Sentences with phrase «potential health cost»

Policy - makers are in the process of evaluating the economic value of antibiotics to the livestock industry versus the potential health cost of increasing antimicrobial resistance.

Not exact matches

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.

No matter how the federal health care debate turns out, developing more reliable health care guides for consumers has the potential improve care quality, saving lives and eliminating billions of dollars in needless costs.

As part of its pitch, the company explains to potential customers that the so - called «net present value» of a $ 7,000 saddle is actually less than the all - in cost of using an ill - fitting one — expenses that include frequent vet bills, replacement saddles and even the costs associated with the premature death of the animal due to saddle - related health problems.

Foss says effectively planning potential retiree health costs requires starting early to investigate the ins and outs of Medicare Parts A, B and D, as well as supplemental or Medigap insurance.

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.

Focusing exclusively on high - potential products that align with health system priorities and patient needs, EXCITE's pre-market approach identifies opportunities for improvement while products are still in development, resulting in better technologies for patients and lower system costs, while also streamlining the subsequent adoption process.

Department of Corrections officials justify the soy - based meals as a cost - cutting measure, but increased health care costs and pending liability for not supplying life - sustaining meals have the potential to make the soy - based meals very expensive for the state of Illinois.»

But they've also been the subject of criticism by environmentalists because of questions surrounding their cost and effectiveness, as well as the potential health and safety risks associated with them.

In a recent survey, financial advisors noted that health - care costs, market fluctuations and potential lifestyle expenses caused clients the most stress about running out of money.

«Incumbent businesses in countless industries, from finance to energy to health care to food, are peeling back the layers on this budding technology, seeing the potential to trim costs, share and secure information more efficiently, and unleash new products at unprecedented speed,» declared Fortune in a cover story titled «Blockchain Mania!»

are on the rise due to potential consumer health concerns, regulatory limits on weighting agent usage levels and costs.

The opportunities for Australia are immense not just in terms of the potential benefit to the Australian economy through future jobs and export earners, but also because Australians will benefit from better and more cost - effective health products and services as a flow on effect from a thriving domestic MTP industry.

Someday the insurance companies will realize what a treasure postpartum doula care is, in keeping mom and baby together to preserve the breastfeeding relationship, helping to avoid health care costs long term as well as speeding up healing and providing emotional support to help with any potential postpartum mood disorders.

Views are particularly polarised in the United States, with interventions and costs of hospital births escalating and midwives involved with home births being denied the ability to be lead professionals in hospital, with admitting and discharge privileges.5 Although several Canadian medical societies6 7 and the American Public Health Association8 have adopted policies promoting or acknowledging the viability of home births, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists continues to oppose it.9 Studies on home birth have been criticised if they have been too small to accurately assess perinatal mortality, unable to distinguish planned from unplanned home births accurately, or retrospective with the potential of bias from selective reporting.

The Surgeon General has chosen to focus on breastfeeding because of its importance in promoting women's and children's health, and its potential for significant health care cost savings through preventive action.

Breastfeeding has a positive impact on the infant, mother, parents and the health - care system; it also reduces the costs to society of raising healthy children who reach their full potential.

Implications of breastfeeding are important for the infant, mother, both parents, the health - care system and the costs to society of raising healthy children who reach their full potential.28

I'd love to see my government take a stand and realize that they either pay now or pay later — in, among other ways, rising health care costs on obesity and diet - related illness, and in unrealized potential from kids who don't succeed in school because they are hungry and / or undernourished.

Despite the evidence that investing in breastfeeding is one of the most cost effective public health interventions available, insufficient priority is being given to this, which put infants and children at risk of reaching their full potential...»

The little ray of sunshine, according to the study, is that it is possible to make plastics that don't contaminate food — on a cost - effective, commercial scale — eliminating the «potential health risk posed by most currently available plastic products.»

In a meeting at the Labor Temple on Third Street, both candidates said they wanted to reach an agreement, while also saying they supported efforts to contain health care insurance costs, including kick - starting the work of a six - year - old city committee that has been sporadically studying potential consolidation of health insurance coverage among the city's unionized workers.

The potential savings in lost workdays and health care costs for protracted hospital stays, surgery and other avoidable procedures is well worth the investment of a few hours of an employee's time.»

With the state budget process being more difficult in 2017 because of a revenue shortfall, the potential end of Obamacare could force state officials to scramble even more to cover health care costs for thousands.

Parents» major concerns often included misunderstandings about medical care, potential suffering and cost related to child organ donation, according to this month's C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health at the University of Michigan.

«As two organizations committed to the health and safety of workers, it makes sense for us to address the potential consequences of workforce marijuana use on employers, ranging from the risk and associated cost of adverse events to the possible loss of productivity,» said AAOHN President Jeannie Tomlinson.

At a global cost of trillions of dollars annually, it carries a steep price tag, not to mention, the potential safety, environmental and health hazards it poses.

