Medical economics
Got an unaffordable or incorrect medical bill? Calling your hospital billing office could get you a discount
What do you do when you disagree with or can't afford a medical bill?
Sep 2, 2024
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News tagged with financial assistance
Medical economics
It's worth challenging that troubling medical bill, study finds
Many people who receive a problematic medical bill don't challenge it—but new USC Schaeffer Center research shows they are likely missing out on a chance for financial relief.
Aug 30, 2024
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Long COVID cost the Australian economy about $9.6 billion in 2022: Study
Australian workers living with long COVID cost the economy, on average, about $9.6 billion in 2022, according to a new study published in the Medical Journal of Australia.
Aug 19, 2024
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Oncology & Cancer
Small-town patients face big hurdles as rural hospitals cut cancer care
For rural patients, getting cancer treatment close to home has always been difficult. But in recent years, chemotherapy deserts have expanded across the United States, with 382 rural hospitals halting services from 2014 to ...
Aug 14, 2024
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Health
Report examines Michigan families' experience with food access and assistance, outlines changes for improved support
Each year, hundreds of thousands of Michigan parents worry about whether they can afford to feed their children. Increased food prices, the state's housing crisis, and the end of COVID-era financial support have all led to ...
Aug 8, 2024
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Addiction
Supervised inhalation is a necessary intervention in the drug poisoning crisis
All safe consumption sites should receive government funding for supervised inhalation. This way, the growing number of people who inhale substances will be closer to the help they need in case of drug poisoning. They'll ...
Jul 29, 2024
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Money worries keep depressed Americans from mental health care, study shows
Medical debt is significantly more common among people with a mood disorder, and these money woes can keep them from getting the help they need, a new study says. The study was published July 17 in the journal JAMA Psychiatry.
Jul 22, 2024
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Screening newborns to help fight rare diseases
Early genetic checks being developed by researchers with EU and industry funding will accelerate treatments for illnesses that affect millions of people in Europe.
Jun 27, 2024
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Medical economics
Medical debt affects much of America, but Colorado immigrants are hit especially hard
In February, Norma Brambila's teenage daughter wrote her a letter she now carries in her purse. It is a drawing of a rose, and a note encouraging Brambila to "keep fighting" her sickness and reminding her she'd someday join ...
Apr 9, 2024
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Health
'GoFundMe' has become a health care utility
GoFundMe started as a crowdfunding site for underwriting "ideas and dreams," and, as GoFundMe's co-founders, Andrew Ballester and Brad Damphousse, once put it, "for life's important moments." In the early years, it funded ...
Feb 15, 2024
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