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A Vote for Telehealth is a Vote for American Patients’ and Doctors’ Well-Being

Health Populi

deaths due to accidents, accidental overdoses, and suicide in 2017. to expand access to integrated primary and behavioral health care to younger people in America, and telehealth can be a practical and even desirable platform for doing so particular for the nation’s younger patient population.

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Five Healthcare Industry Changes to Watch in 2020

Henry Kotula

Timoni, JD, an attorney and partner at the law firm Lindabury, McCormick, Estabrook & Cooper, in Westfield, New Jersey, who represents healthcare providers in areas of reimbursement and managed care contracting. The average number of plans a beneficiary has access to this year will be 28, up by a whopping 50% from 2017.

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Pre-Existing Conditions: A Bipartisan, National Health Priority

Health Populi

Thus we public health folk say that a person’s ZIP code can be more important than her genetic code. Springsteen’s lyrics preach it like a patient facing healthcare sticker shock, an out-of-control medical bill caused by out-of-network or costs-without-insurance: The times are tough now, just getting tougher.