If you have completed a healthcare administrative fellowship, when did you have to make a decision by as to whether or not you would accept the position? It looks like decisions come out Nov/Dec depending on the program, but my husband's Match Day isn't until March, so trying to figure out if we would be able to line up decisions or if I would need to wait until the following year to apply after we have moved to his Match location.
Why would someone who is against certain types of treatments/procedures choose to go into a profession that administers those certain treatments/procedures? An analogy: If I was a vegan who chose to work at a grocery store that sells meat, wouldn’t it be weird if I refused to sell the meat to non-vegan customers? Especially after all the training I received on how to sell the meat?
In regards to the new bill SB289 signed by the governor of Arkansas, wouldn’t laws like this give someone the ability to become a pharmacist then all of a sudden that pharmacist claim a religious belief that they are against administering medication of any kind and that pharmacist LEGALLY being safe from losing their job, despite not doing what their job mainly consists of?
Just lookin for a fast way to rid a sunburn got it pretty bad yesterday
I know there is alot of controversy on if/should extremely premature infants be saved, but the question is (regardless of the stance) who gets to legally make that decision. Do parents or doctors make the authoritative decision to attempt to save babies born before the viable age? This age, I believe is 24 weeks. What if the parents and doctors disagree? Who makes the final call?
I am not seeking any medical advice, just clarity.
I am looking at going to a dermatologist regarding my psoriasis. I am paying out of pocket (no insurance) so I have called all the local places to see how much I need to set aside on a consultation appointment to discuss future procedures, treatments, etc. That is it, nothing more. I have called about six different places. All of the places have been able to give me a set cost with no issues except one place.
This place is one I would like to go to because it has a remote location near me if I don't need to drive over an hour and it also has a specific doctor I would like to see (as to why I am looking for clarity and not just ignoring and going to another facility.)
When I called the first time, a receptionist answered (rudely) and told me the cost is between $100-$600 depending on what happens at the appointment such as a biopsy or treatment and I wouldn't know the cost until AFTER I was seen (so I could be charged anything as a consultation fee essentially). I told her it would only be a consultation and I would not be receiving anything. She adamantly and still rudely told me she couldn't tell me a cost. I called again a few days later to see if I could get a different receptionist. I did and was told $87-$600. She stated the same thing as the other woman but when I told her (after several times) I would not be receiving anything and could not understand why the range was so wide, she placed me on a 15 minute hold which eventually led to a voicemail to an unknown extension with no call back.
Can a facility do this? Have such a wide range in cost and wait until after an appointment to tell me the cost? I could not understand how other facilities could tell me a set cost for the appointment but this place cannot.
I am not seeking medical or legal advice, just clarity on the admin side.
Patient is inpatient and specialist that is following his care discontinues a high cost specialty medicine for patient due to medical decision. Specialist notates clearly in chart that medication is to be ended.
Patient is transferred to a short term rehab a few days later likely discharged by a hospitalist.
Patient at rehab facility for two months and rehab continued to give elderly patient the discontinued medication.
How does that ever happen?
what is the difference?
This is kinda complicated, but I would appreciate some advice. The last time I got a vaccine was when I was 5 or 6. I'm almost 21 now and I've been looking to other perspectives. I was raised to believe vaccines are dangerous and to never get one ever. I'm an adult now so I feel I have the responsibility to educate myself on matters that outside my familiarity. I am on the fence when it comes to vaccination, and part of that is from side effects that have affected my family, and my own ingrained fear around vaccines and needles in general. I'm 20, completely healthy. I've been researching the Covid-19 vaccine and the ingredients don't really worry me. My mom told me she would rather die than me receive it, and to wait at least a year to get it to see how long term effects pan out. One of the things she is worried about is that it will make me infertile or cause permanent damage to my health. She say so out of love and wanting to protect me and my family, (so please don't attack in the comments, just looking for an open discussion). How could I approach this? If I did get one, it would be in May, so I have until then to think about it. She sends me some of her "research", which is mainly some kinda doctors and other's videos from Facebook mainly. If I did, I may not tell her until I get married, and have a healthy baby as proof the vaccine didn't hurt me or my fertility. I know the healthcare industry isn't perfect, has flaws, and people have been wronged by it (ie Tuskegee study, AIDS epidemic, Essure, etc.) So I don't think mistrust in the system is unfounded. I just want to be able to view it through the lens of objective truth and make the best decision for myself.
