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Do patients need additional coverage for chronic ailments? Insights from hospital data

Journal of Education and Health Promotion
BACKGROUND: Eliminating financial barriers and improving healthcare accessibility pertain to be key elements of the United Nation’s sustainable development goals.
Aswin Sugunan, K Rajasekharan Pillai, Brayal D’souza, Anice George   +3 more
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Physician Reimbursement in Medicare Advantage Compared With Traditional Medicare and Commercial Health Insurance

JAMA Internal Medicine, 2017
Nearly one-third of Medicare beneficiaries are enrolled in a Medicare Advantage (MA) plan, yet little is known about the prices that MA plans pay for physician services. Medicare Advantage insurers typically also sell commercial plans, and the extent to which MA physician reimbursement reflects traditional Medicare (TM) rates vs negotiated commercial ...
Erin, Trish, Paul, Ginsburg, Laura, Gascue, Geoffrey, Joyce   +3 more
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Do drugs approved via expedited approval pathways have therapeutic advantages? A systematic review and meta‐analysis

British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.
Regulators use expedited approval pathways to speed market approval and patient access to promising new drugs. However, there is uncertainty about whether these pathways are successful in approving drugs with significant therapeutic advantages. This systematic review aims to examine the safety, effectiveness and cost‐effectiveness of drugs approved via
Ashleigh Hooimeyer, Eliza J. McEwin, Zhicheng Wang, Joel Lexchin, Barbara Mintzes   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Should annual cost of the drug inform reimbursement decisions? A perspective from China’s healthcare security system

Frontiers in Public Health
BackgroundAn increasing number of countries worldwide, including China, have adopted Health Technology Assessment (HTA) and pharmacoeconomic (PE) principles, either comprehensively or partially, to inform drug reimbursement decisions.
Xiaochen Peng, Xiaochen Peng, Haiyin Wang, Hui Sun, Xiaoxiao Qin, Zhe Huang   +5 more
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Assessing the Effects of the New Cooperative Medical Scheme on Alleviating the Health Payment-Induced Poverty in Shaanxi Province, China.

PLoS ONE, 2016
BackgroundDisease has become one of the key causes of falling into poverty in rural China. The poor households are even more likely to suffer. The New Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS) has been implemented to provide rural residents financial protection ...
Xiaowei Yang, Jianmin Gao, Zhongliang Zhou, Jue Yan, Sha Lai, Yongjian Xu, Gang Chen   +6 more
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Impact of secured prescription implementation on ambulatory pregabalin use in France: A regional assessment in the French Nouvelle‐Aquitaine

British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.
Abstract Aim The French authorities mandated the use of secure prescriptions for pregabalin on May 2021. This study aimed to evaluate the impact of this measure on pregabalin use and misuse in Nouvelle‐Aquitaine, a southwestern French region with around six million inhabitants.
Maika Munech‐Herran, Véronique Moysan, Bruno Lescarret, Clément Mathieu, Antoine Pariente, Nicolas Rousselot   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Transforming Brain Health With Neurotechnology Convergence (Part II): Intelligent Neurointervention Systems for Neurological Disorders

Brain Health, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Neurological disorders represent a critical domain within global health, necessitating advanced interventions to address complex pathologies such as tumors, functional disorders, and cerebrovascular diseases. Despite the proven benefits of early intervention, current treatment paradigms face significant challenges: (1) limited precision in ...
Qing Ye, Fei Peng, Chao Pan, Ping Zhang, Xuewei Xie, Zixiao Li, Yingxin Tang, Danyang Chen, Yuanwei Li, Jiawen Wu, Zao Han, Qing Dai, Quansheng Gu, Jizong Zhao, Zhouping Tang   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sociodemographic Factors Influencing Vietnamese Patient Satisfaction with Healthcare Services and Some Meaningful Empirical Thresholds

Iranian Journal of Public Health, 2017
Background: This short communication report some new results obtained from a medical survey among 900 Vietnamese patients in 2015, looking into possibly influential sociodemographic factors as far as patient satisfaction is concerned, to establish ...
Quan-Hoang VUONG
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Exploring patient and provider perspectives on health insurance effectiveness in cameroon: a qualitative study

Health Economics Review
Background The global push to achieve universal health coverage (UHC) by 2030 has gained widespread attention, with many countries, including low- and middle-income nations like Cameroon, striving to implement reforms. However, financial, infrastructural,
Adanze Nge Cynthia, Bülent Kılıç
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Journal of Evidence-Based Integrative Medicine, 2018
In the article, “Insurance Reimbursement for Complementary Healthcare Services,” we reported that the likelihood of reimbursement for complementary health care services in New Hampshire was significantly lower as compared with services of primary care ...
James M. Whedon DC, MS
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