Urgent care facilities are usually cheaper when compared to what you would pay for a normal doctor’s visit. If you have an insurance plan or the treatment required is simple, then urgent care centers should be way cheaper regarding cost. If you are uninsured, most centers will expect you ...
Dr. Derrick Smit expressed his thoughts after witnessing the “worst thing” that has ever happened to him so far in his medical career: “Last words I’ll never forget, this was the response my patient gasped out (between labored breaths) to me and my team, after we explained that he ...
ContextUninsured near-elderly adults, particularly those with cardiovascular disease or diabetes, experience worse health outcomes than insured adults.
Fast forward to today. Millions of people are still uninsured, even though there are subsidies provided by those who make more. (Mostly me and you). What's going on? Healthcare affordability is an important issue for all Americans. Nearly 65 percent of uninsured adults who were aware of Ob...
The Wyss Center is the first Jefferson Health clinic created specifically to serve patients regardless of insurance status. Large academic health centers often do not prioritize providing care for uninsured patients or patients with government medical assistance. Estimates from a neighborhood analysis were...
“Annual Family Premiums for Employer Coverage Rise 7% to Average $25,572 in 2024, Benchmark Survey Finds, After Also Rising 7% Last Year,” KFF news release. Oct. 9, 2024. https://www.kff.org/health-costs/press-release/annual-family-premiums-for-employer-coverage-rise-7-to-average-25572...
health insurance status, work/economic activity, health behaviors, and access to and payment of healthcare services. Insurance status captured the health insurance plan that each respondent was enrolled in (contributory or subsidized) or if the respondent was uninsured (not affiliated with any formal...
DeVoe and colleagues41 used 1996 data from the MEPS to compare receipt of preventive services for insured adults with a usual source of care and uninsured adults without regular care (akin to our sensitivity analysis) and found that the latter were substantially less likely to have received ...
Which brings us to Uncompensated Care. Right now, at this very moment, 54% of Mississippi’s rural hospitals are on thecusp of closing—38 of them, because they don’t get paid enough for taking care of poor rural people, most of them uninsured. Yet states that have adopted the Affordab...
Cover the Uninsured Week is March 14-20 Magic Dancers and Arcadian Broad Perform at Day of Dance Two More Gold Seals of Approval™ for Healthcare Quality January Ranked in Top Five Percent In the Nation for Quality and Service Chris McAlpine to Serve as Relay Chair 2009 October Domestic Vi...