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As healthcare providers, we want to help keep our patients educated about their own well-being. On our news page here, we’ll share what’s new at Sartell Family Medicine, but also relevant links to news and healthcare articles from credible sources around the web.
Expert: Hospitals’ ‘Humongous Monopoly’ Drives Prices High
Kaiser Health News / March 4, 2014 The American Enterprise Institute didn’t plan its panel last week on hospital consolidation to coincide with Steve Brill’s much-talked-about Time magazine article on hospital prices. But the Friday session could have taken the piece,...
The Mystery of Medical Insurance Coverage
MD Whistleblower / March 31, 2019 “Does my insurance cover this?” I cannot calculate how often a patient poses this inquiry to me assuming wrongly that I have expertise in the insurance and reimbursement aspects of medicine. If I – a gastroenterologist – do not even...
Even with health insurance, people are literally sacrificing food to pay for healthcare
Fast Company / May 2, 2019 A new Kaiser Family Foundation report offers a bleak outlook on the state of employer-based healthcare in America. The findings show that people are emptying their savings, taking on second jobs, borrowing from friends and family, and even...
Policymakers: Put down your carrots and sticks. They will not work.
W. Ryan Neuhofel, DO, MPH via KevinMD / April 5, 2019 As a family physician in the trenches, I routinely see blatantly poor medical care in the history of my new patients. Far too many people get unwarranted medications and tests, while important things go...
Hospitals, insurers battle over surprise medical bills
Fox Business / March 21, 2019 A battle is breaking out within the health care industry Opens a New Window. as Congress Opens a New Window. intensifies its efforts to address surprise medical bills, one that comes after urging from President Donald Trump Opens a New...
Preventive health is the key improving our health outcomes
The Hill / March 16, 2019 During the 20th century, America’s commitment to preventive health efforts such as water purification and vaccinations all but eradicated many deadly illnesses and, in the process, extended the average life expectancy by three decades, from...
Americans Are Going Bankrupt From Getting Sick
The Atlantic / March 15, 2019 In April 2016, Venus Lockett was about to give a speech at an event she volunteered for near her home in Atlanta. She was already stressed. The previous night, she had stayed up late making her presentation, and then deleted it by...
From urgent care to pharmacists, the struggle to get my kids antibiotics drove me to tears
USA Today / March 13, 2019 Early one recent Sunday morning, my kids woke up not feeling well. Due to a health notice from their school, I knew I needed to get them to urgent care for medicine right away or they wouldn’t be allowed to go to school the next day. I am a...
Medical Expenses Could Cause You Financial Ruin — But Few Prepare For Them
MarketWatch 2/12/19 Health can destroy wealth. More than two in three bankruptcies are caused by medical problems, either from bills, income loss due to illness, or both, according to new data in the American Journal of Public Health from more than 900 Americans who...
Nearly half of Americans have heart disease, study says
USA Today 2/1/19 Nearly half of U.S. adults deal with some form of cardiovascular disease, said a new study, driven largely by changes in guidelines for classifying high blood pressure. According to the study from the American Heart Association, 121.5 million...
Welcome Week – Jan 28th to Feb 1st 2019
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15 minutes aren’t enough for a primary care visit
DrizzleMD (posted to KevinMD.com) 1/9/18 Have you bought a new memory foam mattress recently? Many come vacuumed in shrink bags. Once air gets in the bag, the mattress expands to its normal size. It is fascinating to watch how they expand. It is not so fascinating to...
Hospitals required to post all prices online beginning January 1
Associated Press / December 21, 2018 Medicare will require hospitals to post their standard prices online and make electronic medical records more readily available to patients, officials said Tuesday. The program is also starting a comprehensive review of how it will...
Kaiser study finds employee health insurance deductibles rise 4.5 percent
CNBC / October 3, 2018 While wages for many may finally be edging higher, health costs are growing a whole lot faster. As 2019 open enrollment season begins, most workers who have employer health plans will see moderate increases in premiums and deductibles, but it...
Primary care does what Google can’t
A Country Doctor Writes Non-clinicians skip over some of the most necessary underpinnings of doctoring and speak too much about housekeeping issues: blood pressure targets, aspirin use, mass screenings, immunization rates and so on. People without medical degrees...
Anthem among health insurers refusing to pay ER bills, doctors say
On Aug., 1, 2017, Brittany Cloyd of Frankfort, Kentucky, said she experienced pain "worse than childbirth." Her mother -- who had been to nursing school -- drove her to the nearest emergency room. Brittany thought her appendix had burst, but tests at the ER found she...
Physician burnout in small practices is dramatically lower than national average
NYU LANGONE HEALTH / NYU SCHOOL OF MEDICINE 7/9/18 Physicians who work in small, independent primary care practices--also known as SIPs--report dramatically lower levels of burnout than the national average (13.5 percent versus 54.4 percent), according to a study led...
A relentless focus on primary care: probably the single biggest thing we can do in healthcare
Suneel Dhand 6/19/18 There are so many theories out there about what we should or shouldn’t be doing with our complex and fragmented healthcare system. We are facing a perfect storm of factors: an ageing population, a huge increase in chronic disease, new and...
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