Free health care cost 'not known'
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Scotland's free personal care policy was launched without full details of how much it would cost, a watchdog says.
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BY LAW, hospitals provide free emergency care for illegal immigrants. But the costs are bruising, and pending federal regulations could scare away patients.
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Lack of access to routine, quality health care led to as many as 79,000 deaths and $1.8 billion in avoidable medical costs in 2003, according to a new report from a private health care advocacy group.
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The figure, which provides the first glimpse of the true cost of the Medicare drug benefit, could touch off a political uproar.
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The D.C. Department of Health failed to offer a home care option to frail or elderly residents receiving Medicaid, an option that could have saved $34 million in nursing home costs, according to a critical audit released yesterday.
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SYDNEY - Australia&#39;s opposition leader Mark Latham may have dealt the killer blow against his rival John Howard in the run-up to next week&#39;s federal election by offering free medical care to people aged above 75.
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MONDAY, Sept. 13 (HealthDayNews) -- Many Americans are not taking all their medicines because they can't afford them, and most aren't telling their doctors about it, new research shows.
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While the Bush administration's words of support for a high-technology future for health care have been plentiful, the dollars, it seems, are scarce.
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The Romney administration&#39;s original proposal to provide health coverage for the uninsured carried an $800 million annual price tag and would have required
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BALTIMORE - Health care organizations not considering offshore outsourcing are missing out on significant cost savings, but administrators need to be aware of potential risks, including lax handling of data security by some vendors and the effect on employee morale, a health care IT analyst said Tuesday.
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A council is ordered to reimburse the cost of a 90-year-old's free personal care after an ombudsman's inquiry.
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Strong evidence that health insurance costs are slowing the national jobs recovery offers yet another reason to re-examine the policy of tethering health care coverage to employment.
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The cost of providing health care to employees has risen 11.2 percent this year, according to an authoritative national survey reported Thursday.
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While spending on health has tripled over the last 20 years, poor countries are not reaping the benefits, experts warn. BY MICHAEL O BOYLE/The Herald Mexico.
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Consumer-directed health care (CDHC) - high-deductible plans often touted as the answer to spiraling health care costs - is not likely to curb health care costs, and could even worsen health outcomes by reducing patients&#39; receipt of needed preventive care
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Don't assume that your complicated medical bill is correct. Errors on bills for doctors, medical tests or hospitals can result in overcharges that run from a few dollars to tens of thousands of dollars.
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BOSTON -- The average uninsured Massachusetts resident could obtain health care coverage for as little as $175 a month under the state's insurance law, less than half of earlier estimates, officials said Saturday.