Cost Control
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Safe, efficient, and cost-effective orthognathic surgery in the outpatient setting.

29 Sep 2009 There has been a dramatic decline in the number of orthognathic surgery cases over the past 15 to 20 years. This decrease is a result of several compounding factors including decreasing coverage by major medical insurance companies and increasing ... Read more...

Pretraining on Southwestern stations decreases training time and cost for proficiency-based fundamentals of laparoscopic surgery training.

9 Sep 2009 BACKGROUND: We previously reported a proficiency-based Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery (FLS) curriculum that uniformly resulted in passing the technical skills certification criteria. We hypothesized that pretraining using the Southwestern (SW) ... Read more...

The disproportionate effects of the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 on radiologists' private office MRI and CT practices compared with those of other physicians.

30 Aug 2009 PURPOSE: The Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 (DRA) sharply reduced technical component payments for private office magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed tomographic (CT) imaging. Although radiologists have no control over referrals, ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Cost Control'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• The 300-year-old health care solution. 24 Oct 2009
• Safe, efficient, and cost-effective orthognathic surgery in the outpatient setting. 29 Sep 2009
• Building nonhospital-based platforms for ambulatory orthognathic surgery: facility, anesthesia, and price considerations. 29 Sep 2009
• Cutting costs in a clinical setting. 29 Sep 2009
• Follow the money--controlling expenditures by improving care for patients needing costly services. 28 Sep 2009
• Doctors as the key to health care reform. 22 Sep 2009
• Universal picture presents... a counterintuitive argument for insuring all and controlling costs. 12 Sep 2009
• Pretraining on Southwestern stations decreases training time and cost for proficiency-based fundamentals of laparoscopic surgery training. 9 Sep 2009
• Dispelling myths about drug research. 3 Sep 2009
• [Future prognosis. Germany will be this sick in 40 years] Sep 2009
• Systemwide cost control--the missing link in health care reform. 31 Aug 2009
• Health insurers at the table--industry proposals for regulation and reform. 31 Aug 2009
• The disproportionate effects of the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 on radiologists' private office MRI and CT practices compared with those of other physicians. 30 Aug 2009
• Controlling the cost of innovative cancer therapeutics. 30 Aug 2009
• A science of connectedness. 30 Aug 2009
• It's time for a home inspection. One payer's perspective on the patient-centered medical home. 30 Aug 2009
• Put the brakes on accelerating variable rate debt before fiscal year-end. 30 Aug 2009
• Assessing IT expenditures in an uncertain economy. 30 Aug 2009
• No mere cookbook. Evidence-based medicine safe harbor would cut unneeded tests, boost quality. 29 Aug 2009
• Stretching the AIDS dollar. 27 Aug 2009

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Technical information about 'Cost Control'

Definition: The containment, regulation, or restraint of costs. Costs are said to be contained when the value of resources committed to an activity is not considered excessive. This determination is frequently subjective and dependent upon the specific geographic area of the activity being measured. (From Dictionary of Health Services Management, 2d ed)

Descriptor UI: D003363

Alternative terms: Cost Control; Control, Cost; Controls, Cost; Cost Controls; Cost Containment; Containment, Cost; Containments, Cost; Cost Containments;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; organization & administration; standards; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics; methods;

Tree Number: N03.219.151.160;

History Note: 80(79); was see under COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS 1979

Technical Notes: NIM