Insurers Prodded to Cover Early Addiction Services
Insurers prodded to cover early addiction services
Filed under: drug abuse treatment cost analysis program
Early screening – to catch drug dependence early — and recovery services – to keep patients clean after treatment — are also more cost-effective, but some insurers don't cover that, either. Last week the state health officials who oversee the network …
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Our opinion: That's a lot of money, but there's more to the story
Filed under: drug abuse treatment cost analysis program
Jordan Rau, writing for NPR, noted oncologists and ophthalmologists topped the list because their work involves expensive drugs, and in 2012, Medicare paid doctors for the market cost of drugs they used plus 6 percent. About one in four of the 344 …
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Disciplined doc made millions from Medicare
Filed under: drug abuse treatment cost analysis program
That was revealed this past week when the federal government for the first time released data on services provided by — and money paid to — 880,000 health professionals in 2012 who took care of patients under the Medicare Part B program, the Chicago …
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