-
Mashup Score: 3Cancer Patient's Final Act: Destroying Medical Debt - 4 month(s) ago
Viral campaign will erase some $60 million in medical debt
Source: www.medpagetoday.comCategories: General Medicine News, General HCPsTweet
-
Mashup Score: 8The Joint Distribution Of High Out-Of-Pocket Burdens, Medical Debt, And Financial Barriers To Needed Care - 4 month(s) ago
Health care financial pressures in the US can manifest themselves in a variety of ways. Some families face high out-of-pocket spending on insurance premiums and medical care relative to income and assets. Some face medical debt that must be paid off over time. And some face delays or go without needed care for reasons involving cost. Whereas prior research has generally focused on these problems separately, a more complete picture of the challenges facing US families can be obtained by examining the joint distribution of these three financial problems. Applying relatively strict definitions of financial problems to data from the 2018–19 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, we found that 27.0 percent of nonsenior adults lived in families with at least one of the three financial strains assessed. The share of participants facing more broadly defined financial problems was 45.4 percent. Prevalence varied across sociodemographic characteristics, families’ health care needs, insurance coverage
Source: www.healthaffairs.orgCategories: General Medicine News, General HCPsTweet
-
Mashup Score: 42Nationwide - RIP Medical Debt - 4 month(s) ago
Casey Ryan McIntyre, 38, beloved mother, wife, sister, daughter, niece, and aunt died on November 12th, 2023. As Publisher at Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Random House, she derived great joy from publishing books for a new generation of readers, and saw herself in every child sprawled out on a couch, rug, or bunk bed engrossed in their latest book obsession. Her greatest gifts and joys were her ready and generous wit, her easy laugh, her devotion to her family and friends, and her astonishing determination and grit. She knew the lyrics to every song, […]
Source: ripmedicaldebt.orgCategories: General Medicine News, Hem/OncsTweet
-
Mashup Score: 0One-third of Americans burdened by medical debt: study - 5 month(s) ago
Insurance coverage often fails to help Americans avoid medical debt, a new survey from the Commonwealth Fund revealed. | Even with health insurance, people are feeling the effects of high medical costs, often cutting back on necessities or delaying care. A new survey shows half of Americans struggle to avoid their healthcare.
Source: www.fiercehealthcare.comCategories: General Medicine News, General HCPsTweet
-
Mashup Score: 0One-third of Americans burdened by medical debt: study - 5 month(s) ago
Insurance coverage often fails to help Americans avoid medical debt, a new survey from the Commonwealth Fund revealed. | Even with health insurance, people are feeling the effects of high medical costs, often cutting back on necessities or delaying care. A new survey shows half of Americans struggle to avoid their healthcare.
Source: www.fiercehealthcare.comCategories: General Medicine News, General HCPsTweet
-
Mashup Score: 3Childbirth associated with significant medical debt - 6 month(s) ago
For some families, the year after childbirth may not only mean loads of diapers but stacks of unpaid medical bills as well.
Source: medicalxpress.comCategories: General Medicine News, Latest HeadlinesTweet
-
Mashup Score: 0Consumers Feel the Pinch of Medical Debt, Skip Healthcare Access - 6 month(s) ago
More patients carry medical debt, an issue researchers from Debt.com are attributing to medical debt. What’s more, medical debt is impacting patient access to care, discouraging access.
Source: patientengagementhit.comCategories: Healthcare Professionals, Latest HeadlinesTweet
-
Mashup Score: 0
The Biden administration announced a major initiative to protect Americans from medical debt on Thursday, outlining
Source: www.fiercehealthcare.comCategories: Healthcare Professionals, Latest HeadlinesTweet
-
Mashup Score: 0Medical Debt Is Making Americans Angry. Doctors and Hospitals Ignore This at Their Peril. - 8 month(s) ago
Doctors and hospitals hold an exalted position in American life, retaining public confidence even as other institutions such as government, law enforcement, and the media are losing people’s trust.…
Source: kffhealthnews.orgCategories: Healthcare Professionals, Latest HeadlinesTweet
-
Mashup Score: 4
If you live in Massachusetts, Hawaii, and New Hampshire, you win a kind of state lottery for public health and well-being, based on this year’s read of the 2023 Scorecard on State Health System Performance from The Commonwealth Fund. Here’s a picture of the annual study’s top-line findings, a roster of the fifty U.S. states ranked by a mash-up of health system indicators. As Annie…
Source: HealthPopuli.comCategories: Healthcare Professionals, Latest HeadlinesTweet
"We've never seen a campaign raise so much money for medical debt abolishment so quickly.” --@AllisonSesso of @RIPMedicalDebt on viral campaign that will erase some $60 million in #medicaldebt. https://t.co/YuXp4rnBPo