 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.
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
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| MeSH Number(s) |
N03.219.151.400 N05.300.375
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| 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
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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.
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| 1996 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1997 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1998 | 1 | 3 | 4 | | 1999 | 0 | 3 | 3 | | 2000 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 2001 | 3 | 1 | 4 | | 2003 | 2 | 5 | 7 | | 2004 | 0 | 5 | 5 | | 2005 | 3 | 2 | 5 | | 2006 | 5 | 7 | 12 | | 2007 | 7 | 2 | 9 | | 2008 | 6 | 5 | 11 | | 2009 | 4 | 6 | 10 | | 2010 | 10 | 3 | 13 | | 2011 | 12 | 10 | 22 | | 2012 | 9 | 14 | 23 | | 2013 | 5 | 4 | 9 | | 2014 | 16 | 11 | 27 | | 2015 | 6 | 9 | 15 | | 2016 | 10 | 6 | 16 | | 2017 | 12 | 6 | 18 | | 2018 | 17 | 10 | 27 | | 2019 | 10 | 12 | 22 | | 2020 | 8 | 9 | 17 | | 2021 | 4 | 10 | 14 | | 2022 | 1 | 7 | 8 | | 2023 | 2 | 5 | 7 | | 2024 | 1 | 5 | 6 | | 2025 | 8 | 1 | 9 | | 2026 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Health Care Costs" by people in Profiles.
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Adesoba TP, Skaar JR, Goss A, Han Y, Zhao X, Ding Y, Zhou Y, Harrington J. Economic burden associated with systemic inflammation in patients with HFmrEF/HFpEF. Am Heart J. 2026 Aug; 298:107439.
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Roetker NS, Victores A, Kou C, Bash LD, Ramey DR, Ke X, Bonaca MP, Wetmore JB. Health care resource utilization and costs of major bleeding in patients with and without dialysis-dependent end-stage kidney disease: a retrospective study. Res Pract Thromb Haemost. 2026 Mar; 10(3):103437.
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Padmanabhan P, Tin Y, Nall SK, Al-Tayyib A, Yoder T, Yamkovoy K, Fotso K, Christine PJ, Jurecka C, Raville L, Kline DM, Barocas JA. Health, Costs, and Injection-Related Infections at a Hypothetical Overdose Prevention Center. JAMA Netw Open. 2026 Jan 02; 9(1):e2555965.
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Ojeda LM, Arcila SM, Nunes VA, Duarte CM, Papi M, Jacobs DL, Malgor EA, Malgor RD. The value of vascular surgeons in modern health care systems: A systematic review and meta-analysis. J Vasc Surg. 2026 03; 83(3):933-951.
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Wisniewski AM, El Moheb M, Polavarapu N, Goudarzi A, Norman AV, Noona S, Weber MP, Quader M, Sharma A, Teman NR. Venous Thromboembolism After Coronary Artery Bypass Increases Health Care Costs: A Propensity Score-Matched Analysis. Ann Thorac Surg. 2025 12; 120(6):1165-1173.
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Ellyson AM, Mendoza JA, Liese AD, Tabah A, Bekelman TA, Rudisill AC, Dabelea D, Frongillo EA, Pihoker C, Malik FS, Wright DR. Healthcare and Nonhealthcare Costs: Youth With Diabetes and Food Insecurity. Am J Prev Med. 2026 Mar; 70(3):108028.
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Butler JM, Kamdar N, Brostow DP, Ridberg R, Mozaffarian D, Johnson D, Bowman M, Shyevitch A, Going C, Zhang Y, Napa S, Heusser J, Prater S, Posada S, Nelson R. Veterans Affairs FreshConnectProduceRx: a study protocol for a pragmatic quasi-experimental study assessing health, healthcare costs, and implementation processes of a produce prescription program in VA medical centers. BMC Public Health. 2025 Jul 03; 25(1):2353.
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Bayne D, Cervantes L. Care Navigation in the Management of Urinary Stone Disease: An Opportunity to Improve Care Access While Reducing Treatment Costs. Urology. 2025 Nov; 205:312-318.
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Rewers M. Health economic considerations of screening for early type 1 diabetes. Diabetes Obes Metab. 2025 08; 27 Suppl 6:69-77.
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Wain K, Maiyani M, Carroll NM, Meza R, Greenlee RT, Neslund-Dudas C, Odelberg MR, Oshiro C, Ritzwoller DP. Patterns of Medical Care Cost by Service Type Associated With Lung Cancer Screening. Med Care. 2025 09 01; 63(9):656-665.
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