So i cutted some plastic tubes and some leftovers that go into the air after cutting went straight into my nose for 5 minutes should i worry?like i cutted and standed kinda close and the "leftovers"or how are they called and i breathed them for aprox 5 minutes
We're a software based medical diagnosis company based in India. We're looking to enter US market with our product. We take patients biometrics and our algorithms suggest the diagnosis based on it. Recommending Lab tests and doctor consultation are other optional things we do.
Could anyone help me understand whether we fall into the category of software as a medical device (SaMD). And if that is the case, what category out of the class 1,2,3 would we likely fall under?
Does anyone have any experience or suggestions for meeting the criteria for CMS “final rule” on price transparency? Specifically, how does this ruling effect outpatient Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy and Speech Therapy? I thought they were all part of the 70 required ancillary services listed by CMS in the final ruling. I haven’t heard anything about therapy in any of the articles or videos I’ve seen. The CPT codes that a therapist bills depend on what activities the therapist actually performs during treatment which vary for almost every treatment session. There are also 3 different “levels” of evaluation for each discipline (PT, OT, and ST) based on the complexity of the evaluation . This doesn’t even begin to take into account what each patient’s insurance will cover or other factors like co-pays. Has anyone come up with a process that provides an appropriate estimate to give patients prior to their treatment? Any advice would be helpful.
so, me and my cousin was biking in the hills. he told me to go up this hill so we can go super sonic.
we got down the hill safely without injury. so when my cousin was taking a break, i was practicing my wheelies. i did one wheelie and when the front tire landed on the floor, the back wheel bounced back causing in-between my butt cheeks to hurt! its not my hole, just between my buttcheeks hurts.... (not my asshole hurts) and the next day im here typing this with my ass hurt.
is there anything i can do at home to cure this? im just a minor i cant go to the hospital, its the middle of a pandemic
As I understand it, the COVID relief bill that was just passed expanded the subsidization of market plans for people under a certain income level, and under a certain income, the subsidies are for the full price of the plan. If you qualify for that, you're refunded what you've paid so far in premiums for the year.
Over 2/3 of my monthly premiums are currently subsidized by the ACA. I applied to and qualified for these subsidies through the government healthcare website. Will I be notified if I qualify for a refund+higher subsidization, or will I need to apply for it? If so, where can I do that? I don't see any options on my account other than completely reenrolling and hoping for a new eligibility report.
Any direction is helpful. Thanks.
Hey! I've been working on this project to aggregate the new hospital chargemaster data that has been made public this year! The idea is to provide a database to query the costs when trying to dispute a bill and to determine if you are being overcharged. Work in progress. Please give feedback!
It’s been over a month since it started and sometimes it gets really bad, especially if I’ve been talking. What might be wrong? It started a few weeks after Id been straining my voice very hard for a few weeks and I thought it would get better if I avoided taking for a while. It clearly hasn’t.
Just received a $1500 bill for an echocardiogram.
My insurance paid $1300. $2800 for an hour with a rude woman contorting me into uncomfortable positions. Now I have an appointment with the cardiologist that ordered the echocardiogram for him to discuss it with me, where he will charge $200 to interpret the results. The interview will take fifteen minutes and he will suggest another one in six months.
All for a heart murmur that hasn't gotten worse in over ten years.
I am so fed up with the American Healthcare system that the next time someone says "You don't want government run healthcare," I'll remind them we currently have for-profit healthcare, where it may be more profitable to let you die.
Why we Americans still falling for this?
Other than the Milwaukee protocol which has a ~10% success rate, there has been no advancement in the relief of rabies. I couldn't find any research data or projects from the past decade.
This is essentially a disease that turns you into a f*ckin zombie and you're gonna die in a few days if you get it. No treatment at all after symptoms start. Yet nobody really cares.
Seriously, google "cure for rabies" and it basically says "if symptoms start, you're f*cked, and there's really no way to prevent it other than not get bitten".
If this thing mutates to become airborne, all of humanity is screwed.
hello!! i am currently enrolled in a class about health care in the US, and i have an assignment that requires me to interview an individual with medicare. i do not have any connections to anyone with medicare so i was wondering if anyone was able to help me? this assignment is also here for me to have more understanding about medicare in general. it’s just 6 questions and it’ll be anonymous for my assignment! thank you :)
in case someone doesn’t answer in time and is still willing to help me, feel free to let me know if you are up for the interview and i can send a chat! as before, everything remains anonymous including name, what insurance company you’re with, etc.
