Behavioral health — counseling, mental health care, and care for substance use issues — is one of the basic benefits associated with health insurance and healthcare delivery. The COVID-19 pandemic has reminded us of the gross inadequacy of current behavioral health to deliver high quality care...
In the past several years, dispensing has also become popular among physicians in the direct primary care movement — a fast-growing clinical model that aims to offer low-cost care without involving insurance companies. FromSalon “The assumption is that de-escalation can happen without direct prim...
Direct Primary Care Better Than Health InsuranceA recent New York Times story took a look at why "Many Low-Income Workers Say 'No' to Health...Owen, Justin
How do direct primary care appointments work? The idea behind DPC is that doctors can devote more of their time and effort to patients, delivering better and more cost-effective care because they don’t have to deal with complicated billing and insurance requirements. “Primary care and certain...
In this setting, universal health insurance appears to be successful in achieving income equity in physician visits. This strategy alone does not eliminate education-related gradients in specialist care. 展开 关键词: Humans Health Surveys Health Status Medicine Educational Status Adult Aged Specialization...
The efforts in Rhode Island to improve the reimbursement of primary healthcare could eventually "tell the tale." The state legislature enacted a mandatory requirement to increase the reimbursement by private health insurance payors. The mandated increase occurred at 1% a year for 2010-2014 without ...
child dyads. Eligible children will be 2–6 years of age with Medicaid/CHIP/no insurance recruited from 10 to 15 pediatric primary care clinics. In each clinic, each dyad will be assigned by 1:1 randomization to one of the two regimens: PriCARE/CARIÑOplus usual care, or usual care ...
In the role of care coordinator, your PCP is the team captain. They know what each of the specialists is doing and will make sure they’re not duplicating tests or procedures that have already been done by another specialist. Your insurance company will also do this as part of theirutilizat...
The key distinction of DPC is that it operates outside the realm of traditional health insurance. The insurance intermediary is eliminated at the primary care level. This reduces cost, improves efficiency, and provides for a direct and ongoing relationship between the patient and the primary care ...
In 2021, public health expenditure on primary care services in Spain amounted to approximately 12.7 billion euros, the highest value reported since 2010. Public spending on primary healthcare services showed an uptrend from 2014, after reaching around 8.9 billion euros in the European country. Dur...