers are choosing to spend their disposable dollars in different ways, and that's part of the reason why we are not more optimistic about the lower gas prices,» she added, noting that consumers are spending more on cars, healthcare, electronics and home improvement, leaving little upside for Macy's.

Sixty years later, we have a sprawling and bloated system, where the extra employer layer adds billions of dollars of cost and empowers employers to make intrusive decisions about their employees» healthcare.

The CWA said on Saturday that Verizon has not budged from its original proposal which they have said would increase workers» healthcare costs by thousands of dollars, eliminate job security and remove any restrictions on the company's right to contract out or offshore union jobs.

On average, a broker who connects a small business with a healthcare provider collects between 4 and 8 percent of the company's health premiums — fees that translate to several hundred dollars or more per employee per year, and keep coming in for as long as the business customer continues to maintain coverage.

«Shoppers are spending more of their disposable dollars on categories we don't sell, like cars, healthcare, electronics, and home improvement,» Hoguet said in a call with investors.

According to the survey, the top concerns of small business owners over the next year are the effectiveness of government leaders, commodities prices, healthcare costs, recovery of consumer spending and the strength of the U.S. dollar.

Mark Fitzgibbon, the boss of private health insurer Nib Holdings, can only dream about the immense amount of cost - saving data being unlocked via a spate of multibillion - dollar mergers in the US healthcare sector.

The company will use the funding to extend its offerings to retail - akin industries such as healthcare and hospitality, further penetrate the billion - dollar small retailer market in India and enhance its product portfolio to meet the requirements of a broad range of retailers worldwide.

US healthcare costs in 2016 averaged $ 10,345 per person, for a total of $ 3.35 trillion dollars, a full 18 percent of the entire economy, twice as much as in other industrialized countries.

Health insurers have a multibillion - dollar opportunity to lead a digital transformation of healthcare that will mean lower costs and better care for patients.

We've identified 34 digital health companies on our Tech IPO pipeline list, alongside 6 digital health companies valued above a billion dollars (Zocdoc, Proteus Digital Health, 23andMe, NantHealth, Oscar, and GuaHao), many of which will need to go to public markets for further funding if late - stage investors continue to move further away from private markets as they did in Q4 ’15 (this may be a trend that's particularly pronounced in healthcare, where companies have much longer time horizons for returns).

«The Liberals need to immediately scrap their policy of funneling scarce healthcare and education dollars into private sector projects and start using the Pacific Carbon Trust to lower the carbon footprint of schools and hospitals,» said Dix.

Health Product Marketer: The healthcare product industry is worth billions of dollars.

I did enjoy you saying zero federal dollars would be spent on the military as though it were a trump card rather than something that would make me even more in favor of universal healthcare

Although lactation professionals like Melissa Bartick, MD have continued to write papers modeling the purported savings of both lives and healthcare dollars, with the exception of extremely premature babies neither she nor anyone else can point to any lives -LSB-...]

Giving breast milk to a baby can save billions of dollars spent on infant formula and healthcare costs arising from lack of breastfeeding.

You ma» dam is why and how Obama has milked us Americans out of our healthcare system dollars, penny by penny, pitocin by pitocin.

Former Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr. and his son, Pedro G., were indicted yet again for allegedly bilking hundreds of thousands of dollars from their healthcare network, Soundview, which received both federal and state funding.

This week also saw closing arguments in the corruption trial of Pedro Espada, Jr., the former state senate majority leader accused of embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars from a publicly funded healthcare system in order to finance his lavish personal lifestyle.

Most notably, Poloncarz described the tens of millions of dollars of unbudgeted healthcare payments that must be made to the Erie County Medical Center Corporation.

He even voted to protect the government healthcare plan for Members of Congress that is funded with your tax dollars.

«Taking Care of Our Caretakers,» details the 274,548 home and healthcare workers who would see an increase in gross wages by a total of $ 2.287 billion, with a net gain in wages of $ 1.372 billion dollars.

