 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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| 1995 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 1996 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1997 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 1998 | 1 | 3 | 4 | | 1999 | 0 | 3 | 3 | | 2000 | 4 | 1 | 5 | | 2001 | 3 | 1 | 4 | | 2003 | 2 | 5 | 7 | | 2004 | 0 | 4 | 4 | | 2005 | 3 | 4 | 7 | | 2006 | 4 | 6 | 10 | | 2007 | 4 | 2 | 6 | | 2008 | 7 | 5 | 12 | | 2009 | 4 | 5 | 9 | | 2010 | 8 | 2 | 10 | | 2011 | 7 | 9 | 16 | | 2012 | 7 | 13 | 20 | | 2013 | 5 | 5 | 10 | | 2014 | 14 | 11 | 25 | | 2015 | 6 | 9 | 15 | | 2016 | 10 | 4 | 14 | | 2017 | 12 | 7 | 19 | | 2018 | 20 | 11 | 31 | | 2019 | 10 | 10 | 20 | | 2020 | 8 | 7 | 15 | | 2021 | 4 | 8 | 12 | | 2022 | 1 | 6 | 7 | | 2023 | 1 | 4 | 5 | | 2024 | 1 | 5 | 6 | | 2025 | 5 | 1 | 6 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Health Care Costs" by people in Profiles.
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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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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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Housten AJ, Chang SH, Rice HE, L'Hotta AJ, Kim EH, Drake BF, Buss JL, Politi MC. Costs of non-metastatic prostate cancer treatment among privately insured men in the United States. PLoS One. 2025; 20(5):e0324902.
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Sanders J, Greenhawt M, Oppenheimer J, Anagnostou A, Shaker MS. Value-based care in allergy-immunology: Beyond the quality-adjusted life year. Allergy Asthma Proc. 2025 May 01; 46(3):165-167.
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Valentino PL, Perkins JD, Taylor SA, Feldman AG, Banc-Husu AM, Fishman DS, Bucuvalas JC, Gonzalez-Peralta RP, Mazariegos G, Mullapudi B, Ng VL, Sundaram SS, Yazigi NA, Kennedy J, Soltys K. Procedure Costs Associated With Management of Biliary Strictures in Pediatric Liver Transplant Recipients in the Society of Pediatric Liver Transplantation (SPLIT) Registry. Pediatr Transplant. 2025 May; 29(3):e70009.
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Herzel B, Batavia N, Gavaza P, Phan T, Samones E, Ruha AM, Furmaga J, Hoyte C, Wolk BJ. The Cost of Antivenom: A Cost Minimization Study using the North American Snakebite Registry. J Med Toxicol. 2025 Jul; 21(3):320-326.
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Gong CL, Okoro CC, Wan R, Lopez C, Ngo NH, Gold JI. Budget Impact Analysis of Integrative Medicine Practices for Pediatric Patients With Chronic Pain. Clin J Pain. 2025 Mar 01; 41(3).
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Allen LA, Lowe EF, Matlock DD. The Economic Burden of Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction: Living Longer but Poorer? Heart Fail Clin. 2024 Oct; 20(4):363-372.
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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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Shih YT, Yabroff KR, Bradley C. The utility of value frameworks in cost communications: making them real for patients. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2024 Sep 01; 116(9):1411-1413.
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