Therefore, health insurance can provide the extra protection you need for yourself and your family under such circumstances. Beyond the obvious advantage of being able to care for your loved ones with financial certainty, a health insurance plan can be a powerful tool when you are fighting medical...
Copayments apply to most insurance plans, meaning the insured has to pay a set dollar amount as their share of the costs of certain services. Coinsurance payments also are standard, which entail a set percentage of the total cost being the responsibility of the insured. Example: Say, for ...
government that is aimed at providing health insurance to individuals who are 65 years old and older, as well as to younger individuals with certain illnesses and disabilities. In general, Medicare provides coverage for hospitalization and medical services. But, the question is whether Medicare ...
People with a lifeway of self-reliance are termed exemplary persons. Confucians praise the ideal of self-cultivation as worthy, opposing welfare dependence (Lim 2021). For many older adults, self-reliance is also a representation of their dignity (Hung 2022). The psychological tendency to rely ...
Digital technologies for older adults, anecdotally termed gerontechnology, have been utilised in many aspects of healthcare. They may appear in telehealth used in primary care or smartphone applications used to support mental (i.e., cognitive training) and physical health (i.e., exercise programs)...
Healthcare concerns have become diverse, ranging from acute and chronic conditions to lifestyle, wellbeing and the prevention of illness. Increasingly, individuals are taking responsibility for monitoring their own conditions. Healthcare technologies are
In addition, the study used data only from Massachusetts; thus, it is unclear whether the results would generalize to other states with different levels of insurance and services. Conclusions Receipt of MTMs appeared to be associated with meaningfully lower downstream medical events compared with non...
Meaning The findings of this study suggest that rates of completion for diagnostic tests and referrals were low for all visit types but worse when ordered during telehealth visits. Abstract Importance Use of telehealth has increased substantially in recent years. However, little is known about whether...
(termed “need” factors in the Andersen model) as correlates of treatment-seeking. Fewer of the included studies examined enabling factors such as insurance, household wealth and social support. There was a lack of published evidence on some factors implicated by the Andersen model, such as ...
Prior work21 has reported that female surgeons undertake additional efforts (termed a status-leveling burden) within the context of the health care ecosystem to address challenges within the profession and these additional efforts may translate to patient outcomes. There are notable patient- and ...