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Projected Health Benefits and Health Care Savings from the United States National Hepatitis C Elimination Initiative
The national hepatitis C elimination initiative would substantially reduce HCV-related morbidity and mortality and would reduce healthcare spending at 10 years and beyond.
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Medicare Coverage of Weight Loss Drugs Could Significantly Reduce Costs
USC Schaeffer white paper finds that increasing access to obesity treatments would help save lives and reduce healthcare costs.
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Benefits of Medicare Coverage for Weight Loss Drugs
The cumulative social benefits from Medicare coverage for new obesity treatments over the next 10 years would reach almost $1 trillion, or roughly $100 billion per year.
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Obesity in the U.S.: Increasing Access to Treatment
Given the serious health and financial ramifications of obesity, policymakers should consider the value of increased investment in obesity treatment efforts.
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American Life in Realtime: a Benchmark Registry of Health Data for Equitable Precision Health
Applying artificial intelligence and machine learning to person-generated health data allows unprecedented assessment of associations between everyday life and health outcomes.
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Telling Doctors Their Patients Fatally Overdosed Reduces Opioid Prescriptions Up to One Year Later
Those clinicians who received the letter wrote 7% fewer prescriptions than clinicians who hadn’t received the notification.
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Hidden Physician Financial Conflicts of Interest in Dialysis
Nephrologists’ ownership of dialysis facilities doesn’t affect outcomes, but why is it so secret?
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Shame Won’t Solve America’s Obesity Crisis: How Congress Can Help
If saving lives is the objective, then logic, clinical evidence and compassion dictate that Medicare should pay for preventing and treating obesity, starting now.
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New Dialysis Studies Inform Delivery of Care, Ways to Improve Patient Outcomes
Researchers analyzed the effects of clinic ownership and dialysis timing on patient outcomes.
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Rates of Eye Care and Diabetic Eye Disease among Insured Patients with Newly Diagnosed Type 2 Diabetes
The majority of diabetic patients do not receive adequate eye care within the 5 years after initial diabetes diagnosis despite having insurance.
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