Sentences with phrase «total health care costs»

Maintained total health care cost increases to less than 5 % per year over the past 5 years.

From that date, funding would be capped at the rate of medical inflation, a pace slower than the rise in total health care costs because it considers only prices, not how many visits or procedures folks are consuming.

Better health care for the nonaged actually increases total health care costs because more people reach the expensive years of old age — not that there's anything wrong with that.

In Ontario, 1 % of patients, 80 % of whom are over age 65, account for 34 % of total health care costs.

This Dutch cross-sectional study of 8,904 people assessed how the number of diseases an individual has impacts on their total health care cost, and which combinations of diseases have the greater impact on cost.

Total health care costs were calculated for a three - month period using reference prices from the Dutch manual for pharmaco - economic health care evaluations 2010, adjusting for inflation as required and using healthy individuals as the reference point.

At the end of the six - month trial, the total health care costs of using a CGM was $ 11,032, compared to $ 7,236 for manual testing.

Chronic disease accounts for 7 of every 10 deaths in the United States and more than 75 % of total health care costs.

Extravagant claims abound in the literature that 3 - 4 glasses of milk a day will save 20 % of the total health care costs of osteoporosis.