«Evidence - based interventions that prevent and reduce tobacco use and reduce clinical complications of COPD may result in potential decreased COPD - attributable costs,» said Earl Ford, MD, MPH, Division of Population Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

However, the high cost of DAA regimens and competing public health priorities may limit the potential impact of new HCV therapies.»

«For the first time, our analyses provide state - specific costs for COPD, which provide state public health practitioners with estimates of the economic burden of COPD within their borders and illustrates the potential medical and absenteeism costs savings to states through implementing state level programs that are designed to prevent the onset of COPD,» says Earl Ford, MD, researcher with the Division of Population Healthhealth practitioners with estimates of the economic burden of COPD within their borders and illustrates the potential medical and absenteeism costs savings to states through implementing state level programs that are designed to prevent the onset of COPD,» says Earl Ford, MD, researcher with the Division of Population HealthHealth, CDC.

The authors of this new research paper analysed data and models from the USEPA's updated global non-CO2 GHG mitigation assessment to investigate the potential for GHG reductions from agricultural emissions from seven regions globally, offsetting costs against social benefit of GHG mitigation (e.g. human health, flood risk and energy costs).

This is known to cause premature death, and policies that aim to reduce our consumption of fossil fuels often cite the potential health benefits — and related cost savings — linked to reducing air pollution.

He said: «Given that a year's course of low - dose MTX costs around # 30, the potential to repurpose MTX could provide thousands of patients with a much needed treatment option and also generate substantial savings for health care systems.

«There's a great need in cancer patients to be able to quickly and easily assess if a particular treatment is working in order to switch to another if it's not, thus avoiding wasted time, potential side effects and cost,» says Kala Visvanathan, M.D., M.H.S., professor of epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, professor of oncology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and director of the Clinical Cancer Genetics Program at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center.

The report of the Commission on Creating a Global Health Risk Framework for the Future highlights infectious diseases as one of the biggest risks facing humankind and estimates the annual expected cost from potential pandemics at more than # 40bn.

Brain Health Registry aims to reduce the cost of patient recruitment for clinical trials by building a large online pool of potential candidates.

This approach has the potential to identify individualized optimal therapy whilst providing cost and time effective options to relevant stakeholders for better health - care delivery.

Cost estimates for legislative proposals to address chronic health conditions like obesity use a time period that is too short to capture the potential economic value of preventing related diseases such as diabetes and heart disease.

If we take into consideration the prevalence of women's health - related conditions, the potential for reliance and side effects of drugs and the high cost of not treating this condition effectively, it is critical to examine the best natural alternatives over the standard options provided by conventional medicine.You do have natural options; let's have a look at what we can offer the woman who has PMS.

This trend represents a potential resurgence of corporate health promotion programs as a result of rising health care costs experienced by both small and large companies and corporations.

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, 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, Health and Long - Term Care, 2009).

Risks and uncertainties include without limitation the effect of competitive and economic factors, and the Company's reaction to those factors, on consumer and business buying decisions with respect to the Company's products; continued competitive pressures in the marketplace; the ability of the Company to deliver to the marketplace and stimulate customer demand for new programs, products, and technological innovations on a timely basis; the effect that product introductions and transitions, changes in product pricing or mix, and / or increases in component costs could have on the Company's gross margin; the inventory risk associated with the Company's need to order or commit to order product components in advance of customer orders; the continued availability on acceptable terms, or at all, of certain components and services essential to the Company's business currently obtained by the Company from sole or limited sources; the effect that the Company's dependency on manufacturing and logistics services provided by third parties may have on the quality, quantity or cost of products manufactured or services rendered; risks associated with the Company's international operations; the Company's reliance on third - party intellectual property and digital content; the potential impact of a finding that the Company has infringed on the intellectual property rights of others; the Company's dependency on the performance of distributors, carriers and other resellers of the Company's products; the effect that product and service quality problems could have on the Company's sales and operating profits; the continued service and availability of key executives and employees; war, terrorism, public health issues, natural disasters, and other circumstances that could disrupt supply, delivery, or demand of products; and unfavorable results of other legal proceedings.

I doubt our health insurance would have allowed it, and even if it had I would have been extremely nervous about the potential out of pocket costs if I had had to be transported to the hospital in an emergency, whereas that was all covered on the NHS.

This really changes the system and it has the potential to lower health care costs.

«A net $ 40,000 income in retirement allows for a buffer for potential health care costs as well as infrequent but regular vehicle replacement and home maintenance,» says Gray.

Potential business expenses for you might include travel; a portion of your rent or mortgage interest, home insurance, and utilities if you're working at home; office supplies; health insurance; intangible drilling costs (really!)

For instance, an educated populace may be more healthy overall (or more economically utilize health services), which will reduce potential healthcare costs.

By monitoring your pet's health and addressing potential problems before they become serious, you can significantly reduce the cost of medical care for pets.

Prevention of illness is the key to keeping costs down later and helping us identify potential health conditions early, before they become potentially life - threatening emergency situations.

I hope these stories will make people think about the potential cost of their pet's physical and behavioral health, and make some plans for how to meet such costs, so they never have to have their hearts broken for lack of funds.