Health Care Cost

People with long COVID were more likely to report unmet health care needs in the last year due to challenges like cost and access to care, according to research published in JAMA Network Open.

Members of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions conducted a hearing on May 10 to investigate insulin affordability and what caused prices to increase during the past decade.

A statewide, all-payer globally budgeted system implemented in Maryland in 2014 did not impact utilization of transcatheter aortic valve replacement or reduce 30-day readmissions after TAVR compared with New Jersey, data show.

The American College of Rheumatology has endorsed a newly introduced bill in Congress that would automatically adjust the Medicare physician fee schedule based on inflation.

A bill proposed in the U.S Senate would limit out-of-pocket insulin costs for Americans with diabetes who have commercial health insurance, according to a press release.

In this episode, host Shikha Jain, MD, speaks with Jorge García, PharmD, about the economic benefits of biosimilars, the unique perspective pharmacists bring to cancer care costs and more.

Susan Weiner, MS, RDN, CDCES, FADCES, talks with Donna Ryan, RN, RDN, MPH, CDCES, FADCES, about changes to standard practices of health plans that could improve diabetes care and health of people with diabetes.

Healio spoke with Yasha Modi, MD, to discuss the importance of increasing awareness of geographic atrophy.

Kerin Adelson, MD, has been named chief quality and value officer at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

Sepsis survivors from ICU and non-ICU settings treated with rehabilitation within 6 months had greater survival rates within 3 years following hospitalization, according to results published in Annals of the American Thoracic Society.