Improved Insurance Access Increases Elective Colon Resection Rates
A new analysis proves that the Massachusetts health insurance ' experiment ' resulted in better cancer care. (Source: Medscape Oncology)
Source: Medscape Oncology - November 16, 2017 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Medscape Source Type: podcasts
PodMed – Week of October 20, 2017
This week’s topics include Medicare spending on frail elderly, resorbable stents, men with HPV, and procalcitonin to assess antibiotic need. Program notes: 0:41 Looking at procalcitonin to determine antibiotic use 1:42 Improve or worsen survival 2:40 Point of care testing 2:54 Stents that resorb 3:52 First approved in Europe in 2011 4:50 Post marketing surveillance […] (Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine Weekly Health News)
Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine Weekly Health News - October 20, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Elizabeth Tracey Johns Hopkins Medicine Tags: All Podcasts Geriatrics Health Insurance Heart And Vascular Infectious diseases PodMed Source Type: podcasts
Why Workers Continue to Face High Health Costs Despite Slowing Employer Insurance Cost Growth
As the nation debates whether to replace or amend the Affordable Care Act, we’ll look at trends in health insurance provided by employers. Fifty-seven percent of adults under the age of 65 get coverage through their job—a benefit companies have kept since the passage of the ACA.
(Source: New Directions in Health Care)
Source: New Directions in Health Care - December 9, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: The Commonwealth Fund Source Type: podcasts
PodMed – Week of September 12, 2016
This week’s topics include use of cord blood, the burden of electronic medical records, utility of craniotomy in traumatic brain injury, and alternative therapies for managing pain. Program notes: 0:36 Pain management techniques 1:39 Back pain acupuncture and yoga 2:36 Transition with insurance 3:24 Craniotomy and traumatic brain injury 4:25 TBI often have sequela 5:00 […] (Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine Weekly Health News)
Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine Weekly Health News - September 10, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Elizabeth Tracey Johns Hopkins Medicine Tags: All Podcasts Cancer Critical care medicine Health Insurance Neurology And Neurosurgery Pain And Pain Relief Patient Care PodMed Source Type: podcasts
Making Sure People in Every State Have the Help They Need to Get Covered
Navigators are hired to help the public sign up for and choose a health insurance policy through online exchanges, or marketplaces, established by the Affordable Care Act. But some states have laws or regulations that are making it hard for navigators to perform this important role.
(Source: New Directions in Health Care)
Source: New Directions in Health Care - June 25, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Authors: The Commonwealth Fund Source Type: podcasts
A Health Insurance Solution for Small Businesses
About one-quarter of American workers are employed by companies with fewer than 50 people on the payroll, and until now, insurers have charged these employers more for health insurance. In this episode, The Commonwealth Fund's Sara Collins and grantee Jon Gabel explain how the Affordable Care Act has ended that practice, and given employers the ability to offer their workers a choice of affordable plans.
(Source: New Directions in Health Care)
Source: New Directions in Health Care - March 2, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Authors: The Commonwealth Fund Source Type: podcasts
China
’s New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme, aims to provide health insurance to 800 million rural citizens. We’ll be finding out from Scott Rozelle, from Stanford University and Qingye Meng from Peking University, the background to the formation of the scheme, and its place in the wider Chinese medical system. (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - August 28, 2013 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
Understanding the Health Insurance Exchanges: One-Stop Shopping for Affordable Coverage
The new state-based health insurance exchanges, established under the Affordable Care Act, are where individuals, families, and small businesses will be able to buy affordable private health insurance starting in 2014. In this episode, Sandy Hausman interviews experts Sara Collins, Timothy Jost, and Sara Rosenbaum about how the exchanges will work and whom they will help.
(Source: New Directions in Health Care)
Source: New Directions in Health Care - August 13, 2012 Category: Global & Universal Authors: The Commonwealth Fund Source Type: podcasts
AUTHOR WENDELL POTTER - Dez 20,2011
SURVIVOR SPOTLIGHT LAZ RAPSTRONG 2x Cancer Survivor, Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia CEO/ Founder of Rapstrong Records, Hip Hop Artist/TV Producer "Musical Therapy" WENDELL POTTER Infamous Health Insurance Industry Whistleblower Author, "DEADLY SPIN: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR Is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans" Senior Analyst, The Center for Public Integrity (Source: The Stupid Cancer Show - Blog Talk Radio)
Source: The Stupid Cancer Show - Blog Talk Radio - December 20, 2011 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Stupid Cancer Show Tags: Health Source Type: podcasts
Author wendell potter - 十二月 20,2011
SURVIVOR SPOTLIGHT LAZ RAPSTRONG 2x Cancer Survivor, Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia CEO/ Founder of Rapstrong Records, Hip Hop Artist/TV Producer "Musical Therapy" WENDELL POTTER Infamous Health Insurance Industry Whistleblower Author, "DEADLY SPIN: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR Is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans" Senior Analyst, The Center for Public Integrity (Source: The Stupid Cancer Show - Blog Talk Radio)
Source: The Stupid Cancer Show - Blog Talk Radio - December 20, 2011 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Stupid Cancer Show Tags: Health Source Type: podcasts
Author wendell potter
SURVIVOR SPOTLIGHT LAZ RAPSTRONG 2x Cancer Survivor, Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia CEO/ Founder of Rapstrong Records, Hip Hop Artist/TV Producer "Musical Therapy" WENDELL POTTER Infamous Health Insurance Industry Whistleblower Author, "DEADLY SPIN: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR Is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans" Senior Analyst, The Center for Public Integrity (Source: The Stupid Cancer Show - Blog Talk Radio)
Source: The Stupid Cancer Show - Blog Talk Radio - December 20, 2011 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Stupid Cancer Show Tags: Health Source Type: podcasts
Author wendell potter
SURVIVOR SPOTLIGHT
LAZ RAPSTRONG
2x Cancer Survivor, Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia
CEO/ Founder of Rapstrong Records,
Hip Hop Artist/TV Producer "Musical Therapy"
WENDELL POTTER
Infamous Health Insurance Industry Whistleblower
Author, "DEADLY SPIN: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR Is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans"
Senior Analyst, The Center for Public Integrity (Source: The Stupid Cancer Show - Blog Talk Radio)
Source: The Stupid Cancer Show - Blog Talk Radio - December 20, 2011 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Stupid Cancer Show Tags: Health Source Type: podcasts
Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Premiums Double but Affordable Care Act to Reverse Trend
Sandy Hausman looks at a new study on state trends for employer-sponsored insurance premiums and deductibles that found a 50 percent increase in premiums between 2003 and 2010, and a 63 percent increase in the employee share of the premium for a family plan. Also discussed are Affordable Care Act provisions that should help lower premiums.
(Source: New Directions in Health Care)
Source: New Directions in Health Care - November 17, 2011 Category: Global & Universal Authors: The Commonwealth Fund Source Type: podcasts
Is Healthcare a Right or a Privilege?
Dr. John Marshall asks: If health insurance is a choice that individuals can opt not to have, who pays for the care of the 40 million people in the United States who have no healthcare insurance? (Source: Medscape Dermatology Podcast)
Source: Medscape Dermatology Podcast - February 3, 2011 Category: Dermatology Authors: Medscape Source Type: podcasts
