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Costly Rehab for the Dying Is on the Rise at Nursing Homes, a Study Says

Nursing home residents on the verge of death are increasingly receiving intense levels of rehabilitation therapy in their final weeks and days, raising questions about whether such services are helpfu... read more

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Costly Rehab for the Dying Is on the Rise at Nursing Homes, a Study Says Nursing home residents on the verge of death are increasingly receiving intense levels of rehabilitation therapy in their final ... read more

Study: Housing the Homeless Can Drastically Cut the Government's Health Care Costs

The program uses a “housing first” approach, meaning that people don’t need to be sober or in mental health treatment ... is a cost-saving approach to addressing homelessness," says Sarah Hunter, one ... read more

Government plans to cut number of elderly kept alive on feeding tubes

The government reimburses about ¥100,700 per feeding tube surgery, including the cost for the kit and 45 minutes of ... to travel to a clinic or a hospital from nursing homes for rehab and could be st... read more

A pressing, and depressing, question: How to treat opioid drug-exposed babies

Treating the infants is costly because many stay for weeks and ... paid more than $1 billion for drug withdrawal treatment services nationwide. The figure was based on a recent study using data from 2... read more

Amazon's Recent 'Entry' Into Healthcare Is Naive

These drugs are among the most expensive and provide the lowest economic benefit ... Almost 15% of spending is accounted for at nursing homes, other residential facilities and home health, where wages ... read more

Health-care superusers overload hospital ERs

His heart was in terrible shape, but the 77-year-old former engineer stabilized and even wrote a series of columns for his hometown paper in Maine, musing about death and dying from ... him to seek ou... read more

Medicaid Coverage for Addiction Treatment Varies Dramatically by State

They analyzed coverage for the four tiers of services recognized by the American Society for Addiction ... Although the study says the state is missing intensive outpatient residential treatment progr... read more

Opioid Overdose Crisis May Have Begun Decades Ago

The drugs change, the demographics of who's dying changes, the locations change," Burke said. "You have this paradox of the overall curve is a smooth growth process, but it's composed of all these dif... read more

How much would you pay to live for an extra year?

As doctors looking after patients, we are ethically driven to say that ‘I know it is expensive but my first duty is to help my patient – Dominic Wilkinson Wilkinson says ... nursing that would allow t... read more

Another Hospital Hazard for the Elderly

It’s one of the most common, dangerous and costly complications of hospital stays for ... but experiencing delirium in the I.C.U. is a very strong predictor of dying — there’s a threefold rise in deat... read more

Millennials Hit Hard by Opioids

The spike in overdose deaths is a factor in the rise ... cost a minimum of about $450 a day, Haaz says. Some high-end programs charge $50,000 to $75,000 a month. "Unless a person is gainfully employed ... read more