Cost

Adalimumab-adbm injection is now available at a low wholesale acquisition cost, Boehringer Ingelheim announced in a company press release.

NEW ORLEANS — In this interview from the Renal Physicians Association Annual Meeting, Robert Blaser discusses how recent data on clinical labor costs impacted pay cuts for in-office procedures in 2023.

The economic cost of cancer worldwide from 2020 to 2050 will be $25.2 trillion in international dollars, according to results of a decision analytical modeling study published in JAMA Oncology.

Published results showed patients who received home health care services after total hip arthroplasty had higher costs, increased 30-day readmission rates and similar complication rates compared with patients who discharged under self-care.

Projections showed a decreasing and aging working population along with increasing demand and costs of posterior spinal fusion may challenge the German health care system.

Longer acting anti-VEGF therapies that require fewer injections and clinic visits may provide greater cost-saving benefit for patients with age-related macular degeneration, according to a study in Clinical Ophthalmology.

Compared with nonsurgical treatment, surgical treatment of Medicare patients with single-level lumbar stenosis was associated with lower mortality rates and costs at 2 years, according to published results.

NEW ORLEANS — Cost efficacy of polatuzumab vedotin added to traditional treatments for diffuse large B-cell lymphoma in the front-line requires long-term PFS data, according to a poster presented at ASH Annual Meeting and Exhibition.

Healio spoke with Fumiko Chino, MD, radiation oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and winner of the Healio Patient Voice award, about the cost of cancer care and how it impacts treatment.

The AGA has released a series of evidence-based position statements that support a nationwide colorectal cancer screening approach and aim to eliminate current barriers in the screening process.