Sentences with phrase «on cost of health care»

«White - coat» hypertension in patients with newly diagnosed hypertension: evaluation of prevalence by ambulatory monitoring and impact on cost of health care.

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The Trump administration's moves on Obamacare last week — including the decision to stop paying subsidies meant to lower low - income enrollees» out - of - pocket medical costs to insurance companies — have dominated health care headlines.

That brings me, at long last, to the second long document I read this week: the May 24 cost estimate by the Congressional Budget Office and Joint Committee on Taxation of H.R. 1628, the American Health Care Act of 2017.

Could the wildly increasing costs of health care be one reason smaller businesses are less willing to bring on new employees?

Here's the critical fact: The AHCA increases those credits on a tight formula of inflation plus one percentage point, no matter how fast the actual cost of health care insurance rises.

On Wednesday, President Obama outlined a handful of proposals such as health - care exchanges, tax credits, and a public option — all of which could provide welcome relief to businesses coping with skyrocketing health insurance costs.

High rates of unemployment have a budgetary cost to governments, from direct spending on employment insurance to a rise in health care costs as chronic unemployment diminishes mental and physical health.

The magazine ranked 24 retirement destinations around the world on a dozen criteria, including cost of living, climate, health care and entertainment.

AH: The business world is waking up to the high cost of sleep deprivation on productivity, creativity, health care, and ultimately the bottom line.

Working longer can mean lower costs on the health - care side, according to McClanahan, as many individuals are able to take advantage of company health plans.

In researching for his upcoming book on fulfilling work, Schulich's Burke found that Johnson & Johnson saw at least a $ 4 return on every dollar it spent on employee wellness initiatives in terms of lower health - care costs, less absenteeism and higher productivity.

«I'd also have everybody kind of get focused on a similar mission and drive a culture to improve health care costs by lowering them, drive greater levels of effectiveness overall and making sure that we are driving a great deal of consumer satisfaction.»

The Healthcare Reform Law, including The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and The Healthcare and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, could have a material adverse effect on Humana's results of operations, including restricting revenue, enrollment and premium growth in certain products and market segments, restricting the company's ability to expand into new markets, increasing the company's medical and operating costs by, among other things, requiring a minimum benefit ratio on insured products, lowering the company's Medicare payment rates and increasing the company's expenses associated with a non-deductible health insurance industry fee and other assessments; the company's financial position, including the company's ability to maintain the value of its goodwill; and the company's cash flows.

Speaking of health care, many retirees on the move seek to relocate due to health - care reasons, more from a quality standpoint than an overall cost perspective.

The cost of health care has been on an upward trajectory for years.

The high cost of health care is having an impact on whether consumers access treatment at all.

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The high cost of health care in the US is nothing compared to the markup on some prescription medicines.

Small business owners take a much harder look at the entire cost of an employee, which often comprises life insurance, health care, savings plans, taxes, and so on.

Preparing the ground: First came an announcement, at the company's regular monthly meeting, that the cost of health care was on the way up and that management was looking for solutions.

According to the Health Care Cost Institute, about 43 % of all spending by individuals with employer - sponsored insurance in 2011 was shoppable, meaning that it was spent on medical services whose prices could be significantly lowered without compromising quality.

Value - based care is an emerging payment model that focuses on measuring a patient's health outcome against the cost of delivering the outcome.

Several of the services will focus on population health management, including a predictive system that analyzes patient health records and insurance claims to anticipate patients» future needs (and health care providers» costs).

With the rising cost of health care, and the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, every corporation in America is jumping on the employee wellness bandwacare, and the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, every corporation in America is jumping on the employee wellness bandwaCare Act, every corporation in America is jumping on the employee wellness bandwagon.

«The ballooning costs of health care act as a hungry tapeworm on the American economy,» Berkshire Hathaway (brk - b) chairman and CEO Warren Buffett said in a statement.

Every health care company seeks to scale the best technology and develop profitable ways to cover the massive cost of research and development, investors are looking for actionable intelligence on who's breaking through, and patients are hungry for affordable and effective care.

Participants were asked to rank their level of anxiety (or lack thereof) on subjects such as their country's current political leadership, economy, health care, cost of living, and their perceived level of threat from terrorism and military hostilities.

The initial focus of the independent company will be on technology that will provide their U.S. employees and their families with simplified and high - quality health care at accessible costs, the companies said.

Globalization has tightened the cost screws on U.S. employers, health care costs have taken a bite out of paychecks, a kind of new norm of the 1 % to 3 % wage increase has taken hold in the country, unions have been in decline.

And it's no surprise to many health experts that the company is focusing a lot of its attention on employer - sponsored health care, and in particular on the challenge of driving down costs without reducing the quality of care.

Though the company covers 100 percent of health care costs, employees are not offered perks found at many companies, such as on - site child care, tuition reimbursement, and a 401 (k) match.

But it has failed to recover in recent years because of a series of policies that increase the burden on small - business owners — higher taxes, increases to health - care costs, more costly regulations, and now the minimum wage increase proposal

Yet one might feel more lenient toward Canada's provinces after considering that they shoulder the brunt of what is expected to become one of the heaviest burdens on government balance sheets across the industrialized world: health care costs.

