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Insperity
AUGUST 9, 2018
When the mandates of the Affordable Care Act hit the marketplace in 2013, for example, insurance brokers nationwide were challenged with delivering additional value to their customers to offset rising healthcare costs for employers.
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
Physicians are for the most part trained at the undergraduate and medical school largely in the biophysical sciences such as biology, chemistry, physiology, anatomy and many others, but—unlike a Ph.D. (as in a Ph.D. clinical psychologist degree) is both a practitioner and a research degree.
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Mad in America
APRIL 24, 2024
You write that the way we train physicians, including psychiatrists, makes them blind to patients’ and their families’ illness narratives. Healthcare insurers would much rather pay social workers to do psychotherapy than they would a clinical psychologist or psychiatrist because social workers are a lot cheaper in providing care.
Mad in America
OCTOBER 24, 2024
Hostile reviewers did not debate the science but accused them of being polemical, climate change deniers, extreme, unbalanced, not trained as psychiatrists (the “you are not one of us argument”), or just expressing opinions. 18] Goldney had received “gold” “from a number of pharmaceutical companies.” This is also typical. 21] Smith R.
Mad in America
JANUARY 6, 2024
One advantage of BetterHelp is that because the service does not bill insurance, there is no need for clinicians to provide a diagnosis and target therapy to fit the “medical necessity” requirements imposed by third-party payers. This was conspicuously absent from the BetterHelp sessions.
Mad in America
DECEMBER 11, 2023
First, physicians in their undergraduate courses and medical school take perhaps 90 percent of their courses in the biological and physical sciences (as it should be) but this is not training in how to conduct sound scientific research or to evaluate the research of others.
Mad in America
DECEMBER 4, 2023
Cost & Quality After a twenty year or so review of the health outcome literature, combined with my clinical experience as a psychologist and an arranger of behavioral healthcare for large self-insured employers, the above words of wisdom by Mark Twain are certainly relevant to both the quality and cost problems in healthcare today.
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