Americans Are Worried About the Cost of Their Healthcare (and they have good reason)
By CASEY QUINLAN, HELEN HASKELL, BILL ADAMS, JOHN JAMES, ROBERT R. SCULLY, and POPPY ARFORD
Last year, the Patient Council of the Right Care Alliance conducted a survey in which over 1,000 Americans answered questions about what worried them most about their healthcare. We asked questions about access to care, concerns about misdiagnosis, and risks of treatment, which we reported on in our last THCB piece about the What Worries You Most survey.
We also asked people to rank their concerns about the costs of their care, in five questions that covered cost of care, cost of prescription drugs, cost and availability of in...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 15, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: COVID-19 Health Policy Bill Adams Casey Quinlan cost of care Costs Economics Health Care Costs Helen Haskell John James Patient Council of the Right Care Alliance Poppy Arford Robert R. Scully Source Type: blogs
" Strike Two " : A Pediatrician's " Dance " with Alan Levine/Ballad Health - And WHY We Need Federal Medical Whistle-blower Protection For ALL Healthcare " Workers " NOW
This is the story of how government failed me as a Pediatrician - for the second time. The saddest thing of all is that there is a " Strike Three " . Nobody cares about Pediatrics - or Pediatricians. They haven ' t for a very long time. This is a long post. Don ' t whine about it. Read it. CARE that somebody trying to stand up for your children lived it - and not for the first time.Twenty-two years ago, the morally-bankrupt executives of my now fiscally-bankrupt hometown hospital (in Asheboro, North Carolina) railroaded me out of town . . . after I intervened in a nursery case being...
Source: Dr.J's HouseCalls - May 12, 2020 Category: American Health Tags: Alan Levine Ballad Health Cooperative Agreement COPA ETSU Medical Whistle-blower Pediatric Hospitalist Ralph Northam Randolph Hospital Tennessee Department of Health Virginia Department of Health Source Type: blogs
Will This Novel Virus Revive Older Ones?
Jeffrey A. SingerAs I recently wrotehere, and spoke abouthere, bans on elective surgery invoked by governors across the country in response to the COVID-19 pandemic have caused many people to suffer and even possibly face fatal consequences due to delays in necessary medical care. But there are other reasons why the public health emergency has the potential to generate secondary public health crises.In some cases people are avoiding doctors ’ offices and emergency rooms because they worry about handling theexpense at a time they have seen their income, and perhaps their savings, vanish during the current econom...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 9, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey A. Singer Source Type: blogs
5 Steps Health Insurance CEOs Must Take to Help with COVID-19
By JEFF LIVINGSTON, MD
Imagine a country where you can not see a doctor. Who will refill your blood pressure prescription, see your sick child, mend your broken arm, deliver your baby, or run the ventilator if you fall victim to Coronavirus? The COVID-19 pandemic created a cash-flow crisis causing mass physician layoffs and closure of medical practices. A world without doctors puts us all at risk. The pandemic is the invisible enemy, and the CEOs of large insurance companies have the tools to help doctors stay in the fight.
Our government, healthcare providers, and individuals are doing our part to flatten the curve ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 8, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: COVID-19 Health Policy health insurance companies Jeff Livingston Source Type: blogs
Dear medicine: I ’m breaking up with you
I’m breaking up with you. I fell in love with you when I was just a child sitting in my grandfather ’s family practice office. He put that magical white coat on me, sat me at his desk, welcomed in my first patient, and I was smitten. I grew up playing medical guessing games with him […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 14, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/anonymous" rel="tag" > Anonymous < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Hospital-Based Medicine Practice Management Source Type: blogs
Finding meaning in the intersection between marriage and medicine
When I first saw Jea-Hyoun, in a medical meet-cute straight out of a romantic comedy, she was being evaluated for thyroid cancer. I was an allergy/immunology fellow harried by a pile of paperwork. She was a patient, in the same building where she saw patients of her own as a psychiatry and family practice resident, […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 19, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/charles-feng" rel="tag" > Charles Feng, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Practice Management Psychiatry Source Type: blogs
Amazon Launches Amazon Care, Providing Virtual Visits for Its Seattle Employees
Amazon is launching a virtual care (i.e., telemedicine) choice for its Seattle employees in collaboration withOasis Medical Group, a family medicine clinic in Seattle (see:Amazon launches Amazon Care, a telemedicine-driven care offering for Seattle employees). Here is an excerpt from the article:Amazon is launching Amazon Care, a virtual primary care offering for its Seattle-based employees....Amazon Care will include telemedicine, online chat with a nurse, medication delivery, and app-enabled house calls to the employee's office or home.Amazon is not employing any doctors; instead the company is contracting with...
