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Expanded access or compassionate use is the use of an unapproved drug or medical device under special forms of investigational new drug applications (IND) or IDE application for devices, outside of a clinical trial, by people with serious or life-threatening conditions who do not meet the enrollment criteria for the clinical trial in progress.
Medicaid, the joint federal-state health care program for low-income people and people with disabilities, covers 1 in 5 people living in the U.S. and accounts for nearly $1 out of every $5 spent ...
The Affordable Care Act’s chief aim is to extend coverage to people without health insurance. One of the 2010 law’s primary means to achieve that goal is expanding Medicaid eligibility to more people near the poverty level.
As initially passed, the ACA was designed to provide universal health care in the U.S.: those with employer-sponsored health insurance would keep their plans, those with middle-income and lacking employer-sponsored health insurance could purchase subsidized insurance via newly established health insurance marketplaces, and those with low-income would be covered by the expansion of Medicaid.
Spectrum Health Systems announced in February that its mobile treatment service program is the first in the state to provide all three medications for opioid use disorder — methadone, suboxone ...
Health insurance coverage is provided by several public and private sources in the United States. Analyzing these statistics is challenging due to multiple survey methods [13] and persons with multiple sources of insurance, such as those with coverage under both an employer plan and Medicaid.
The definition of a public-assistance household has not been updated in a very long time, according to Darcy Milburn, director of Social Security and health-care policy at The Arc, a nonprofit ...
Even with the expanded access to preventative care services and other healthcare related services, the insured still experience rationing due to increasing premiums and rising healthcare costs. From 2005 to 2015, the average annual employer-sponsored health insurance premiums for family coverage increased 61%.