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It’s Mental Illness Awareness Week: “What I Wish I Had Known” About Mental Health

Health Populi

For 2022’s campaign, here are some key data about mental illness in the U.S. adults experience mental illness each year. adults experience serious mental illness each year. youth aged 6-17 experience a mental health disorder each year… a growing concern. health system for patients across demographics.

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Americans’ Sense of Well-Being Falls to Great Recession Levels, Gallup Finds

Health Populi

It’s déjà vu all over again for Americans’ well-being: we haven’t felt this low since the advent of the Great Recession that hit our well-well-being hard in December 2008. The Great Recession was a direct hit on national and personal economics; health was an indirect impact.

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The Patient as Consumer and Payer – A Focus on Financial Stress and Wellbeing

Health Populi

These self-care tasks extended in our health care across all dimensions of “health” including mental health, nutrition and gut wellness, sleep, and certainly financial health. I wrote early on in the pandemic that mental health impacts would be the epidemic inside and beyond the coronavirus itself.

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Access to Mental Health Care Strengthened

ACA Times

Low-income Americans will have greater access to mental health and substance abuse treatments under a new rule proposed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). That law says benefits for mental health and substance abuse disorders must be no more restrictive than those for medical and surgical services.

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The Cost of Treating Patients is On the Rise: PwC Goes What’s Behind the 2024 Medical Spending Numbers

Health Populi

The chart on the median price of newly marketed drugs between 2008 and 2002 shows the cost in 2022 reaching $222,000. CMS) and commercial/private side of health plan strategies. Take prescription drugs pushing medical trend upward. Since 2019, we can see the hockey-stick increase in the price of specialty drugs fast-growing.

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Spotify Health: Big Tech's latest new entrant into Healthcare

Lloyd Price

Spotify plans to use Neko Health's technology to develop new features for its music streaming service, such as personalized playlists based on a user's health data. In 2022, the company launched a pilot program in the United States that provides mental health counseling to Spotify employees.

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Telepsychiatry saves east Texas hospitals $18 million over 7 years

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In the early 2000s, the state of Texas was in the midst of a widely recognized, multi-decade crisis from lack of mental health services for people in need. Psychiatric facilities were above capacity, leaving patients in mental health emergencies with either jail or emergency rooms as their only options. THE PROBLEM.