White Bagging: A Prescription for Disruption in Care
White bagging not only creates significant uncompensated administrative burden and scheduling challenges for providers, but it also delays or limits access to necessary medication for patients.
When Listening Could Save a Life: The Human Cost of Medical Gaslighting
Let’s be honest. Clinicians are taught to reduce unnecessary care. But there’s a razor-thin line between avoiding unnecessary tests and failing to believe a patient’s symptoms.
The Human Algorithm: What AI Can’t Replace in Pharma Engagement
At a time when AI is reshaping pharma, Reverba Global CEO Cheryl Lubbert explained in an interview why empathy, context, and ethics still require a human touch.
Atherosclerosis and Osteoporosis: A Tale of Two Conditions
Why has there been so little progress against the rate of osteoporotic fractures and the associated morbidity and mortality? The deaths are real, the pain and suffering are real — and almost all of us have witnessed it. And, of course, the cost to our health system, $57 billion per year, is real.
Protecting Members’ Medicaid Coverage Must Start Now
Here's a roadmap that brings together a wide range of existing and new initiatives under four key goals that enable community-based organizations to take stock of their existing capabilities and coordinate across them effectively.
Better Navigation is Key to Improving Behavioral Health Access and Outcomes
The promise of current and future technologies is encouraging – and it further underscores the importance of building the right support systems to help patients navigate the system and access the appropriate care at the right time and place.
Rethinking Masculinity in Men’s Health
Too many men ignore symptoms until they can no longer function. We end up seeing them in the emergency room, sometimes with late-stage cancer or uncontrolled chronic disease that could have been managed if addressed earlier.
What Are Healthcare Organizations Getting Wrong about Email Security?
A new report by Paubox calls for healthcare IT leaders to dispose of outdated assumptions about email security and address the challenges of evolving cybersecurity threats.
Overlooked in the Overdose Crisis: Addressing Substance Use Treatment for Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Communities
Researchers and policymakers must challenge the default framing and stereotypical minority myth mindset which uniformly classifies AANHPI communities as low-risk, hindering both visibility and resource allocation.
A Call for Healthcare Cuts — But Not the Kind You’re Thinking Of
What if the kind of cuts we should be talking about are the ones that actually make care better? Like cutting confusion. Because for many people, the biggest barrier to healthcare access isn’t cost or availability – it’s complexity.
The Workforce is Suffering from Chronic Back Pain — It’s Time for a New Approach
While high-acuity options must remain for those that need stronger interventions, millions more could be benefiting from access to low-acuity or minimal interventions.
The Mental Health Crisis: Why Immediate and Affordable Care Needs to Become the Norm
Our mental health system is not designed to treat people in crisis. Instead of being administered right away and effectively, it shoves patients through a maze of barriers. If we are serious about saving lives, then we must reconsider how mental health care is administered.
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The Definitive Guide to Medical Billing Outsourcing: 5 Top Companies
In today’s healthcare landscape, your choice of medical billing partner directly impacts your bottom line. What are the best medical billing outsourcing companies, and which one is right for you?
Buprenorphine Access Still Lags, Even After Major Federal Policy Changes
While the drop in drug overdose deaths is promising, and could potentially be partially attributed to the efforts of the federal government, we must remain cognizant about the sheer number of lives we continue to lose every year to overdose.
How High is Too High? The Crippling Cost of Denial Rates
Patients should know exactly what's covered and what it costs before receiving care. Doctors should be empowered to make medical decisions without interference from insurance companies. And the entire process should be designed to facilitate care, not obstruct it.
4 Ways to Help Vulnerable Patients Engage with Primary Care
it is essential that more individuals receive high-quality, evidence-based primary care. While government agencies are working towards this objective, significant efforts can also be made at the community level and by independent primary care providers.
Medicaid’s Health Equity Problem Starts and Ends with Health-Related Social Needs (HRSNs). Why Are They Being Overlooked?
While federal healthcare programs focus their attention on ensuring healthcare resources exist for communities in need, HRSNs become critical drivers of whether individuals can actually access and benefit from these resources.
CVS Health launches new social care network in partnership with Unite Us
The so-called Destination: Health network will launch later this year with Aetna Medicaid members in Louisville, Kentucky and Aetna dual-eligible special needs plan members in Tampa, Florida and Southeastern Louisiana.