Health Care Costs

"Health Care Costs" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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The actual costs of providing services related to the delivery of health care, including the costs of procedures, therapies, and medications. It is differentiated from HEALTH EXPENDITURES, which refers to the amount of money paid for the services, and from fees, which refers to the amount charged, regardless of cost.

Descriptor ID	D017048
MeSH Number(s)	N03.219.151.400 N05.300.375
Concept/Terms	Health Care Costs Health Care Costs Cost, Health Care Costs, Health Care Health Care Cost Health Costs Cost, Health Costs, Health Health Cost Healthcare Costs Cost, Healthcare Costs, Healthcare Healthcare Cost Medical Care Costs Medical Care Costs Costs, Medical Care Cost, Medical Care Medical Care Cost Treatment Costs Treatment Costs Cost, Treatment Costs, Treatment Treatment Cost

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Health Care Costs".

Health Care [N]
Health Care Economics and Organizations [N03]
Economics [N03.219]
Costs and Cost Analysis [N03.219.151]
Health Care Costs [N03.219.151.400]
Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation [N05]
Delivery of Health Care [N05.300]
Health Care Costs [N05.300.375]

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Health Care Costs".

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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Health Care Costs" by people in this website by year, and whether "Health Care Costs" was a major or minor topic of these publications.

Bar chart showing 336 publications over 31 distinct years, with a maximum of 21 publications in 2010

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1995	0	2	2
1996	1	3	4
1997	3	1	4
1998	1	2	3
1999	3	5	8
2000	1	2	3
2001	1	6	7
2002	3	5	8
2003	5	4	9
2004	7	8	15
2005	6	3	9
2006	5	6	11
2007	6	5	11
2008	7	3	10
2009	6	8	14
2010	7	14	21
2011	9	10	19
2012	12	7	19
2013	6	10	16
2014	5	4	9
2015	9	8	17
2016	13	7	20
2017	8	8	16
2018	11	6	17
2019	9	11	20
2020	6	11	17
2021	4	6	10
2022	2	4	6
2023	4	1	5
2024	0	5	5
2025	1	0	1

Below are the most recent publications written about "Health Care Costs" by people in Profiles.

Farjoud Kouhanjani M, Shafie'ei M, Hashemi B, Farazdaghi M, Asadi-Pooya AA. "Clinical outcomes and healthcare costs in status epilepticus: A multivariable analysis from a tertiary center in a resource-limited setting". Epilepsy Behav. 2025 Mar; 164:110259.

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Oliver BJ, Melmed GY, Siegel CA, Kennedy AM, Testaverde J, Oberai R, Alandra Weaver S, Almario C. A Hybrid Markov-SPC Approach to Assess Cost Differences in Urgent Care Utilization Using Patient-Reported Data in Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Perm J. 2024 09 16; 28(3):234-244.

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King JB, Sakhuja S, Derington CG, Kolm P, Herrick JS, Berchie RO, Shen J, Greene T, Tajeu GS, Howard G, Levitan EB, Muntner P, Safford MM, Ying J, Weintraub WS, Moran AE, Bress AP, Bellows BK. Annual Cost of Implementing Intensive Systolic Blood Pressure Goals in the United States. J Am Heart Assoc. 2024 Sep 17; 13(18):e034515.

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Su AW, Saboe M, Condliffe S, Hazen K, Atanda A, Rogers KJ. Adolescent anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction: a decade of rising surgical cost. Am J Manag Care. 2024 Jun 01; 30(6):e178-e183.

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Merdler I, Wallace R, Hill AP, Chitturi KR, Medranda GA, Reddy P, Zhang C, Ozturk ST, Sawant V, Weintraub WS, Lopez K, Ben-Dor I, Waksman R, Hashim HD, Case BC. From chest pain to coronary functional testing: Clinical and economic impact of coronary microvascular dysfunction. Cardiovasc Revasc Med. 2024 Sep; 66:56-60.

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Tajeu GS, Ruiz-Negr?n N, Moran AE, Zhang Z, Kolm P, Weintraub WS, Bress AP, Bellows BK. Cost of Cardiovascular Disease Event and Cardiovascular Disease Treatment-Related Complication Hospitalizations in the United States. Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes. 2024 03; 17(3):e009999.

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Weintraub WS, Bhatt DL, Zhang Z, Dolman S, Boden WE, Bress AP, Bellows BK, Derington CG, Philip S, Steg G, Miller M, Brinton EA, Jacobson TA, Tardif JC, Ballantyne CM, Kolm P. Cost-Effectiveness of Icosapent Ethyl in REDUCE-IT USA: Results From Patients Randomized in the United States. J Am Heart Assoc. 2024 Jan 02; 13(1):e032413.

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Wolk CB, Wilkinson E, Livesey C, Oslin DW, Connolly KR, Smith-McLallen A, Press MJ. Impact of the collaborative care model on medical spending. Am J Manag Care. 2023 Oct; 29(10):499-502.

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Bensimhon D, Weintraub WS, Peacock WF, Alexy T, McLean D, Haas D, Deering KL, Millar SJ, Goodwin MM, Mohr JF. Reduced heart?failure-related healthcare costs with Furoscix versus in-hospital intravenous diuresis in heart failure?patients: the FREEDOM-HF study. Future Cardiol. 2023 06; 19(8):385-396.

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Lin F, Wilson K, Kwong WJ, Abraham JA. Understanding the Effect of Osteoarthritis on Surgical Treatment Patterns, Healthcare Resource Utilization, and Costs Among Patients With Tenosynovial Giant Cell Tumors. J Am Acad Orthop Surg Glob Res Rev. 2023 05 01; 7(5).

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