- Covaxin To Cost Rs 1,200 For Private Hospitals, Rs 600 For States https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/covaxin-to-cost-rs-1-200-for-private-hospitals-rs-600-for-state-government-says-bharat-biotech-2421175 11 comments india
- New study shows US hospital profits at record highs, charging patients up to 1800% more than cost of services https://www.salon.com/2020/11/22/top-hospitals-charging-patients-up-to-1800-more-for-services-than-they-actually-cost-study/ 50 comments politics
- India: State govts to bear hospital cost for Covid-19 patients https://youtu.be/vzSZzH8BazE 12 comments india
- US hospital treated tourists’ baby with bottle of milk. It cost US$18,000 https://m.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2154017/san-francisco-hospital-treated-korean-tourists-baby 361 comments worldnews
- A visit to a hospital cost $4600+ without them doing anything to me other than talking to me https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/6rhc1a/a_visit_to_a_hospital_cost_4600_without_them/ 691 comments personalfinance
- Gun injuries cost Americans $730 million a year in hospital bills http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-gun-injury-costs-20170322-story.html 264 comments science
- Hospitals warn Trump: Price’s plan to repeal ACA will cost us $165 billion http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/12/hospitals-warn-trump-prices-plan-to-repeal-aca-will-cost-us-165-billion/ 32 comments politics
- Hospital bed-blocking 'costs' NHS England £900m a year http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-35481849 8 comments worldnews
- Hospital bills shown to have wide variations for the same treatment. A $3300 procedure in Arkansas costs $92,000 in California. http://money.cnn.com/2013/05/08/news/economy/hospital-bills/index.html 466 comments politics
- HIPAA rules, outdated tech cost U.S. hospitals $8.3B a year http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9238954/hipaa_rules_outdated_tech_cost_u.s._hospitals_8.3b_a_year 58 comments technology
- The Impact of Profitability of Hospital Admissions on Mortality: "results reveal a statistically significant inverse relationship between changes in profitability and mortality. A $0.19 average reduction in profit per $1.00 of costs led to a 0.010-0.020 percentage-point increase in mortality rates" http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1475-6773.12026/abstract 19 comments science
- I burned my arm - but don't have insurance & can't afford the hospital. When did healthcare costs spiral out of control? http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20105190-503544.html 3 comments reddit.com
- In 2020, the Trump administration passed a bill requiring all hospitals and health insurers to publish their negotiated prices for health services, numbers that are kept secret. This was a massive win for consumers as health services and their costs can be known before services are rendered. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/23/upshot/hospitals-lost-price-transparency-lawsuit.html?referringsource=articleshare 16 comments science
- Coronavirus testing is free, but the hospital trip may set you back thousands. One graphic breaks down potential costs. https://www.businessinsider.com/how-much-does-coronavirus-treatment-cost-cdc-health-insurance-2020-2 33 comments politics
- UK Private maternity rooms in NHS hospitals cost up to £450 a night - Midwives may feel the need to provide extra care to women who have paid for a room, warns union http://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/private-maternity-rooms-nhs-hospitals-cost-up-up-to-450-a-night-a8136761.html 7 comments worldnews
- Hospital industry 'cannot handle rocketing prescription drug costs' http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3834542/hospital-industry-handle-rocketing-prescription-drug-costs.html 4 comments politics
- China plans to beef up security in its hospitals to prevent the deaths of doctors and nurses in attacks by patients' relatives outraged over the cost and quality of care. http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/10/24/china-hospital-attacks/3178633/ 7 comments worldnews
- Hospital Prices No Longer Secret As New Data Reveals Bewildering System, Staggering Cost Differences http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/08/hospital-prices-cost-differences_n_3232678.html?1367985666 14 comments politics
- Inside India's 'No-Frills' Hospitals, Where Heart Surgery Costs Just $800 http://www.businessinsider.com/inside-indias-no-frills-hospitals-where-heart-surgery-costs-just-800-2013-4 255 comments worldnews
- The $10 aspirin; how hospitals use cost accounting to determine costs http://www.barnesville.com/archives/2304-the-10-aspirin.html 11 comments politics
- UK scientists create world’s smallest surgical robot to start a hospital revolution - British-built Versius device will slash costs, improve patient recovery times and help speed up keyhole surgery https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/aug/19/worlds-smallest-surgical-robot-versius-keyhole-hospital-revolution 38 comments technology
- Dire predictions of Obamacare's impact on doctors and hospitals fail to materialize. Instead, they are seeing manageable numbers and plunging costs. http://www.californiahealthline.org/road-to-reform/2014/then-vs-now-how-dire-predictions-about-obamacare-mostly-didnt-come-to-pass?wpisrc=nl_wonk 204 comments politics
- America's Wealthiest Lobby Group: Steven Brill explains the large discrepancy between what hospitals charge and what medical services actually cost http://www.thedailyshow.com/extended-interviews/424076/playlist_tds_extended_steven_brill/424058 18 comments politics
- Keeping Patients Out of Hospitals: A Private-Sector Approach to Health Reform - Hospitalization alone costs $3,000 to $4,000 per day. By aligning incentives, a California practice is thriving, saving money, and keeping people in their homes and community. http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/02/keeping-patients-out-of-hospitals-a-private-sector-approach-to-health-reform/272916/ 3 comments politics
