Sentence examples for high cost services from inspiring English sources

Walton added that "the problem in the current system is that mental health trusts and finance directors are forced to prioritise high cost services for the minority of patients who end up in secondary care but it costs relatively little to meet the needs of the majority of patients in primary care and the community and prevent an awful lot of pain and suffering".

The same dynamic exists for high cost services such as scans and surgeries.

Conflict of interest ridden, high cost services with uncompetitive performance or no verifiable performance history are the norm.

Left out of the financial mainstream, they rely on alternative financial services like check cashers, payday lenders and other high cost services.

Cancer service in Malaysia as described in this study has much to learn yet from other high cost services such as dialysis.

In the discourse of the contributory regime's informants, there strongly emerge norms limiting access to medical care - minimum contributory's period for high cost services or suspension of insurance coverage for lack of payment.

The global financial crisis and subsequent constraint on spending has led to a shift in focus to more efficient models of care which can reduce high cost service use such as emergency hospital admissions.

In fact, episodes in the counties in the lowest quartile of the payment ratio variable had somewhat greater percentages of higher cost services.

On the other hand, those with poor or missing health insurance tend to minimize use of preventive and ambulatory day-to-day resources, and excessively use publicly available, higher cost services, such as emergency rooms at time of stress.

This will be achieved by establishment of an integrated Commonwealth home support program by July 1, 2015 that seeks to maximize preventative and restorative care to optimize outcomes for care recipients and avoid unnecessary progression to more intensive, higher cost services.

These services are a vital component of the health system, caring for the elderly, people with disabilities and the chronically ill, and helping patients avoid higher cost service use, like acute-care emergency room visits, lengthier inpatient stays or premature nursing home admission.