Health care insurers including Medicare, Medicaid and major private insurers have not done enough to combat the opioid epidemic, suggests a study led by researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The Bloomberg School researchers examined major insurers’ …
Even a relatively mild Zika outbreak in the United States could cost more than $183 million in medical costs and productivity losses, while a more severe one could result in $1.2 billion or more in medical costs and productivity losses,suggests …
A crackdown on Florida’s “pill mills” – clinics dispensing large quantities of prescription painkillers often for cash-only and without proper medical examinations – appears to have dramatically reduced the number of overdose deaths in the state from these drugs and …
