Price Transparency Tools Remain Key for Financial Experience
It’s going to take more than the federal healthcare price transparency tool to revamp the patient financial experience, as patients continue to avoid care because of healthcare affordability...How Lyft Healthcare Changed Lanes to Social Determinants of Health Work
It was 2016, and the leadership at burgeoning rideshare company Lyft was alerted to several tripped fraud wires. What looked like fraudulent ride requests coming out of Utah for trips in New York turned out to be a medical transportation...Patient Demand for Mental Healthcare Surges, Access Barriers Persist
There is a big spike in patient demand for mental healthcare services, as seen in the rising number of mental health visits, yet patients still indicated that significant access barriers exist,...Travel Distance Key Barrier to Abortion, Reproductive Care Access
In a new assessment of reproductive and abortion care access, researchers have found that long travel distance is a leading barrier to care. The study, published in JAMA Network Open by researchers...Which Barriers Block Mental Healthcare Access for Young Adults?
More and more young adults are citing cost and stigma as key mental healthcare access barriers, according to the latest in JAMA Network Open. The study, published as a research note, found that the...Geisinger’s Holistic Maternal Care Model Improves Healthcare Experience
Over the past century, the maternal care model has grown to be somewhat standardized from patient to patient. A birthing person becomes pregnant and has periodic visits with her OBGYN, and once the baby is born, the healthcare experience...Patient Access to Mental Healthcare Challenging for 60% of LGBTQ Kids
Patient access to mental healthcare is still out-of-reach for most LGBTQ youth, with more than half saying they wanted or needed mental healthcare in the past year but were not able to access it,...Women, Black Patients See Longer Emergency Department Wait Times
Women and Black patients with chest pain experienced longer emergency department wait times than their White, male counterparts, new data shows, shining a light on disparities in timely patient access...How Systemic Racism Impacts Patient Access to Mental Healthcare
Despite happening nearly a hundred years ago, the nation is still seeing the impacts of redlining and other forms of systemic racism, with recent data showing that redlining has resulted in present-day...Kansas Nurse Practitioners Gain Full Practice Authority
Kansas is the latest in an expanding number of states giving full practice authority to nurse practitioners (NPs), according to an announcement from Kansas Governor Laura Kelly. The bipartisan bill...New York Legislation Expands Nurse Practitioner Scope of Practice
New York Governor Kathy Hochul recently signed state legislation that will grant nurse practitioners (NPs) a wider scope of practice, eliminating previous barriers that would have limited patient...Northwell Health Center Tackles Black Maternal Health Disparities
Northwell Health, New York’s largest health system, has announced the launch of its Center for Maternal Health to address the rising maternal mortality rate and troubling Black maternal health...Telephone Patient Outreach Messaging More Effective Than Mailers
Healthcare organizations deploying patient outreach messaging for preventive care screenings should consider personalizing those messages to patient preferences and characteristics, concluded a group...Sponsored Article
Aligning the Patient Intake Process to Accelerate Care Delivery
Consumer and provider priorities have continued to evolve over the years and more consistently have started to align at the point-of-service around patient intake. Both patients and providers continue...NYC Initiative Set to Reduce Maternal Health Disparities
New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced new efforts to expand access to maternal health services, targeting care inequities that drive maternal health disparities for Black and Latino families. The...Patient Access to Care Stymied Amid COVID-19 Funding Debate
Patient access to care for COVID-19 hangs in the balance as Congress mulls over extending federal funding for testing and treatment services, according to a recent Kaiser Family Foundation brief...Medicaid Community Health Workers Cut Emergency Department Utilization
Medicaid community health workers facilitated better care access for low-income patients by boosting reliance on outpatient care and decreasing avoidable emergency department utilization, according to...How an FQHC Used Caseworkers for Chronic Disease Management
The Nebraska-based Bluestem Health knew whole-person care that accounts for behavioral health and SDOH would be the key to complex chronic disease management, but in the throes of a nationwide workforce shortage, the federally qualified...Sponsored Article
