Competition seems to push up quality of care without increasing the cost of care.
The biggest price tag of all is the bottom line on total cost of care.
Or alternatively, we can figure out how do we make the cost of care more effective.
Analysts also expect insurer profits from the plans to be strained by the growing cost of care.
About half of its buyers also get inflation protection to help offset future increases in the cost of care.
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Where does cost of care and its related results enter into the equation?
Those are the things that are going to reduce the cost of care.
If people have to think about the cost of care, they are much more careful in what they choose.
"The government is sneakily shifting the cost of care further and further onto older people and their families, " he insisted.
Importantly, the slowdown in the cost of care is happening in both the overall rate of spending and government spending.
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When applying for Medicaid, income from Social Security and other sources is used to help offset the cost of care.
By the time they make it to the Medicare rolls, their cost of care could wipe out any budgetary savings.
To address the ballooning cost of care, the government has been experimenting with novel payment methods, such as bundled payments or capitation.
Missing today was talk from the Secretary about how to contain the cost of care that often drives the cost of coverage.
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Reining in spending, getting professional financial planning advice and setting up a way to pay for the cost of care would have helped.
These organizations have a true financial incentive to reduce the cost of care, and their direct control of physicians allows them to orchestrate more cost-effective interventions.
The fact that employers paid most of the cost of coverage encouraged workers especially unions to demand expensive, comprehensive coverage that insulated patients from the real cost of care.
Less discretion may also be allowed in relation to how much the scheme can pay out for loss of earnings or the cost of care following an injury.
If the cost of care was more than that amount, the government would be sent a check for the cost overrun depending on the type of care treated.
This will devastate non-for-profit organizations, and inevitably increase the health care costs for everyone because the hospital will have to stay in business by increasing their cost of care.
They were adding up the national total spent on child care, and dividing it by the number of hours women worked to get the per hour cost of care.
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Medicaid beneficiaries have had to bear a share of the cost of care, and some benefits have been cut, such as home housekeeping visits and unlimited rehabilitation services.
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More and more Americans pay their premiums, only to discover that their insurance company has dropped their coverage when they get sick, or won't pay the full cost of care.
Few of us spend the time to actually calculate the cost of care in a facility nor for full time caregivers if our aging parents need help at home.
It is certainly a significant figure, but it means little unless it is compared with the cost of care for people of normal weight and for those who are underweight.
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Thus far, the Affordable Care Act signed into law by President Obama has not yet impacted the cost of care for families covered by the large employer-sponsored plans in the Milliman report.
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Of the ten fastest-growing diseases identified from the AHRQ data and ranked by percentage increase in cost, only one-- hemorrhoids--was caused by an apparent increase in the cost of care per patient.
Of course, government-run health care systems also insulate the patient from the cost of care, but they control costs by imposing a fixed budget, which eventually leads to the rationing of care.
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By creating a financial incentive to increase the gap between cost of care and payments, ACOs may be accused of rationing care, even if payments are tied to quality of care, rather than quantity.
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