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Behind the Smiles: Mental Health in South Korea’s High-Pressure Society

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For example, insurance data reveals that propofol usage in medical institutions rose 12% in a single year, with only 15% of it being used under national health insurance coverage. This experience led me to train formally as a Doctor of Korean Medicine. The implication?

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5 reasons to cultivate strategic business partnerships

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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.

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 1, Part 1)

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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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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 1, Part 3)

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We are all prone to this “wanting to believe,” including me, and as we shall see in healthcare, this need to believe is no respecter of intelligence, level of training, expertise or lack thereof, including one’s ethical level and other qualities. The answer to this question is outside of the physicians training and expertise.

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Therapy by App: A Clinical Psychologist Tries BetterHelp

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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.

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Preface)

Mad in America

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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Context and Care vs. Isolate and Control: An Interview on the Dilemmas of Global Mental Heath with Arthur Kleinman

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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.