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Exploring What Role Patient Advocacy Plays in Bundled Payment Outcomes

Guideway Care

In bundled payment models, patient advocacy plays a pivotal role in improving care coordination, patient satisfaction, and adherence to treatment plans. This blog explores how patient advocacy enhances care quality, addresses social determinants of health, and supports bundled payment success.

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6 Ways ER and Urgent Care Nurses Can Bridge the Gap for Uninsured Patients

Scrubs

These patients face unique challenges, from high medical costs to limited access to necessary treatments. Nurses in these settings play a pivotal role in providing medical care and guiding patients through the complexities of the healthcare system without insurance.

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Retail Clinics’ Growing Role in Health Care and Prescription Drug Sales

Health Populi

As patients continue to morph into health consumers, facing rising out-of-pocket costs for deductibles and coinsurance shares, people are healthcare payers alongside their employers and government sponsors for insurance. For context, check out the third chart I’m sharing here from a recent survey into U.S.

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Meet the New President of the AANP: Stephen A. Ferrara

Minority Nurse

Once I understood the role of nurses and patient advocacy, the ability to share health information and care for people and promote health and wellness, that was my epiphany. And I give kudos to my colleagues who are on units in hospitals. I wanted to see patients on an ambulatory basis.

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THE IMPORTANCE OF PRIOR AUTHORIZATION IN HEALTHCARE

ACMA Blog

Author: Steve Fields, Vice President – Field Access & Reimbursement, Inizio Engage Prior Authorization is a healthcare protocol used by insurers and payers to determine coverage for prescribed medications or services. Patients often face high out-of-pocket costs for advanced medications without insurance coverage.

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Wasted: $1 of Every $4 Spent on Health Care In America

Health Populi

This challenge covers hospital-acquired conditions and adverse events, clinician-related inefficiency, and lack of adoption of preventive care practices like administering vaccines and addressing obesity and hypertension. Pricing failure as a waste-factor accounted for nearly another third of total waste in U.S. health care.