High out-of-pocket costs reduce participation in cardiac rehabilitation
Despite the success cardiac rehabilitation has shown at reducing heart-related deaths and hospital readmissions, higher out-of-pocket costs may prevent patients ...
Tag: Managed Care
California’s $25 health care hourly wage relies on federal boost, state worker exemption
California's nation-leading $25 minimum wage for health workers will rely on a significant boost in federal funding and exempt thousands ...
Promising better, cheaper care, Kaiser Permanente’s national expansion faces wide skepticism
As regulators review Kaiser Permanente's proposed acquisition of a respected health system based in Pennsylvania, health care experts are still ...
Formulary restrictions may increase the risk of stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a major risk factor for stroke, and for decades the anticoagulant warfarin was the standard treatment ...
