Sentences with phrase «paid by patients»

On January 24, 2014, the Government of Canada released legislative proposals relating to the Excise Tax Act (Canada) that would provide an exemption from the GST / HST for hospital parking paid by patients and visitors.

In a move expected to spur controversy, the funding will come from increased charges paid by patients to visit a doctor and for diagnostic procedures and will include AU$ 1 billion from the Health and Hospitals Fund.

List prices don't represent prices paid by insurance companies and pharmacy benefits managers, which in turn don't represent the prices ultimately paid by patients.

The doctor's office or local hospital has a choice to be paid by the patient or by the insurance company.

Coinsurance (the percentage of costs paid by a patient after paying their deductible) was the term least understood by survey respondents.

This means that anything performed by the chiropractor, other than the spinal manipulation, won't be paid by the patient's insurance company.

Not exact matches

To date, private clinics have operated by splitting their funding among government contracts, clients that fall outside medicare and patients paying out of pocket for non-insured services.

Novartis will get paid $ 475,000 only if patients respond to the drug by the end of the first month of therapy.

Glickman: A common pivot we see is around health care: Students want to do something for patients, and as they develop their idea, they realize that it's the insurance companies that pay for this service, so they need to pivot one part of the business by thinking about the needs of who's paying.

While research from the American Medical Association showed that 7.1 percent of all claims paid by insurers in 2013 contained a mistake, patient advocates and other professionals who review medical claims for accuracy put the frequency of billing errors at more like 80 percent or even 90 percent.

That's because under the rules of the exchange, a patient can go up to three months without paying premiums and still not get their coverage formally dropped by an insurers — but the insurer isn't obligated to pay claims incurred during the second and third month if that person isn't paying their premiums for that time, Jackson said.

And on Thursday, Mylan expanded its discount program, offering up to $ 300 off the cost of EpiPen with the use of a special «savings card,» thereby reducing the price for patients paying out - of - pocket by half, the company said.

The amounts paid by insurers, benefit managers, and patients typically differ significantly from list prices.

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

BOSTON A Massachusetts doctor was convicted on Monday of obstructing an investigation into kickbacks paid by the drugmaker Warner Chilcott and of wrongly giving one of its sales representatives access to her patients» information.

There's a general trend in America of emergency care being covered less and less by insurance companies while patients pay...

A Massachusetts doctor was convicted on Monday of obstructing an investigation into kickbacks paid by the drugmaker Warner Chilcott and of wrongly giving one of its sales representatives access to her patients» information.

Already a movement is under way to improve end - of - life care by educating health - care providers to respond better to the needs of dying patients, by creating new care settings or improving existing ones, by seeking changes in methods of paying for appropriate care, by educating the public through conferences, town meetings, television programming, and even Web sites (see www.careproject.net), by providing adequate relief of pain, by withholding or withdrawing treatments that only prolong dying, by keeping company with those who are lonely, and by being a resource of meaning and hope for those tempted to despair.

Same as being one of those wonderful people (paid or unpaid) who spend an hour a week with dementia patients whose family are too utterly distressed by the deterioration of their loved one to face them.

Our player of the season so far?Certainly the most consistent.JACK AND OZIL CONTRACTS - just get them signed up for F *** S SAKE.Jack doesn't want to go anywhere and Ozil will have his choice of big clubs to choose from if allowed to be able to go on a free.How about giving out a statement of our ambitions (yeah right) and show were prepared to pay whatever it takes (up to the point of being ridiculous) to SIGN the best and KEEP the best» These two are the best we have so get them sorted early to send out a message of how serious we intend to be.AUBAMEYANG - So what if he has a contract.So did Sanchez.Offer the right money to Dortmund and the player and he will be ours.What is there to question over this deal?He is a proven goalscorer.We have just lost one.Get the deal done.GIROUD - Get rid of him to Dortmund if they want him either by selling or if it sweetens the deal just loan him till the end of the season.He was a back up when Sanchez was here and will be on the mix of back ups if Auba signs.He has a World Cup squad to fight for just to be considered so needs to be playing every week.We do not need him if Auba signs and would demand better than him if the deal fails to happen.Just get rid.JONNY EVANS - I'm not sure.Agree Kos needs nursing through games and we do not have consistent performers to come in if he is injured or rested mainly due to both Chambers and Holdimg not progressing through as much as we first thought and hoped for.Gooners have always been patient and supportive of the youngsters as they have come through but question marks to the whole coaching staff as to why these two seem to have stalled as much as they have done.Steve Bould - What do you do?You should be ashamed.

And WHY does the hospital get the benefit, when they are essentially being paid twice for one procedure, once by the patient (out of pocket or insurance), and once by the company who wants the foreskin.

Like all parallel medical services, it falls to the patient to figure out who is legitimately skilled and who is not: EXCEPT, most women having babies are in their twenties and early thirties and I personally didn't have the kind of life - experience necessary to question whether or not my government would provide me with sub par care and just assumed that if the government was paying, it must be safe, and the midwifery community capitalizes on this by running advertisements (which OB / GYN are not permitted to do) advertising themselves as being less interventionist, less c - section (no shit, Sherlock, but you'd have to read between the lines to understand why), and better outcomes.

