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Cutting insurance eligibility ups peds hospitalization cost burden

13.07.2018 Kids Health

(HealthDay)—Reducing public insurance (Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program) income eligibility limits would result in large numbers of newly ineligible pediatric hospitalizations, according to a study published online July 9 in Pediatrics. Jessica L. Bettenhausen, M.D., from the University of Missouri-Kansas City, and colleagues conducted a retrospective cohort study using the 2014 State Inpatient Databases for all pediatric (age,

Insurance denials for new hepatitis C drugs remain high nationwide, study suggests

07.06.2018 Health Problems

Highly effective drugs that can cure chronic hepatitis C infection in approximately 95 percent of patients first became available in the U.S. in 2014. But both public and private insurers continue to deny coverage for these costly drugs at high rates nationwide, despite efforts to remove treatment restrictions, according to a new study published in Open Forum Infectious Diseases. The […]

Lack of insurance exposes blind spots in vision care

28.05.2018 Health Problems

Every day, a school bus drops off as many as 45 children at a community eye clinic on Chicago’s South Side. Many of them are referred to the clinic after failing vision screenings at their public schools. Clinicians and students from the Illinois College of Optometry give the children comprehensive eye exams, which feature refraction tests to determine a correct […]