Lastly, the rankings factored health care costs based on three data points: (1) the average health insurance premium, sourced from KFF.org; (2) portion of health costs covered by Medicare, sourced from CMS.gov; and (3) state rankings on senior health outcomes from AmericasHealthRankings.org.

Faced with rising health care costs, nearly three - quarters of Americans say they rely on Social Security for out - of - pocket health care costs, according to a Nationwide Financial Retirement Institute consumer survey.

However, given the ageing of the population and the accompanying pressures on health care costs, it is important that such discussions begin much earlier and involve the public, rather than being held behind closed doors.

Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: our ability to achieve our financial, strategic and operational plans or initiatives; our ability to predict and manage medical costs and price effectively and develop and maintain good relationships with physicians, hospitals and other health care providers; the impact of modifications to our operations and processes; our ability to identify potential strategic acquisitions or transactions and realize the expected benefits of such transactions, including with respect to the Merger; the substantial level of government regulation over our business and the potential effects of new laws or regulations or changes in existing laws or regulations; the outcome of litigation, regulatory audits, investigations, actions and / or guaranty fund assessments; uncertainties surrounding participation in government - sponsored programs such as Medicare; the effectiveness and security of our information technology and other business systems; unfavorable industry, economic or political conditions, including foreign currency movements; acts of war, terrorism, natural disasters or pandemics; our ability to obtain shareholder or regulatory approvals required for the Merger or the requirement to accept conditions that could reduce the anticipated benefits of the Merger as a condition to obtaining regulatory approvals; a longer time than anticipated to consummate the proposed Merger; problems regarding the successful integration of the businesses of Express Scripts and Cigna; unexpected costs regarding the proposed Merger; diversion of management's attention from ongoing business operations and opportunities during the pendency of the Merger; potential litigation associated with the proposed Merger; the ability to retain key personnel; the availability of financing, including relating to the proposed Merger; effects on the businesses as a result of uncertainty surrounding the proposed Merger; as well as more specific risks and uncertainties discussed in our most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.cigna.com as well as on Express Scripts» most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.express-scripts.com.

Why did Charlie Munger recently say: «The current US health care system runs out of control on the cost side and leads to behavior that's not just regrettable, but evil.»

«The ballooning costs of health care act as a hungry tapeworm on the American economy,» Mr. Buffett said in the statement.

The vast majority of spending growth over the next decade is the result of rising costs for health care, Social Security, and interest on the debt.

David Dodge, a former Deputy Minister of Finance, Deputy Minister of Health, and Governor of the Bank of Canada, has recently released a study on the growing costs of health care in Canada in the coming decades and the impact they could have on all governments — federal and proviHealth, and Governor of the Bank of Canada, has recently released a study on the growing costs of health care in Canada in the coming decades and the impact they could have on all governments — federal and provihealth care in Canada in the coming decades and the impact they could have on all governments — federal and provincial.

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA): Also known as the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the act included a variety of health - related provisions that extended health insurance coverage to many uninsured Americans, implemented measures designed to reduce health care costs, imposed requirements on health providers and insurance companies, and levied a broad range of taxes to help pay for expanded healthcCare Act (PPACA): Also known as the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the act included a variety of health - related provisions that extended health insurance coverage to many uninsured Americans, implemented measures designed to reduce health care costs, imposed requirements on health providers and insurance companies, and levied a broad range of taxes to help pay for expanded healthcCare Act (ACA), the act included a variety of health - related provisions that extended health insurance coverage to many uninsured Americans, implemented measures designed to reduce health care costs, imposed requirements on health providers and insurance companies, and levied a broad range of taxes to help pay for expanded healthccare costs, imposed requirements on health providers and insurance companies, and levied a broad range of taxes to help pay for expanded healthcare.

The implications for digital and intellectual property issues are particularly important, with chapters on e-commerce and telecommunications services, an extension of patent protections for pharmaceutical drugs could raise health care costs by millions of dollars, and protections for hundreds of geographical indications may restrict Canadian producers of common cheeses, wines, and meats.

The insurer Cigna will spend about $ 52 billion to acquire the nation's biggest pharmacy benefit manager, Express Scripts, the latest in a string of proposed tie - ups as health care's bill payers attempt to get a grip on rising costs.

Michael Geist, writing in the Toronto Star, declared that «a TPP based on the US proposals would signal a near - complete surrender of a made - in - Canada approach to intellectual property, leading to risks of lost Internet access, expansive border seizures, increased health care costs, and criminal liability for non-commercial infringement.»

Cigna will spend about $ 52 billion to acquire the nation's biggest pharmacy benefit manager, Express Scripts, the latest in a string of proposed tie - ups as health care's bill payers attempt to get a grip on rising costs.

That may come as a surprise amid hand - wringing about the spiraling cost of health care, but two new studies, one from research company IMS Health and one from pharmacy benefit manager Express Scripts, show that the amount of money Americans spend on prescription drugs went down in 2012 for the first time in dehealth care, but two new studies, one from research company IMS Health and one from pharmacy benefit manager Express Scripts, show that the amount of money Americans spend on prescription drugs went down in 2012 for the first time in deHealth and one from pharmacy benefit manager Express Scripts, show that the amount of money Americans spend on prescription drugs went down in 2012 for the first time in decades.

With consumers on the hook for more of their health care, they need to be educated about how to navigate medical costs - both before and after a medical event.

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