- "It turns out I went to a non-network hospital. My insurance company refused to pay. But if I go to the in-network hospital where there are non- network doctors, it ends up costing more. It's a complete mindfuck" - Bill, Austin TX http://www.prescriptionforchange.org/video.html?bcpid=1767981878&bclid=1551048398&bctid=1561098338 5 comments reddit.com
- Medicare will stop paying the costs of treating infections, falls, objects left in surgical patients and other things that happen in hospitals that could have been prevented. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070818/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/medicare_hospital_errors;_ylt=aphgriy.3lacdtgkyrs1ncqs0nue 9 comments reddit.com
- UK scientists create world’s smallest surgical robot to start a hospital revolution | A team of 100 scientists and engineers have used low-cost technology originally developed for mobile phones and space industries to create the first robotic arm specifically designed to carry out keyhole surgery. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/aug/19/worlds-smallest-surgical-robot-versius-keyhole-hospital-revolution 5 comments worldnews
- More than 80 per cent of newly qualified doctors in Indian state quit after Covid-19 wage cuts | No official reason was given for the wage reduction but hospitals across India are struggling to cover increased Covid-19 running costs https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/80-percent-newly-qualified-doctors-indian-state-quit-covid-19/ 7 comments worldnews
- Care home residents account for nearly half of deaths linked to Covid-19 in Sweden. Some healthcare workers believe an institutional reluctance to admit patients to hospital is costing lives. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-52704836 3 comments worldnews
- Money well spent: A $40 million prison sits in the desert north of Baghdad, empty. A $165 million children's hospital goes unused in the south. A $100 million waste water treatment system in Fallujah has cost three times more than projected, yet sewage still runs through the streets http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100829/ap_on_bi_ge/ml_iraq_us_reconstruction_legacy 3 comments reddit.com
- A new study shows 3% of men who receive a prostate biopsy are hospitalized within a month, half due to an infection. These biopsy-associated infections cost Americans $623 million each year. Sometimes, the risks and costs of screening for a disease outweigh the risks and costs of the disease itself. http://acsh.org/news/2017/04/22/serious-unintended-consequences-prostate-cancer-screens-and-biopsies-11174 183 comments science
- TIL India loses 6.4 per cent of its GDP to health and other costs caused by its lack of sanitation (untimely deaths, productivity lost to ill-health or disease, hospital beds used by patients with sanitation-related disease) [NP] http://scroll.in/article/693367/blood-speaks:-menstrual-taboos-in-nepal-and-bangladesh-put-women%27s-health-at-risk 3 comments india
- Our daughter who has Myasthenia gravis was hospitalized in Scotland for weeks, given very expensive treatment, and open chest surgery... and the cost was exactly zero! http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2009/08/more_tales_of_health_care_woe_from_across_the_pond.php#more?ref=fpblg 21 comments politics
- Foxconn under fire again after requesting premature discharge of brain-damaged factory worker from hospital due to cost http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/10/us-china-foxconn-worker-idusbre8991m620121010 48 comments worldnews
- St. Jude Fights Donors’ Families in Court for Share of Estates: The high-profile children’s hospital uses donor money to engage in long and costly legal battles over wills. Here’s how St. Jude has created one of the most lucrative charitable bequest programs in the country. https://www.propublica.org/article/st.-jude-fights-donors-families-in-court-for-share-of-estates 3 comments law
- Young children whose household received a housing voucher were admitted to the hospital fewer times and incurred lower hospital costs in subsequent two decades, finds new study in JAMA (n=4,604 families). There may be health benefits of helping young children move out of high-poverty neighborhoods. https://www.jhsph.edu/news/news-releases/2019/young-children-receiving-housing-vouchers-had-lower-hospital-spending-into-adulthood.html 718 comments science
- UK hospitals to cut costs by denying surgery to smokers and the obese | Smokers and obese people will increasingly be denied surgery on the NHS as hospital managers cut costs to deal with financial restraints, prominent health service figures have warned https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/sep/03/hospitals-to-cut-costs-by-denying-surgery-to-smokers-and-the-obese 1112 comments worldnews
- Obamacare deserves some credit for the good news about health care "The rate of uninsured Americans is down. The once-inexorable ballooning of health-care costs has slowed. And, the Department of Health and Human Services recently announced , U.S. hospitals are making fewer errors, ..." http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/obamacare-deserves-some-credit-for-the-good-news-about-health-care/2014/12/19/419e44dc-818d-11e4-9f38-95a187e4c1f7_story.html?tid=rssfeed 1142 comments politics
- Health-care costs are a civil rights issue "If the mob told us to hand over a trillion a year in protection money, we’d call the police..But when respected doctors in white coats & local worthies on hospital boards essentially hold America up for the same aggregate sum, we say nothing. We do nothing http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/matt-miller-health-care-costs-are-a-civil-rights-issue/2013/08/28/34e71a32-0fda-11e3-85b6-d27422650fd5_story.html?tid=rssfeed 114 comments politics
- Britain Bedeviled by Binge Drinking - It's reached crisis levels, costing the NHS 2.7 billion pounds a year, including cost of hospital admissions related to booze-fueled violence & longer-term health problems. Liver disease has increased 25% the last decade, causing a record level of deaths. http://news.yahoo.com/britain-bedeviled-binge-drinking-091754244.html 65 comments worldnews