Nurses will be paid by the care and compassion they show towards patients, not just how long they have spent in a hospital, according to the prime minister.

Nick Clegg: Allowing patients to part - pay for their own treatments without being penalised by the NHS is a step forward

Since medical marijuana isn't covered by insurance, patients are forced to pay in cash — cash that's stored in a bank vault at the growing facility.

NHS consultants are offering poor value for money, the National Audit Office (NAO) has found, with pay awards not matched by improved patient care.

Hospital cash: Erie County has been crushed each year by tens of millions of dollars it gives Erie County Medical Center to pay for uninsured and underinsured patients.

The need for services in the area surrounding the Mall is underscored by the fact that this zip code has the highest number of births with late or no prenatal care along with the second - highest percent of births to Medicaid or self - pay patients.

And we've proved in government we stand up for fairness by blocking Tory plans to: run schools for profit, to pay public servants less simply because they work in Wales, and to allow employees to be fired without cause; while in Wales we have opposed Tory plans to make patients pay to use the NHS.

He allegedly bribed a Columbia doctor to send him patients by authorizing state - funded grants that would pay for the doctor's research.

Silver, by contrast, plainly did abuse his office: most notably, to funnel $ 500,000 in state funds to a doctor who then referred patients to Silver's law firm, for which the firm paid the speaker millions.

These patients are left without recourse to pay for care and suffering from a past mistake by a health care provider, the civil suit lawyers argue.

That is of course true inasmuch as New Labour converted NHS trusts into independent businesses (foundation trusts), introduced ISTCs (private treatment centres paid by public funds irrespective of the number of patients treated), gave NHS work to private hospitals and clinics and encouraged NHS patients to choose them, and developed HMO - style commissioning as in the US.

Manhattan - based Weitz & Luxenberg paid Silver more than $ 3 million in referral fees from legal settlements and verdicts won on behalf of patients suffering from mesothelioma, a cancer caused by exposure to asbestos.

This is a hospital paid for by the taxpayer, which Gordon Brown described as an NHS hospital and will serve NHS patients in a matter of weeks.

As the Pew report notes, «Among those states that require local governments to pay for part of the health care costs incurred by Medicaid patients within their jurisdictions, New York's local governments make a particularly large contribution.»

Those patients often face the stark choice of either paying out of pocket for an expensive in - person consultation or waiting for months to be seen by the few specialists working at public hospitals, which receive government funding to help pay for patient care, Komarneni says.

In order to handle all the patients funneled his way by an insurance company, a doctor is obliged to hire numerous staff to handle the paperwork and make sure his invoices are paid.

The new findings, reported in JAMA by a team from the University of Michigan Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation, confirm directly what other studies have predicted or implied: That Medicaid expansion can help relieve hospitals» burden of caring for patients who have little or no means to pay.

More than half of this economic cost (56 %, $ 10.8 billion) was on accessing diabetes treatment, including medication and hospital stays — and one half of these costs were out - of - pocket (paid for by the patients), putting a huge financial burden on people with diabetes.

Patients like it and so do health organizations, but electronic communications in clinical care will likely not be widely adopted by primary care physicians unless physician workloads are reduced or they are paid for the time they spend phoning and emailing patients, both during and after officPatients like it and so do health organizations, but electronic communications in clinical care will likely not be widely adopted by primary care physicians unless physician workloads are reduced or they are paid for the time they spend phoning and emailing patients, both during and after officpatients, both during and after office hours.

Railway surgeons were paid by the railroads and evaluated patients filing injury claims against the rail systems, so patients and even fellow physicians suspected their medical judgment might serve their employers» interests.

Eventually she hopes to establish a permanent clinic where paying patients will get such extraordinary treatment, not to mention custom - designed shoes, that they'll happily sit side by side with homeless patients.

A new study could add to the argument over equal pay in the ranks of medicine: Older patients treated by female doctors tend to do better than those treated by males.

«With reference pricing, the employer or insurer will make a contribution towards paying for the prescription drug chosen by the patient, and the patient will pay the remainder,» said lead author James C. Robinson, director of the Berkeley Center for Health Technology at the School of Public Health.

Problems experienced by patients and families include inadequate or absent communication with case managers, lack of follow - up care, and being forced to pay out - of - pocket for necessary treatments and medication.

Published today in Clinical Medicine, the peer review journal for the Royal College of Physicians, the researchers studied the amount and type of alcohol drunk by 404 liver patients, and also asked patients how much they paid for alcohol.

For example, patients receiving VA care were less likely to receive hospice care for the minimum recommended three days compared with those in Medicare or in other contracted care paid for by VA..

When they compared the timing and provision of hospice care between patients treated by the VA and those who received care paid for by Medicare, they discovered differences that could not be explained by cancer types.

He suggests the only options by which for - profit hospitals generate the excess revenues to pay investors a dividend are by «cherry - picking,» minimizing the patients who can't pay while maximizing the profitable ones, and simply to charge more.