How Healthcare Delivery is Changing The face of healthcare is changing in America, somewhat in part due to Affordable Care Act, but the delivery system of healthcare has been inching towards yesteryear for some time now. Yes, I did say yesteryear, do you remember the...
ACOs a New Model of Health Care The Obama administration through the ACA (Affordable Care Act) has commenced a shift from the Medicare model that rewarded hospitals for volume to the new policy that now incentivizes hospitals, doctors, specialists and other healthcare...
The Intended Goal At it’s inception the Affordable Care Act took aim at hospital readmissions, it was and is a significant focal point of the ACA in an effort to ideally better spend health care dollars, improve the quality of care delivered to patients while in...
With the establishment of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), consumers could no longer be denied health coverage due to pre-existing conditions. A 2010 Congressional investigation found that the four biggest for-profit health insurers -- Aetna, Humana, UnitedHealth Group...
With the 2016 Affordable Care Act (ACA) Open Enrollment Period (OEP) well under way, an influential new poll shows that rates of uninsured American are falling. The nation’s third quarter 2015 (Q3 2015) uninsured rates dropped to 11.6 percent, compared to Q4 2013’s...
Technology has certainly become a part of our everyday lives; in fact people today often say they don’t think they could live without their Smartphones. An even further extension of technology was the creation of Smartphone apps, for which there seems to be an endless...
Don’t Let Last Year’s Flu Prevention Failure Keep You From Getting Your Flu Shot This Year If you got a flu shot last year and got seriously ill anyway you weren’t alone, here’s why. Last fall after the flu vaccine had already been created a mutated strain of the Type...
Are You Native American? Did You Know Obamacare is Available To You? The Obama administration is trying to reach out to Native Americans to let them know that they too are covered under the new healthcare law. It is believed that most Native Americans are unaware that...
Two Main Reasons Primary Healthcare is Changing There are numerous factors that are prompting many new changes to the American healthcare system we once knew. Two of the main reasons these changes are occurring so rapidly are the advancements being made in...
A couple in San Francisco had just married and soon after decided to create five embryos, the wife had just been diagnosed with breast cancer and feared chemotherapy treatments would make it impossible for her to have children. The wife survived the cancer, but sadly...
