Risk Manag Healthc Policy
January 2025
Department of Research, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, People's Republic of China.
Background: Fragmentation of healthcare services has been a central issue, contributing to escalating medical expenditures and service provision, thereby exacerbating the waste of limited medical resources. In response, China has introduced the Sanming Mode, a medical service integration model designed to address these challenges. This study evaluates the model's impact on medical expenditures, service provision, and resource allocation.
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December 2024
OMS-IV at the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine (WVSOM), 400 Lee St, Lewisburg, WV 24901, USA.
Pharmacy practice in the United States has evolved, transitioning from simple dispensing to complex compounding and medication management. Pharmacists play important roles across many sectors, including clinical care, pharmaceutical industry, insurance companies, and public health. Pharmacists optimize therapy, improve patient outcomes, and reduce healthcare costs.
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January 2025
Department of Neurology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA. Electronic address:
Objectives: The rising cost of anti-seizure medications (ASMs) in the United States (US) is a major concern for patients, healthcare providers, insurance payors, and policymakers. We aim to describe and analyze the spending trends on ASMs in the Medicare Part D (MPD) and Medicaid population in the US.
Methods: A retrospective study was conducted on the databases of MPD and Medicaid Spending by Drug from 2012 to 2022, which was published by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
Lancet Reg Health West Pac
January 2025
School of Public Health, Peking University Health Center, Beijing, China.
This review comprehensively evaluates China's progress in care of end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) by identifying achievements and gaps, reviewing ESKD-related policy initiatives, and proposing policy recommendations. In the past decade, China has made laudable progress in access to ESKD care with narrowed difference between the number of patients needing and receiving kidney replacement therapies (KRT). China has also experienced significant improvements in clinical quality and outcomes of ESKD care.
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September 2024
Manipal College of Nursing, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India.
The provocative advice of health policymakers in endorsing private health insurance, as a critical tool for health reforms, is well-reckoned as a deterrent to mounting healthcare expenditure in the wake of the public health insurance quagmire. However, scholarly evidence has condemned the ineffectiveness of private health insurance in containing out-of-pocket expenditure. In this backdrop, we carried out a nuanced investigation of the coverage pattern of private health insurance policies.
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