"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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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1995 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 1996 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1997 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 1999 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2000 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2001 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2002 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2003 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| 2004 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2005 | 3 | 8 | 11 |
| 2006 | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| 2007 | 6 | 4 | 10 |
| 2008 | 2 | 5 | 7 |
| 2009 | 2 | 5 | 7 |
| 2010 | 2 | 9 | 11 |
| 2011 | 4 | 6 | 10 |
| 2012 | 9 | 5 | 14 |
| 2013 | 11 | 5 | 16 |
| 2014 | 5 | 8 | 13 |
| 2015 | 18 | 9 | 27 |
| 2016 | 11 | 8 | 19 |
| 2017 | 16 | 11 | 27 |
| 2018 | 12 | 9 | 21 |
| 2019 | 10 | 5 | 15 |
| 2020 | 7 | 8 | 15 |
| 2021 | 4 | 7 | 11 |
| 2022 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 2023 | 3 | 5 | 8 |
| 2024 | 3 | 14 | 17 |
| 2025 | 8 | 2 | 10 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Health Care Costs" by people in Profiles.
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The Current and Future Burden of Long COVID in the United States. J Infect Dis. 2025 Jul 11; 231(6):1581-1590.
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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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Health care resource utilization and costs associated with switching versus augmenting antidepressant monotherapy in second-line treatment of major depressive disorder. J Affect Disord. 2025 Dec 15; 391:119787.
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Real-world healthcare costs for patients treated with chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy in Canada. Leuk Lymphoma. 2025 Oct; 66(10):1875-1883.
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Insurer and patient costs for repeat breast surgery after initial lumpectomy for breast cancer. Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2025 Aug; 212(3):457-465.
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Factors Associated with Health Care Costs in Older Adults with Type 2 Diabetes: Insights for Value-Based Payment Models. Popul Health Manag. 2025 Aug; 28(4):191-197.
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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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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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Unveiling the cost-effectiveness of bariatric surgery: insights from a matched cohort study. Surg Obes Relat Dis. 2025 09; 21(9):987-995.
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Epidemiology and Economic Burden of Diagnosed Congenital Cytomegalovirus Infection in the First 2 Years of Life among Commercially Insured and Medicaid-Insured Individuals in the United States. Clin Ther. 2025 Jun; 47(6):426-435.