Thứ Ba, 5 tháng 3, 2024

What's the best online school for a BS in healthcare administration?

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Currently a medical assistant. The company I work for has a path on taking higher roles from where I’m at. After working for 3 years with them, I realized I prefer more administrative tasks as a way to recuperate from demanding daily clinical fast paced work. I still want some time to work with patients, but I have felt burnt out Nursing was my original option. I know I could do it and that there are other options than bedside eventually. But, at my current stage in life where I need to work to pay bills and have good insurance so I take care of my plethora of medical issues. Based on this I can’t really work part time and go to nursing school and I’m not ready for any grueling school stuff. That’s when I realized that won’t work for me.

Anyways, I wanted to get a degree that would allow me to work full time too, so it looks a BSHA is a good fit. Just wanted to know if anyone took an online path, and which school u went and how it was.



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Looking for services in California that support private healthcare providers navigating insurance companies & billing

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Hi all,

Long story short, I’ve been working with a fantastic therapist in CA who has recently come into some serious financial trouble.

He is an older gentleman who is not particularly skilled with web interfaces. Due to an increasing number of insurance providers going paperless, subcontracting to other billing services, etc. he has struggled to stay on top of his business. Late last year he employed a 3rd party service to handle his billing.

It appears that this 3rd party (an individual) has reneged on their business arrangement, failing to bill 80+% of his sessions over the past 4 months.

He is now facing eviction and is financially destitute due to losing a majority of his life savings to a scam (there is a trend here). I am working to ensure my insurance company retroactively covers our sessions, but am keenly aware that I am out of my depth.

He has been a positive force in my life, and I hate to see someone working in mental health get absolutely shafted by his inability to keep up with technology and insurance companies terms of service. Yes he has been too trusting, and he accepts responsibility. However I don’t think this sweet old man deserves to end up on the streets.

Any recommendations or resources are appreciated. Thanks!



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Thứ Hai, 4 tháng 3, 2024

How to actually find a provider with Premera Blue Cross?

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I know you can look them up in your area online and ask via phone but I select "General Practitioner" and I get... Well basically everything because they don't seem to sort out the GPs. I'm talking about everything from Hospice to specialty only to Urgent Care.

I've called a couple places where specific providers were listed but they are all booked out.

Honestly it's just frustrating. I just want a GP practice because going to a practice that's also a specialty is going to cost me more.

Also - if a joint care practice (where multiple doctors work) is listed, is it safe to say they are all in my network?

If y'all have any tips on navigating this it would be great. I'm new to US healthcare and so far I want to rip my hair out just a bit.



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NPR News: Cancer is no longer a death sentence, but treatments still have a long way to go

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Cancer is no longer a death sentence, but treatments still have a long way to go
Recently, the US Food and Drug Administration approved a first-of-its-kind cancer therapy to treat aggresive forms of skin cancer. It has us thinking of the long history of cancer. One of the first recorded mentions of cancer appears in an ancient Egyptian text from around 3000 B.C. And although we now know much more about how cancer begins — as a series of mutations in someone's DNA — it's a disease people are still grappling with how to cure cancers today. This episode, cancer epidemiologist Mariana Stern talks about cancer history and treatment today — plus, why some people are more prone to certain cancers and why that might matter for curing them. Want to hear about advances in medicine? Email the show at shortwave@npr.org.

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