Medicare Advantage Plans Denied Two Million Prior Authorization Requests in 2021 February 8, 2023 by Diane Archer Imagine that you were given a wad of cash to deliver a service when necessary. And, it was in your discretion to determine when the service was necessary. That’s effectively the way Medicare Advantage works, with the […]
Life and Dollars: A Health Care Insider’s Account of how Prior Authorization Really Works By: Wendell Potter (Substack) February 7, 2023 Prior authorization started out as a means by the “payers” of health care goods and services to provide patients the assurance that what their doctors order is medically necessary and appropriate. A strong
100 Million People in America Are Saddled With Health Care Debt By Noam N. LeveyJUNE 16, 2022 DISPONIBLE EN ESPAÑOL Elizabeth Woodruff drained her retirement account and took on three jobs after she and her husband were sued for nearly $10,000 by the New York hospital where his infected leg was amputated. Ariane Buck,
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Ke Huy Quan Lost Health Insurance After Filming ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’ By Greg Evans March 3, 2023 1:06pm Oscar-nominated Everything Everywhere All At Once actor Ke Huy Quan is used to the long periods of inactivity in a performer’s life, but the former Goonies child star found himself in a particularly thorny stretch
Opinion: How has American healthcare gone so wrong? It shouldn’t be so hard to get the right treatments to the people who need them. But money gets in the way. (Elise Amendola / Associated Press) By Daniel J. Stone March 4, 2023 3 AM PT We all have bad weeks. Mine recently made me
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Report Shows Big Insurance Profiting Massively From Medicare Privatization The seven largest for-profit insurance companies in the U.S. have seen their combined revenues from taxpayer-backed programs grow 500% over the past decade. In a report from Wendell Potter, a former insurance executive who now advocates for systemic healthcare reform, government programs are now the source
Proportion of Black physicians in U.S. has changed little in 120 years, UCLA research finds Enrique Rivero | April 19, 2021 A new UCLA study finds that the proportion of physicians who are Black in the U.S. has increased by only 4 percentage points over the past 120 years, and that the share of doctors who
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THE MEDICAL CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT AND ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE January 14, 2016 Exhibitions, For All the People, Guests 6 comments Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger Beatrix Hoffman. Dr. Hoffman is Professor of History at Northern Illinois University and guest curator of NLM’s most recent exhibition, For All the People: A Century of Citizen Action
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California Nurses recharge their fight for Medicare For All February 23, 2023 9:51 AM CST BY MARK GRUENBERG Sen. Bernie Sanders campaigns for Medicare for All. | brookings.edu/YouTube screenshot OAKLAND, Calif.—Let’s say this for National Nurses United and its affiliate, the California Nurses Association, in NNU’s home state: When it comes to Medicare For All,
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The Problem With Trauma Culture The focus on all forms of trauma except economic exploitation has helped to disguise the problem at the heart of neoliberalism. Ibrahim Rayintakath for Noema Magazine ESSAYFUTURE OF CAPITALISM BY CATHERINE LIUFEBRUARY 16, 2023 As a species, human beings have always been vulnerable to the shock of an unforeseen violation
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