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Addressing Ghost Networks in Mental Health Care

Bill of Health

To assess the prevalence of ghost networks, Senate Finance Committee staffers conducted a secret shopper study of 120 mental health provider listings across 12 Medicare Advantage plans. Insurers should also work to decrease the shortage of mental health care providers in their networks.

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Prison Health Care is Broken Under the Medicaid Inmate Exclusion Policy

Bill of Health

When incarcerated individuals receive care, providers are often unfamiliar with their medical history, an obstacle to chronic disease treatment. While hospitals and clinics abide by the Center for Medicaid & Medicare Services guidelines, jails and prisons do not.

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Healthcare and the F-Word: Health Politics Rank High on November 6, 2018

Health Populi

voters, conducted in September 2018, making sure insurance companies still have to provide health insurance for people with preexisting conditions ranks top of mind for likely voters in this year’s elections. In their poll of 487 likely U.S. The third chart illustrates the healthcare priorities among people likely to vote this yea.

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Thinking About Health Care One Year From the 2020 Presidential Election

Health Populi

Health care will be a key issue driving people to their local polling places, so it’s an opportune moment to take the temperature on U.S. voters’ perspectives on healthcare reform. has the best health care system in the world. Today’s Financial Times features a poll that found two-thirds of U.S.

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