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The 2021 Guide to Behavioral Health Insurance Billing

TheraNest

Providers need to pay special attention to behavioral health insurance billing in 2021. Since its start, the need for quality mental health services has increased across the country. A higher number of individuals are suffering from mental and behavioral health-related issues due to the Coronavirus.

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Changing Views of Retirement and Health Post-COVID: Transamerica’s Look At Workers’ Disrupted Futures

Health Populi

The study was fielded between October and December 2021, thus before the onset of significant inflation on household budgets in 2022. As mental health converges so intimately with physical health and financial health, this part of the study is so important (and appreciated!). 100,000 for the unemployed.

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Jasper, Scaling a Human Touch for People Dealing with Cancer, Now With Walgreens

Health Populi

In 2019, Find Care expanded services for consumers to manage chronic health conditions addressing asthma, COPD, and diabetes. Patients can track nutrition and food intake, mood and mental health, financial issues, transportation, and activity (such as steps). These data came from a JAMA Oncology article published in April 2021).

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Call It Deferring Services or Self-Rationing, U.S. Consumers Are Still Avoiding Medical Care

Health Populi

.” Nearly a decade ago, I cited the Kaiser Family Foundation Health Security Watch of May 2012 here in Health Populi. adults had problems paying medical bills, largely delaying care due to cost for a visit or for prescription drugs. The first chart here shows that one in four U.S.

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From Evolution to Innovation, from Health Care to Health: How Health Plans With Collaborators Are Re-Defining the Industry

Health Populi

As a constant observer and advisor across the health/care ecosystem, for me the concept of a “health plan” in the U.S. Furthermore, health plan members now see themselves as medical bill payers, seeking value and consumer-level services for their health insurance premium investment.

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How COVID-19 is Hurting Americans’ Home Economics in 2020

Health Populi

With most Americans living paycheck to paycheck, lacking sufficient savings or liquidity to cover emergency expenses (beyond the emergency room in a hospital), fewer people can now pay a $500 medical bill, KFF found. economy which will be headed into a recession in 2020 and into 2021, based on the IMF’s latest forecast.

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Bonus Features – August 6, 2023 – 83% of hospitals are collecting SDoH data, 46% of hospitals planning to use large language models in the call center, and more

Healthcare IT Today

The report also cited a 50% increase in breaches from 2022 as compared to 2021. Partnerships Fintech company Cedar is working with Google Cloud to build AI-powered tools to hep patients understand medical bills. Wolters Kluwer and Unbound Medicine released a mobile app that digitizes Lippincott’s Nursing Drug Handbook.

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