The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) today released the following joint statement from House Republican Leader John Boehner, House Republican Whip Eric Cantor, and NRCC Chairman Pete Sessions regarding the the special election in New York's 23rd Congressional District: «As the House stands on the cusp of the forthcoming vote on a trillion - dollar healthcare reform measure, it is vital that we unify behind a candidate that will support reining in massive government spending and work with Republicans in Congress to restore fiscal sanity and propose thoughtful measures to get our nation's economy on the right track.

I don't think fructose is the cause of obesity, but I do think it is the thing that takes you from obesity to metabolic syndrome, and that's where the healthcare dollars go — diabetes, hypertension and cardiovascular disease.

And you know, we spend between one and two trillion dollars in this country on healthcare, yet we invest less than 2 percent of what we spend on healthcare and health research — no industry would operate that way.

Dr. Ibáñez explains, «the savings in healthcare costs will run into millions; a per - patient outlay of less than two euros (or less than three dollars) will over the years save thousands.»

Spread of infectious diseases in healthcare settings adds billions of dollars to healthcare costs in the U.S. Infectious diseases like influenza, antibiotic - resistant bacteria, and C. difficile can spread when infection control measures are insufficient or if recommendations are not followed.

Raising the age at which we begin cervical screening would be one of the first steps in integrating cervical screening and HPV vaccination, an important step in using healthcare dollars more effectively,» says Wheeler.

In addition to the toll in human lives, sepsis costs healthcare systems billions of dollars each year — much of the costs attributed to expenses incurred during weeks or months - long stays in intensive care units.

The annual healthcare costs of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and diabetes account to over 1.6 trillion dollars.

Glucocorticoid - resistant asthma patients also account for the majority of the multibillion - dollar healthcare cost of the disease worldwide.

This approach can save you thousands of dollars each year by limiting unnecessary medical spending and focusing on treating the cause not just the symptoms for optimal results and the best in preventative healthcare.

So, it's no exaggeration that the Psoriasis Program could easily save you thousands of dollars in healthcare costs not only in your lifetime - but quite possibly each year with the way things are going.

We would stop the healthcare crisis in its tracks and save billions of dollars on medical expenses.

Estimates suggest that in the U.S., Alzheimer's disease (AD) affects 12 percent of people over age 65 and nearly 50 percent of those over 85, with predictions for this to include 16 million people by 2050.1 National healthcare costs associated with AD are expected to surpass one trillion dollars by mid - century.1

The obesity epidemic continues to grow and is costing our healthcare system millions of dollars a year.

He startles a plain vanilla church congregation into silence, and rips the insurance lobby: «The reason the healthcare industry is so profitable is they get 24 cents of every dollar.»

Hundreds of teachers sit in so - called rubber rooms in New York City, playing cards, video games, whatever, collecting their salaries, maintaining their healthcare benefits and adding dollars to their defined benefit pensions.

Here, too, the potential cost savings are significant: Researchers in Canada found that for every dollar spent on timely treatment of mental health problems and addictions, $ 7 is saved in healthcare costs, and $ 30 is saved in lost productivity and societal costs (Ontario Ministry of Health and Long - Term Care, 2009).

HealthView Services» 2017 Retirement Health Care Costs Data Report found that a 65 - year - old couple that retired in 2017 — and is covered by Medicare Parts B, D and a supplemental insurance policy — can expect total healthcare premiums and out - of - pocket expenses to total an average of $ 404,253 in today's dollars.

Maintaining a healthy weight, blood pressure and cholesterol levels can save tens of thousands of dollars in healthcare costs over your lifetime and reduce the risk of going into debt to cover out - of - pocket costs.

If we make the switch and rely on renewable sources of energy like the sun, we can save billions of dollars by avoiding not only the costs of replacing these plants, but also the increasingly higher costs of climate change in areas like healthcare expenses and damage from extreme weather.

The tax would generate hundreds of billions of dollars in revenue annually for critical needs such as healthcare, education, job creation and the international fight against HIV / AIDS and climate change.