Rideshare companies, like Uber and Lyft, are good additions to the non-emergency medical transportation (NEMT) ecosystem, researchers from the RAND Corporation wrote in a recent report, and are...
As medicine confronts serious care gaps problems, one Georgia-based primary care provider organization is helping patients self-service those lapses. Using online appointment scheduling technologies, Eagles Landing Health is able to let...
Despite a decline in healthcare utilization, patient healthcare costs and out-of-pocket spending has increased for individuals on employer-sponsored health plans due to high prices, according to the...
A medical transportation partnership between Uber Health and the Texas Medicaid program is set to expand access to care to nearly 4.4 million people, helping to address transportation as a leading...
Only one in three patients can boast they’ve never had a bad patient experience with either a provider, hospital, or pharmacy, according to the latest data from Accenture, a troubling sign for a...
Improving patient primary care access may be as simple as connecting that patient with a provider who speaks the same language as them, helping to build stronger patient-provider relationships, instill...
Racial discrimination and implicit bias in medicine is affecting Black and Hispanic patients at rates three- and two-times more often than White people, and it’s coming to serve as a serious care...
The United States ranked last in The Commonwealth Fund’s reported measurements of health equity, access to care, administrative efficiency, and healthcare outcomes compared to ten other wealthy...
Tackling care disparities and social determinants of health calls for policy interventions centered on health equity, economic mobility, access to care, affordable housing, safe learning environments,...
There is a direct connection between social determinants of health (SDOH), like poverty and lack of health insurance, and care access issues and poor health outcomes for HIV patients, according to a...
CMS aims to strengthen health equity efforts, improve patient safety, and expand access to care with its calendar year (CY) 2022 Medicare Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and...
For elderly Mexican Americans living in neighborhoods with low English-speaking proficiency, language isolation can lead to care access issues, poor health outcomes, and higher mortality rates,...
Like nearly every other healthcare organization, the Indiana- and Michigan-based Beacon Health System is eyeing the gaps in care opened during the pandemic carefully. But in addition to the targeted...
New Health Affairs data is leaving researchers urging public health leaders to improve patient education about emergency department utilization.
This comes amidst the backdrop of health payers...
Black and Latino neighborhoods are disproportionately located in pharmacy deserts, according to a Health Affairs study that highlights care access concerns that may compound racial health...
More than 50 percent of Americans view COVID-19 vaccine mandates in educational settings favorably, giving credence to what could be an effective policy lever for supporting COVID-19 vaccine access and...
Removing scope of practice barriers for nurse anesthetists during COVID-19 lead to increased care access, according to a study conducted by the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists (AANA).
CMS...
HHS recently announced that it will help to expand critical access to COVID-19 vaccines among older adults and people with disabilities.
HHS, along with the CDC and the Administration for Community...
New legislation introduced by Elizabeth Warren, Ayanna Pressley, and Barbara Lee, sets out to assert racism a public health crisis and establish an anti-racism center within the Centers for Disease...
A community-based health program at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center targeting both expectant and new mothers has significantly reduced infant mortality rates, according to a new study...
