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Mary Lou Retton’s Explanation of Health Insurance Takes Some Somersaults

Kaiser Health News

Under the law, which has offered coverage through state and federal marketplaces since 2014, insurers are barred from rejecting people with preexisting conditions and cannot charge higher premiums for them, either. But Retton provided no details on what kind of health insurance she shopped for, or when. 16 in most states.

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Benefits of Outsourcing Mental Health Billing Services

Medisys Compliance

Only around 45%, or 20 million, of the roughly 44 million mature Americans with mental illnesses in 2014 obtained mental health care in the previous year. Understanding the concept of Mental Health Medical Billing. Medical billing include submitting claims for the patient’s healthcare services.

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The New Financial Toxicity in Health Care: The Cost of Hospitalization

Health Populi

The concept of “ financial toxicity” for cancer patients was raised by concerned clinicians at Sloane-Kettering Medical Center, who discussed the topic on 60 Minutes in 2014 and have published papers on the issue. health citizens of the economic hardship of high-cost health problems.

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The Financial Toxicity of Health Care Costs: From Cancer to FICO Scores

Health Populi

To determine whether unpaid medical billing data should be included in credit reports. We come full circle with this third recommendation from CFPB with the Equifax-Experian-TransUnion plan to reduce most medical debt from patients’ credit reports.

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Hospitals Suffer Decline in Consumer Satisfaction

Health Populi

While customer satisfaction with health insurance plans slightly increased between 2018 and 2019, patient satisfaction with hospitals fell in all three settings where care is delivered — inpatient, outpatient, and the emergency room, according to the 2018-2019 ACSI Finance, Insurance and Health Care Report.

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Having Health Insurance Is a Social Determinant of Health: the implications of growing uninsured in the U.S.

Health Populi

2017 reversed advancements in health insurance coverage increases since the advent of the Affordable Care Act, and for the first time since 2014 no states’ uninsured rates fell. ” That’s because being health-insured is a social determinant of health. uninsurance rate rose to 12.2%