Hospital technology, not uninsured patients, has been a driving cause of the sharp increase in healthcare costs in TexasHelen Gregg
The healthcare system called the Texas Health and Human Services Commission process "deeply flawed." Jun 26, 2024 HealthCare.gov Moves Sign Up Deadline To 11:59 PM PST Monday The Obama administration is giving consumers a few extra days to sign up on HealthCare.gov in time for health...
Summary of article from CBS Texas, by Brian New: A Texas-based company, Konaniah Medical Supplies, is implicated in a suspected Medicare fraud scheme involving billing for urinary catheters that beneficiaries never ordered or received. The company, along with its associated entity G&I Ortho Suppl...
The Only Way To Stop The Healthcare Predators Is To Take Them Off The StreetsNo one in the field of economics, medicine, science, or partisan politics has been able to refute the study by experts at Yale University, the University of Florida, and the University of Maryland that Bernie Sand...
The Greater San Antonio Hospital Council is a trade organization that has membership in 27 counties in Southwest Texas. As with Texas as a whole, 24 percent of the Hospital Council geographic membership population is uninsured. As a result of the high uninsured population and other less dominant...
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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...
Massachusetts is the national leader when it comes to healthcare. The state had moved to adopt massive healthcare coverage expansions years before the affordable care act was passed. Less than 3.5% of the population remains uninsured and the state has 3rd highest healthcare spending across the co...
Those living in rural areas or healthcare deserts. Those characteristics can be innate, ones an individual is born with,saidthe Texas Epidemic Public Health Institute. They can also be acquired, or ones that are extrinsic to an individual. ...
It sits in the poorest metro area in the nation with the lowest number of doctors per capita. It also has one of the unhealthiest populations with high rates of obesity, diabetes and heart disease. Add to that a large number of uninsured patients - from Texas and Mexico - and medical co...