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Transparency in Healthcare: How Consumers Are Taking Control of Their Medical Information

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Representatives from companies like Apple, Amazon, and Google recently met with healthcare executives, including those from some of the largest insurance and healthcare facilities in the country, to address this problem.

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Trust My Doctor and Fear the Office: The Telehealth Opportunity in and Beyond the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Nearly every respondent in the study reported having health insurance coverage. Among those covered with insurance, one-half had employer-sponsored insurance, 1 in 4 Medicare, and 13%, individual cover. Another 8% had Medicaid or a state health insurance program.

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The Infomercial Comes to The Wall Street Journal

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. “The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services should make establishing payment codes for products involving women’s heart disease a priority to prompt private insurers to cover new service lines.” Insurers will be forced to raise rates to cover this new charge. What would I foresee as happening if CMS took action?

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The Median Hospital Charge In the U.S. for COVID-19 Care Ranges From $34-45K

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FAIR Health based these numbers on private insurance claims associated with COVID-19 diagnoses, evaluating patient demographics (age, gender, geography), hospital charges and estimated allowed amounts, and patient comorbidities. They used two ICD-10-CM diagnostic codes for this research: U07.1, privately-insured people.

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ICD-10 Code for Altered Mental Status, Unspecified 2024 – R41.82

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Altered mental status, unspecified (R41.82) is a billable ICD-10 diagnostic code under HIPAA regulations from October 1, 2020, to September 30, 2021. This code is acceptable to insurers when used to describe a marked change in mental health status not attributable to other factors. Clinicians should only use the R41.82

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Friday Reflection 35: Four Who Fired Me

Sensible Medicine

Most patients depart because of the realities of life: a move, loss or change of insurance, death. There was usually an ache or a pain that she was worried about; a medication side effect she thought she was having; interest in a new diagnostic test or advertised supplement. Patients leave doctors’ practices all the time.

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6 Ways ER and Urgent Care Nurses Can Bridge the Gap for Uninsured Patients

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Nurses in these settings play a pivotal role in providing medical care and guiding patients through the complexities of the healthcare system without insurance. Access to Affordable Online Medical Resources As healthcare evolves, the Internet has become a crucial resource for managing health, especially for those without insurance.

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