Haymarket Media

U.S. health care organizations lost nearly $454 million due to clinical drug diversion in 2018.

Only state naloxone access laws (NALs) allowing direct dispensing of naloxone by pharmacists appear to be useful in cutting fatal overdose rates.

Legalization of recreational cannabis is not associated with changes in health care utilization, as measured by length of stay or health care costs.

Few patients very confused or more worried after reading clinicians’ outpatient visit notes

Prices paid to hospitals for privately insured patients in 2017 averaged 241 percent of what Medicare would have paid, with wide variation in prices among states.

The burden of musculoskeletal (MSK) diseases increased significantly worldwide between 2000 and 2015.

More than 50,000 lives could be saved if all hospitals had an avoidable death rate equivalent to “A” grade hospitals.

Physicians are aware of patients’ difficulty with affording medical care and consider out-of-pocket costs in their decision making.

Proportion of physicians working in practices wholly owned by physicians dropped to 54 percent in 2018

Efforts are needed to ensure all completed large trials are reported.