Finding the right health care plan for you can be a daunting process. When determining your health care needs, don’t forget to include dental services in the overall equation.
4 Tips for When Insurance Doesn’t Cover Your Medication
It’s frustrating when your health insurance won’t cover your medication. Often, a drug appears on a formulary — the list of medications covered by an insurance plan — but then gets dropped. This can happen if a medication is seldom used, there is a generic available, or a more affordable option exists.Whatever the reason, you’re stuck with the full cost despite having coverage for prescribed medications.
Here’s what you can do if your prescription medication is not covered.
Telemedicine Usage Increased for Pediatric Asthma Following COVID-19 Pandemic
More pediatric patients with asthma have been using telemedicine since the COVID-19 pandemic and have been achieving similar outcomes, according to results of a study published in Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: Global. Investigators also found this was particularly true for those with medical complexities and comorbidities, but at their institution, they found Black individuals were less likely to use telemedicine.
Ageism in Health Care is More Common Than You Might Think
“A recent study found that older people spend an average of 21 days a year on medical appointments. Kathleen Hayes can believe it.
Hayes lives in Chicago and has spent a lot of time lately taking her parents, who are both in their 80s, to doctor’s appointments. Her dad has Parkinson’s, and her mom has had a difficult recovery from a bad bout of Covid-19. As she’s sat in, Hayes has noticed some health care workers talk to her parents at top volume, to the point, she says, “that my father said to one, ‘I’m not deaf, you don’t have to yell.”
Opposition to Medicaid Expansion Thaws in an Unexpected Place
“For more than a decade, some Southern states have resisted Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act, even though data suggest it could help their residents. Today, the large majority of uninsured Americans who would gain coverage under Medicaid expansion — and who would benefit from affordable access to care — live in non-expansion states in the South.
But the politics are shifting. North Carolina expanded Medicaid in December, after a years-long lobbying campaign by the state’s Democratic governor and hospital industry persuaded the Republican-controlled legislature to pass a bill. “
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