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'Phantom' provider lists limit Medicaid mental health care access, study finds

Healthcare Dive

The Health Affairs research showed that inaccurate provider directories may create a barrier to treatment for a population that needs it most.

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Gas ‘N Healthcare – How Transportation Links to Health Care Access and Financial Health

Jane Sarashon

When it comes to health consumers home economics, it’s déjà vu all over again, and again, and again… The post Gas ‘N Healthcare – How Transportation Links to Health Care Access and Financial Health appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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Health Care Access on the Line — Audio-Only Visits and Digitally Inclusive Care

NEJM

Action is needed to ensure that the digital health revolution helps bring about a more equitable care delivery system. Audio-only visits could be a stepping stone to digitally inclusive health care.

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Ghost Networks and Mental Healthcare

Bill of Health

States should seek to enter the PSYPACT in order to expand mental health care access across the country. 2025) research interests are focused on the intersection of health and the law. In 2023, legislation to join PSYPACT was introduced in New York and Massachusetts but neither has passed. Rebekah Ninan’s (J.D.

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HelloHero Lands Growth Funding Package From Decathlon Capital Partners

Healthcare IT Today

. “Growing up with dyslexia and witnessing my mother struggle with anxiety, I saw firsthand how a lack of access to appropriate care can impact lives,” Mohammed said. It’s my life’s dream to build something meaningful that positively impacts communities for generations to come.”

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A Novel Approach to Crisis Standards of Care

Bill of Health

Though crisis standards of care are meant to provide an ethics-based approach to the complex process of allocating scarce health care resources, in reality, they fall short. Even the best laid plans cannot guarantee an equitable division of health care resources.

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Prison Health Care is Broken Under the Medicaid Inmate Exclusion Policy

Bill of Health

Currently, overburdened county and local jails provide inadequate care for incarcerated individuals with high rates of comorbidities, mental health issues, and COVID-19. Repealing the MIEP can significantly improve health care access for incarcerated individuals.

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