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Have insurance? Good luck finding an in-network mental health professional. And be prepared to pay a bundle out-of-pocket. As a psychiatrist, Dr. Andrew Popper wanted to see lower- and middle-income patients who often face the greatest mental health challenges. He also thought taking insurance was part of a well-rounded practice. But years of hassles to get insurance companies to pay routine claims wore him down. For Popper, who practices in the Boston area and volunteers as an instructor at Harvard Medical School, the last straw came in 2022. Suddenly, an elderly patient he’d been seeing for more than a decade was getting her weekly claims turned down. The amount was just $30, but the money mattered to the patient. Popper said he made about a half-dozen calls to the insurance company – often more than 30 minutes each when the prompts and time on hold were factored in. Each time, the company’s representative agreed there’d been a mistake – but the claims were never paid.  Better he...

Sanders pledges $30M for mental health and substance abuse Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders and the Arkansas Department of Human Services plan to invest $30 million into mental health and substance abuse services. The money will come from the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA). State of play:  In 2021, 637 people in Arkansas died of drug overdoses,  according to the CDC . Still, the state's rate of 22.3 deaths per 100,000 people was 11th-lowest in the country. Meanwhile, Arkansans reported having more poor mental health days, averaging 5.5 in a 30-day period compared to 4.4 nationally,  according to the 2023 report from County Health Rankings & Roadmaps.      More

  Medicare Changes Are Coming Prediction: more telehealth with remote patient monitoring. telethink .net #physicians #therapists #247support Consumers often don’t notice what the agency is doing. But we’re at an inflection point, where several sets of slow-moving changes to Medicare have set in motion significant shifts that will be felt by all Medicare users. Understanding what’s going on can help you make the right decisions about your health care. I’ll provide some context for the changes and then explain them. More

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  Switching carriers could come with a nasty financial surprise: a new deductible. Friday Health Plans started in Colorado in 2015 with hopes of revolutionizing the health insurance market. Nearly a decade later, the company has imploded, leaving tens of thousands of people scrambling to find new health insurance in Colorado and beyond. more Telethink , avoid deductibles altogether

  Telethink Health - Reduce My Medical Bills "... among those who experienced coverage problems in the last year, roughly 1 in 6 said the result was delayed care or no care at all. And one-quarter said that when they did get care, it cost more out-of-pocket than they had been expecting." more reducemymedicalbills.com

  This Nonprofit Health System Cuts Off Patients With Medical Debt Many hospitals in the United States use aggressive tactics to collect medical debt. They flood local courts with collections lawsuits. They garnish patients’ wages. They seize their tax refunds. But a wealthy nonprofit health system in the Midwest is among those taking things a step further: withholding care from patients who have unpaid medical bills. Allina Health System, which runs more than 100 hospitals and clinics in Minnesota and Wisconsin and brings in $4 billion a year in revenue, sometimes rejects patients who are deep in debt, according to internal documents and interviews with doctors, nurses and patients. more *Stop paying high deductibles and avoid unnecessary office, urgent care and emergency visits reducemymedicalbills.com

  Insurance is Expensive, Health Care Is Not. Telethink Health, search it. https://wendellpotter.substack.com/p/335-million-take-home-here-are-the?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=255152&post_id=124887914&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email

Telethink New Health America Why the concern with the current budget and over spending? It's why our company fights for a better way of paying for health care. Health insurance is expensive, health care is not. Besides, who would you rather pay, your health care provider or, some insurance corpocracy?

How to Reduce Your Medical Bills or, Have Them Forgiven How to find out if your medical bill(s) can be forgiven .  Lots of people qualify— but providers won’t always tell you, or make it easy. Luckily, you can get help. ReduceMyMedicalBills.com "One of the cruelest aspects of American health-care economic injustice is out-of-pocket spending. Plans with high deductibles are often the only insurance that low- and middle-income families can afford.  The problem is that if they get sick, they go broke or cut back on needed health care or both. Unaffordable deductibles add insult to injury."  HEALTH CARE un-covered " A high-deductible health plan has a deductible of at least $1,400 for single coverage or $2,800 for family coverage."  Forbes Consider Our Direct Family Care Coverage Instead of Paying Thousands With High Deductible Insurance and Save Our network was recognized in 2021 by J.D. Power as a top direct-to-consumer telehealth provider, it was also ranked on t...

HOW TO FIND OUT IF YOUR MEDICAL BILL CAN BE FORGIVEN Lots of people qualify— but providers won’t always tell you, or make it easy. Luckily, you can get help. Sponsored by Telethink Health If you’re facing a medical bill, you may qualify to get it written off entirely.  Charity care policies make that possible. The majority of U.S. hospitals are non-profits, and they’re legally required to have charity care policies, sometimes they’re called financial assistance policies. These policies mean that if your income falls below a certain level, the hospital has to forgive your bill. This is even more powerful than it might seem, for three reasons: First, you don’t necessarily have to be dirt poor to qualify for help:   Many hospitals give financial assistance to people with incomes at multiples of the federal poverty level.  Second, for-profits often have charity-care policies too — and  studies   show  they’re at least as generous as nonprofits, on the whole. Th...

The long-overlooked solution to upend health care economics: Bringing the hospital home "The current incentive system is actually backwards. It favors services rendered in hospitals by reacting to illness instead of preventing it and creating wellness. With advanced technologies in place, once we align payment systems to focus on preventative and home-based care, we can build the powerful healthcare system of the future." more #homehealth Telethink #aginginplace

More care at home could save Medicare, lawmakers believe " A new bill from Reps.  Adrian Smith  (R-Neb.) and  Debbie Dingell  (D-Mich.) that aims to reduce care in hospitals and other health care facilities and increase it in living rooms marks a rare, bipartisan collaboration on a potential solution to  Medicare’s financing problem . And it has drawn support from tech companies, insurers, venture capitalists, providers and telehealth advocates."  more And We'll Be There To Help  Telethink Health