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There are many reasons why U.S. healthcare costs are higher than other OECD countries: Administrative costs. About 25% of U.S. healthcare costs relate to administrative costs (e.g., billing and payment, as opposed to direct provision of services, supplies and medicine) versus 10-15% in other countries.
The push for higher pay among direct care workers who work in rehabilitation centers, nursing homes and behavioral health facilities is backed by the Maine Center for Economic Policy, which has ...
These were two of the hundreds of maternity wards to close across the U.S. in recent years—more than 217 since 2011, according to the health care consulting firm Chartis, leaving many women in ...
As high-deductible health plans rise across the country, with many individuals having deductibles of $2500 or more, their ability to pay for costly procedures diminishes, and hospitals end up covering the cost of patients care. Many health systems are putting in place price transparency initiatives and payments plans for their patients so that ...
Americans spend more out of pocket on health care than people in most comparable countries, the health policy nonprofit KFF found. In the United Kingdom, for example, out-of-pocket health care ...
The market prices of items required for care increase and care work continues to be non-paid in what is known as the Baumol effect, described by William Baumol and William Bowen as a relative increase in the price of services without substitutes – for example, the costs of child care and sending children to college. People are living longer ...
Roughly 150 health care workers will rally and picket Wednesday outside the Sutter Center for Psychiatry in Sacramento, protesting wages and staffing levels at the hospital run by Sutter Health.
Unnecessary health care (overutilization, overuse, or overtreatment) is health care provided with a higher volume or cost than is appropriate. [1] In the United States, where health care costs are the highest as a percentage of GDP, overuse was the predominant factor in its expense, accounting for about a third of its health care spending ($750 billion out of $2.6 trillion) in 2012.