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Hospital cost savings: resembling business
Health Care Management Review, 1986Hospitals, like other employers, offer health care benefits to their employees. Cost savings can be realized when hospitals offer packages that resemble those provided by business employers. Business packages explain variance in cost savings more than employee characteristics do.
N L, Davis, T, Choi
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Cost-saving implant training aids
The Journal of Prosthetic Dentistry, 1998This article describes a simple step-by-step procedure that uses inexpensive materials to enable those who wish to learn procedures used in the construction of a screw-type implant overdenture to practice these procedures before they use expensive precious metal components. The use of this procedure will result in considerable savings in training costs
M, O'Doherty, F, Houston, D, Byrne
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Technology Management : the New International Language, 2002
It is pointed out that, due to international competition, US businesses are under considerable pressure to reduce operating costs. Many large corporations have introduced cost savings programs. However, there is a danger that these programs can encourage cost shifting rather than cost savings.
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It is pointed out that, due to international competition, US businesses are under considerable pressure to reduce operating costs. Many large corporations have introduced cost savings programs. However, there is a danger that these programs can encourage cost shifting rather than cost savings.
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Radiology Benefit Managers: Cost Saving or Cost Shifting?
Journal of the American College of Radiology, 2011Radiology benefit managers (RBMs) are widely used by private payers to manage the utilization of imaging services through prior authorization, and they have been proposed for use in the Medicare program. The authors created a framework for evaluating the impact of key parameters on the ability of RBMs to lower costs and used decision-analytic modeling ...
David W, Lee +2 more
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Medical savings accounts: opportunities for cost savings?
International Transactions in Operational Research, 2006AbstractInterest in medical savings accounts (MSAs) as a potential tool to reduce healthcare costs has been widespread. A small number of countries have either implemented or run pilot programs of MSAs, and vigorous policy debates have taken place in several other countries about the potential merits of introducing MSAs as a method of paying for health
Gregory S. Zaric, Jeffrey S. Hoch
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Oxazepam Cost-Savings Conversion
Hospital Pharmacy, 2001After Mylan Pharmaceuticals dramatically increased the cost of generic lorazepam, the projected impact on the 1998 VA Northern California Health Care System (VANCHCS) pharmaceutical budget was significant. Requests for voluntary conversion from lorazepam to less-expensive alternative benzodiazepines had no significant impact on prescribing practices ...
Cherie L. Dillon +2 more
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