This helps explain why Vivus is offering eligible patients a free, 14-day trial for Qsymia for a starting dose.
Another government review is aimed at primary care: forcing GPs to charge non-eligible patients, something which is at present discretionary.
When given correctly, it reduces the risk of stroke by 62%, but it is so difficult to use that half of eligible patients are not adequately treated.
Dr. Topol, in an editorial in The New England Journal of Medicine, noted that many eligible patients already don't go on cholesterol drugs because of the cost.
Two years ago Congress, in a provision of the Balanced Budget Act known as Section 4507, in effect, prohibited doctors from treating Medicare-eligible patients outside the Medicare system.
Amid a primary care doctor shortage, eligible patients will need all of the doctors they can get given the health law expands Medicaid coverage to millions more Americans effective Jan. 1, 2014 for participating states.
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As new data have become available, more patients are eligible for the possibility of an attempted VBAC, including patients with two previous cesareans and those with a previous cesarean section who are currently pregnant with twins.
In a research note released Tuesday, Goldman Sachs (nyse: GS - news - people ) biotech analyst May-Kin Ho wrote that positive results in this study could double the number of patients eligible for the therapy to 700, 000 people.
In the trial, patients not eligible for aortic valve surgery will receive TAVR through transapical and transaortic approaches and will be compared with the results of patients in the original PARTNER A trial who received TAVR through the transapical approach.
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Dr. Grana says she discusses the drug with all her patients who are eligible to use it.
It would also mean that roughly 6 million new patients would be eligible to take a statin -- in this case, Crestor (rosuvastatin).
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He thought that 65% of patients would be eligible for the shorter therapy, not 59%, and that the total response in the study would be about 75%.
This would mean all dentists treating NHS patients would be eligible for the allowances, and those with the greatest commitment would be eligible for higher levels of payments.
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Founder Ali Stunt said that 80% of patients in Britain are not eligible for surgery at diagnosis because GPs do not recognise the symptoms, and it takes too long for patients to have a scan.
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By 2013, private Medicare plans that help low income patients who are dually eligible must enter into contracts with state Medicaid agencies.
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The majority of these patients had underlying cardiovascular disease and were not eligible to receive sibutramine under the current labeling.
These types of special needs plans (SNP) cover patients who have severe or disabling chronic conditions, are dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid, and are oftentimes institutionalized.
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The Freedom of Information requests sent to all 171 hospital trusts in England and Wales - of which 133 responded - found that one third were not asking patients whether or not they were resident in the UK and therefore eligible for treatment.
Patients and visitors to the hospital who need to visit for long periods are still eligible for reduced parking rates at the discretion of the ward or clinic sister.
Patients in Massachusetts or on a federal or state-sponsored program, including Medicare, aren't eligible.
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