Sentences with phrase «to reduce health care costs»

The overall goals are to determine whether home visiting programs improve birth outcomes and reduce health care costs in the child's first year.

This efficiency also helps to dramatically reduce health care costs for patients and insurers.

These included efforts to help reduce health care costs while documenting improved health outcomes.

These include reduced health care costs due to a breastfed baby's receiving optimal nutrition.

The extra carbon in the soil also increases food nutrients, which could greatly reduce health care costs.

Most importantly, it is a preventative service that can reduce health care costs while improving care, and that benefits everyone.

Obamacare may also increase productivity through reduced health care costs - or it may not.

The state's top insurance and financial regulator on Tuesday announced an effort to provide technical assistance to local governments that are aimed at reducing health care costs through municipal corporations.

Preventing people from getting the virus would save millions of lives as well as greatly reduce health care costs associated with treatment.

Additionally, the comparatively rapid closure of the open wounds also reduced health care costs by an average of $ 1,153 per patient and $ 650 to the burn and wound program.»

This program of research may impact policy decisions in support of physiologic birth — known to dramatically reduce health care costs and improve maternal - infant outcomes.

They also favored reducing health care costs, with 60 percent of Protestants and 53 percent of Catholics viewing it as a top issue.

Breastfeeding reduces health care costs and the cost of caring for sick babies.

[47] New York's 2003 ban on smoking in public places was passed and signed into law under the Pataki administration in the hopes that it would promote better health in New York and reduce health care cost overtime.

The problem is likely to worsen as economic pressures to reduce health care costs lead to even more complex surgeries in an ambulatory setting, the authors said.

With hospital stays costing roughly $ 2,000 per day, according to Becker's Hospital CFO Report, and ICUs costing twice that or more, the finding could help reduce health care costs by millions of dollars per year, the researchers said.

«There is no nationwide federal policy banning indoor smoking, even though such a policy might improve public health and potentially reduce health care costs,» said Sourabh Aggarwal, M.D., resident physician, Department of Internal Medicine at Western Michigan University School of Medicine, and lead investigator of the study.

He tells Ornstein: «This is an urgent time to find ways to reduce health care costs without harming people at all — and it's clearly possible.

However, the study author has warned against making assumptions about the cost of coaching relative to other forms of care, saying that the study found that in most cases it did not reduce health care costs and, in some cases, could increase them.

In explaining his view, the congressman said in a statement: «I am very supportive of many provisions in the bill, particularly the efforts to provide strong consumer protections and reduced health care costs for small businesses, but I remain concerned about the effect this package will have back at home.»

The origins of the state funding came in 2011, when the Cuomo administration pushed through changes to reduce health care costs in New York by $ 17 billion.

In January, three more corporate behemoths — Amazon (amzn), JPMorgan Chase (jpm), and Berkshire Hathaway (brk - a)-- said they were forming a joint venture aimed at reducing health care costs and improving outcomes for their combined 1 million or so employees.

The state's own study found a single payer system — with no premiums, deductibles, or co-pays — would reduce health care costs by $ 28 billion annually by 2019.

This program of research may impact policy decisions in support of physiologic birth - known to dramatically reduce health care costs and improve maternal - infant outcomes.

According to researchers at the University of Oxford, if Americans switched to vegetarianism en masse, we could reduce our health care costs by up to $ 223.6 billion each year by 2050, as vegetarians typically have lower rates of Type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and certain forms of cancer.

The formal evaluation by HHS found that diabetes prevention programs «reduce health care costs and help prevent diabetes,» said Burwell.

OTTAWA — The federal Liberal government says its new regulations to phase out power plants fired by coal and natural gas will cost more than $ 2.2 billion, but potentially save the country billions more in reduced health care costs.

Done properly, employee health programs can indeed be a powerful tool in reducing health care costs — a necessity for employers struggling to keep up with the rising medical trend, as all benefits managers and brokers know.

In the workplace this translates into a positive impact for the bottom line: less absenteeism and presenteeism, reduced health care costs, improved productivity, creativity and innovation.

BATAVIA — Gov. Edgar and the insurance industry are closing their eyes and ears to a very simple way to reduce health care costs.

Some businesses have wellness programs to help employees get healthy and reduce health care costs.

Gov. Edgar and the insurance industry are closing their eyes and ears to a very simple way to reduce health care costs.

De Blasio is trying a carrot an stick approach to get public employees to reduce health care costs.

Boston Road is one of the first projects to use the New York State Medicaid Redesign Team (MRT) capital funding to employ housing as a strategy for reducing health care costs.

Studies show that access to paid sick days promote safer and healthier work environments by reducing the spread if illness and workplace injuries and it reduces health care costs and supports children and families by helping the parents fulfill their care - giving responsibilities.»

«This legislation will result in a healthier workplace, improve child and family wellbeing and reduce health care costs.

«Republicans believe all Americans should have access to quality health care and that we must find ways to reduce health care costs.

President Obama says he wants to reduce health care costs.

This, he says, could alleviate the burden of staph skin infections, prevent invasive complications and reduce health care costs.

Economic pressures to reduce health care costs have resulted in a 300 percent increase in ambulatory surgeries over the past decade.

They also estimated that if adopted nationwide, HIE might reduce health care costs by $ 19 million annually for these types of repeat imaging tests in the ED.

«Some stroke treatments proven to reduce health care costs.»

Reduced health care costs could also help relieve financial strain on other critical government programs at both the state and national level.