CDC Updates Guidelines for Covid-19 Safety
CDC updates guidelines for close contacts; emphasizes importance of mask usage, social distancing and hand washing. www.CDC.gov
PRAISE FOR EVIDENCE-BASED TO VALUE-BASED MEDICINE
Evidence-Based to Value-Based Medicine is the Center for Value-Based Medicine text with a foreword by Thomas Scully, former Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. [...]
27 Million!
Cost-Utility Analysis: 27,000,000 Possible Input Variants. Gary C. Brown, MD, MBA, Melissa M. Brown, MD, MN, MBA, Peter Kertes, MD. Evidence-Based Ophthalmology 2012;12:52-7. Comparative [...]
National Health Expenditure: 5.0% in 1960 to 17.9% in 2016
Actuaries from the CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) noted that healthcare spending in the United States in 1960 was $27.5 billion, 5.0% of the $543 billion Gross Domestic Product [...]
National Health Expenditure Projections 2017-2026 – CMS
The health share of GDP is expected to rise from 17.9 percent in 2016 to 19.7 percent by 2026. … per year) and Medicaid (5.8 percent per year) are both substantial contributors to the rate [...]
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