Updated Role for Doctors in Disaster Management
American Medical Association (AMA) updates the position statement for doctors’ role in disasters management.
The position statement was reinforced based on the experience of doctors in the recent bushfire and flood catastrophes and the ...
Medicaid Expansion Averts Suicides
The rise of suicide cases has slowed slightly in states that have implemented Medicaid expansion.
“Suicide is a public health problem, and our findings indicate that increasing access to health care — including mental health care — by ...
Empathy Forms the Heart of Healthcare
First and only UK research centre to dedicate empathy to the heart of healthcare has set an urgent yet reforming need for patient care.
Prof. Jeremy Howick will join this first center — The Stoneygate Centre for Excellence in Empathic ...
Medicare Program Spent $1.8 Billion in 2019 on Drugs Without Confirmed Clinical Benefits: Study
In 2019, the U.S. federal government expended an estimated $1.8 billion in Medicare funds on medications whose clinical benefits have yet to be confirmed by the Food and Drug Administration, stated researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School ...
Private Insurers Paid Hospitals 224% of What Medicare Would in 2020: Study
According to a new RAND Corporation report, during 2020, prices paid to hospitals by employers and private insurers for inpatient and outpatient services averaged 224% of what Medicare would have paid, with wide variation in costs among states. ...
Amazon is Going to be Generous With Employee’s Health
The giant online retail company Amazon took a firm stance by pushing against a prevailing law that restricts access to abortion, telling its staff that it would pay up to $4,000 in travel expenses for non-life-threatening medical treatments ...
Postpartum Insurance Loss Lowered During COVID-19 Pandemic
During the pandemic, significantly fewer people lost postpartum insurance, stated a new study in JAMA Health Forum.
Compared to the prior year, consistent Medicaid coverage among postpartum participants increased during the pandemic. ...
Link Between Medicaid and Cancer Survival
Cancer patients covered by Medicaid tend to have the later-stage disease and higher mortality rates, revealed study.
But when Cathy Bradley, PhD, deputy director of the University of Colorado (CU) Cancer Center, started digging into the data a ...
National Obesity Strategy Lacks Clear Directions
Merits of World Health Day strategy has been reported to lack clear funding and legislative priorities on and ahead of the federal election as per the health policy expert.
The plan released last month by the Health Ministers Meeting ...
Medicaid Health Plan Community Health Workers Have Positive Impact on Care
A new study finds that community health workers hired by Medicaid health plans help low-income people who face barriers to care to rely less on the emergency room and more on outpatient care. br>
And that may lead to better use of funding, and ...
Increased Utilization of Ayushman Bharat PM-JAY Services Among Women
The female utilization of the Ayushman Bharat PM-JAY scheme stood at 46.7% of the total utilization, revealed a recent study.
Currently women comprise up to 49.6 per cent of the total enrolled AB PM-JAY beneficiaries. States like Manipur, ...
Affordability and Access Challenges Among Subscribers to Non-group Insurance Plans: Study
A new study has examined the cost-related experiences of families with non-group health insurance plans purchased on or off the Marketplace. The study has been conducted by researchers at the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute and published in ...
Rare Disease Crowdfunding Campaign Raises Over INR 125 Cr
A rare disease online donation crowdfunding movement in India raised INR 125+ crore in 14 months (January 2021 to February 2022), for patients fighting rare diseases like Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA type 1 & 2), Gaucher’s disease, Pompe’s disease, ...
Private Insurance Plans Must Cover the Full Colorectal Cancer Screening Continuum: Study
A guidance requiring private insurers to cover colonoscopy when needed as a follow-up to a non-invasive colorectal cancer screening test has been issued by the Biden Administration.
This will prevent patients from receiving surprise bills for ...
Medicaid Expansion Linked to Reductions in Mortality
Making Medicaid available to more people was found to decrease fatalities, revealed study published in The Lancet Public Health. The study shows that expanding Medicaid may result in an overall drop of approximately 3.8 percent in adult deaths each ...
