Several research groups [ 6, 10, 14, 15] have identified reductions in health service utilization and overall costs, whereas other authors reported evidence for increased utilization and costs [ 11] or inconsistent evidence for a reduction in service utilization [ 12, 16] or costs [ 17].
This results in the situation where only the sick end up enrolling in health insurance with its consequences on increased utilization and cost [12].
Nevertheless, increased utilization and rising costs have led to concerns regarding the appropriateness of using 'premium', more expensive implant technologies in Medicare patients.
Such cost variation occurs for multiple reasons, including patient non-compliance, increased utilization of high-cost and fragmented care (i.e. emergency room visits, inpatient admissions, repetitive/redundant treatments, etc)., and lack of improvement in a person's health status, amongst others.
This will mean more time per woman and reduced waiting time for the services resulting to increased utilization, reduction of unit costs and improved efficiency.
The increased utilization also reduces the cost.
This increased utilization is secondary to lower costs and greater awareness that 3D printing can enhance patient care [2 4].
Consumers' decisions to undergo DTC-GT could impact providers and the medical community in many ways, including placing an increased burden on the HCP in terms of time and costs and increased utilization of unnecessary medical services.
Although a strong correlation has been found between depression and pain, it is not clear if depression causes pain [ 8], but it is suggested that pain could be a symptom of depression [ 5, 9, 21] Moreover, depression and painful physical symptoms increase costs by increased utilization of healthcare services [ 5, 22- 24].
Our premiums are driven by the rising cost and increased utilization of medical services".