Source: Lab Soft News - September 26, 2019 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Bruce Friedman Tags: Healthcare Delivery Healthcare Information Technology Healthcare Innovations Medical Consumerism Public Health Telemedicine Source Type: blogs
Pediatric Bookends, Part 1: Letter To The Secretary of NCDHHS Regarding Randolph Hospital
8/21/2019Mandy Cohen, M.D., MPH,Secretary, NC Department of Health and Human Services2001 Mail Service CenterRaleigh, N.C. 27699-2000Re: Randolph Hospital, Asheboro“I sat with my Anger long enough . . . until she told me her real name was Grief.”-UnknownDr. Cohen,A friend of a friend connected me to Sam Hedrick – who advised that if I composed a letter and e-mailed it to her, it would be put into the hands of the Secretary. This finished product is three weeks later than planned . . . because I briefly faltered . . . wondering (for good reason), “What IS the point?”. But I had to do MORE than ...
Source: Dr.J's HouseCalls - August 21, 2019 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Strategies to Help Children with Autism Overcome Challenges at the Dentist
Many people feel anxiety when they go to the dentist. For a child with autism, the sensory elements of the dentist might overwhelm them and make them resist visits. However, through home practice, familiarization appointments, and support, most children with autism or other communication disorders can overcome their anxieties about dental care and enjoy positive appointments for years to come.
I’ve been practicing family dentistry for 17 years. I always try to make patients as comfortable as possible during visits. I share this list of tips for a successful and positive dental experience with professionals who treat chil...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - August 19, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Greg Grillo Tags: Health Care Private Practice Schools Slider Speech-Language Pathology Autism Spectrum Disorder Language Disorders Source Type: blogs
Barriers to good pain rehabilitation
This is a long…… readooops, sorry, not.
Low back pain is, we know, the greatest contributor to days lived with disability (Rice, Smith & Blyth, 2016). And no-one anywhere in the world has found a good mix of services to reduce the number of days lived with disability as a result of this problem. And yet billions of dollars are used to fund research into the many contributors to a shift from acute low back pain to ongoing disability associated with low back pain.
At the same time, treatments that directly target disability, rather than pain (a target considered the most important outcome by Sullivan an...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - June 9, 2019 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: Chronic pain Low back pain Pain conditions Research Science in practice health funding health systems models of care Source Type: blogs
NICU Graduates: On Track for Ongoing Feeding Success!
As each little feeder prepares to transition from our 20-bed, level III (very tiny or sick newborns) neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) to home, the interprofessional team assigns them one of three tracks to support their feeding skills progression. We do this as part of the rounds our team participates in together each day.
This approach helps monitor feeding as babies mature, provides prompt intervention when needed, and supports our ongoing goal of reduced hospital readmissions associated with feeding.
Here’s how each track works to support our smallest patients:
Third track infants receive the guidance of our nurse...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - May 10, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Allyson Goodwyn-Craine Tags: Health Care Private Practice Slider Speech-Language Pathology Early Intervention Feeding Disorders NICU Swallowing Disorders Source Type: blogs
Why do I love being a 43-year-old physician?
“Are you the doctor?” was the most frequently asked question I received from patients in my new practice. The second most common question was:“Are you old enough to be a doctor?” followed by the rather blunt question“How old are you?” I graduated from family practice (FP) residency in 2002 when I was 26-years-old […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - May 5, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/vanessa-peters" rel="tag" > Vanessa Peters, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Primary Care Source Type: blogs
Death by 1,000 clicks: Where electronic health records went wrong
The pain radiated from the top of Annette Monachelli ’s head, and it got worse when she changed positions. It didn’t feel like her usual migraine. The 47-year-old Vermont attorney turned innkeeper visited her local doctor at the Stowe Family Practice twice about the problem in late November 2012, but got little relief. Two months later, […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 22, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/fred-schulte-and-erika-fry" rel="tag" > Fred Schulte and Erika Fry < /a > < /span > Tags: Tech Health IT Source Type: blogs
Net Revenue Generation for Hospitals on the Basis of Physician Speciality
I have previously blogged about the wait time for primary care physicians in the U.S. (see:PCP and Family Physician Wait Times increasing 50% in Many Markets) and the fact that many health systems may be limiting the number of PCPs on their staff because they do not generate as much revenueper capitaas specialized physicians (see: same reference as above). This is because PCPs don't perform procedures like surgeons or interventional cardiologists who are highly reimbursed by our healthcare system. Along these same lines, I came across an article that discusses hospital revenue generated per physician by speciality and ...
Source: Lab Soft News - March 25, 2019 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Bruce Friedman Tags: Cost of Healthcare Healthcare Business Healthcare Delivery Hospital Executive Management Medical Consumerism Quality of Care Source Type: blogs
This Is A Major Article On The Failure Of EHRs In The US - Republished With Permission - An Important Read.
Death By 1,000 Clicks: Where Electronic Health Records Went WrongFred Schulte, Kaiser Health News and Erika Fry, Fortune
The pain radiated from the top of Annette Monachelli ’s head, and it got worse when she changed positions. It didn’t feel like her usual migraine. The 47-year-old Vermont attorney turned innkeeper visited her local doctor at the Stowe Family Practice twice about the problem in late November 2012, but got little relief.
Two months later, Monachelli was dead of a brain aneurysm, a condition that, despite the symptoms and the appointments, had never been tested for or diagnosed until she turned up in t...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - March 19, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