I was thinking to post this in r/glasses or r/opticians but r/glasses is sort of irrelevant to this post and r/opticians is inactive from what I've seen (also this a repost since the first post got taken does for not containing other in the post title)
I (15F) am getting new prescription glasses but it feels like my eyesight is getting constantly worse and I don't know what to do. my mum's already paid for my new glasses and I got my eyesight checked so recently that I feel like I'm just being paranoid
some extra information would be that I'm short sighted
is there anything I can do about this? is there a better subreddit to post this in? should I express my concerns to the opticians?
It is about COVID19.
Report filed 12/2020 Document # CDC-006-00019 REVISION 6
[https://www.fda.gov/media/134922/download] PAGE 42 “SINCE NO QUANTIFIED VIRUS isolates of the 2019-nCoV WERE AVAILABLE for CDC use AT THE TIME THE TEST WAS DEVELOPED and this study conducted, assays designed for detection of the 2019-nCoV RNA were tested with characterized stocks of in vitro transcribed full length RNA”
I have good health insurance, but it's about $125 each month. I want to see if there's anything else I should be doing, to make my health insurance worth it.
I currently use my health insurance for:
- Annual check-ups
- Annual flu shots
- Annual eye exam
- Birth control pills
By the way, has anyone done or is familiar with "Complete Blood Count," "Comprehensive metabolic panel, " "and "Lipid panel - TSH + free T4 if indicated?" My PCP mentioned about getting this in my last check-up, but she said "it's just to see" and "do it whenever." I wanted to see if anyone feels this labwork is necessary to do?
I'd appreciate any feedback. Thank you!
People have been making a lot of the fact that we've supposedly reached a milestone in covid-19 vaccinations. With the news touting that 100 million people in the US have been vaccinated against the disease.
But if you look at the numbers of fully inoculated people in the US it's only 41 million. That is these are people who have either gotten a single dose of the Johnson and Johnson vaccine or both doses of the other vaccines that require multiple doses. That's only about 12.5% of the US population, with significant variations based on geography. https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=covid+19+number+of+fully+vaccinated+people
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just askin i wanna know since it was somewhere liek 75 last year (110-140 with exercise and 50 sleeping)
also i get abt 125-160 with exercise and 60-70 when sleeping. also yeh im 13. idk i think its almost borderline
I keep feeling a sharp pain sensation in my ear, like a bug is crawling and biting me, but i know it isnt a bug. Any ideas?
Since the pandemic started, many lost their jobs, social life, health, loved ones etc. has anyone been struggling with insomnia? For me, it’s been almost a year since I’ve been able to sleep. I sleep 1 hour daily at most. How can one recover their regular sleeping habits? What other health complications can insomnia provoke?
I am 16 yrs old now and I am completely healthy but I recently foud out why the back of my head is so flat and it seems like I have Brachycephaly. Which I confirmed with my mother because she said I used to sleep on the back of my head when I was a kid and thats why but now I want to know from anyone that have knowledge please tell me if I can fix it and if yes how. Can I even fix this?
Was wondering is there a way for me to stop stuttering I developed a stutter a few months ago (I'm 19) and stutter when I speak for a long time and will this get worse because I'm currently learning Japanese?
Am i safe?i think i am because i know that microwaves dont make any radiation but can it be harmful or smt?the microwave is SHARP brand is it trusted or popular that it is safe
I woke up this morning with a dull ache in my shoulder and forearm. I can still move it and wiggle my fingers. No numbness. I work out 5 days a week. What is it? Could my heart be acting up?
Hey y’all I’m a HS junior and I’m looking to hear some of your stories if any of y’all have faced medical racism and healthcare discrimination. If anyone is interested please pm me and I would like to have a phone interview in the next week or so. Afterwards if you’re comfortable I would like to publish an essay about your story and share it with anyone willing to listen. Also I especially want to hear stories for/ about black women because that’s my focus as being a black girl myself, but if you aren’t black and would like to share your story I would still love to hear it and publish it. Thanks
Her freelance job makes it so that she makes a very small amount of income each year, like less than $3000, and I pay for most of our expenses. Recently her application for Medicaid was rejected due to her identity being unable to be verified. They claimed that she was missing documents even though she sent them everything they asked for - ID, address verification, social security number, etc...
We live together unmarried and I get health insurance through my job so I'm not sure what I can do to help. (Also, does my income have an effect on her eligibility if we're not married?) I find it very confusing looking at the sites of all the different health insurance companies and they all seem to have exceptions to their eligibility. I was hoping that someone who is self-employed could help guide us in the right direction.