Speech-Language Pathologists in Lafayette, AL Accepting Medicare
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 Kelly A Tucker, MCD, CCC-SLP Speech-Language Pathologist Medicare: Not Enrolled in Medicare Practice Location: 909 W. Alabama Ave., Lafayette, AL 36862 Phone: 334-757-1490 |
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Hospitals' 'bad debts' grow as even insured patients have trouble paying medical bills
A "local hospital group says the fastest-growing part of what hospitals call 'bad debt' - basically, uncollectible bills - is money owed by patients who have insurance. As employers dump costs onto workers, so now are workers dumping costs onto hospitals. Because of rising deductibles and cost-sharing rules, patients are increasingly faced with bills that would have been unusual for someone with insurance a few years ago. Growing numbers of them can't pay, or won't. Total bad debt grew 12 percent, from $490 million in fiscal 2007 to nearly $550 million in fiscal 2008, at 36 area hospitals that responded to a 2009 survey by the Delaware Valley Healthcare Council of HAP, a hospital association that released the data this week. But bad debt from insured patients grew twice as fast: 28 percent, from $76 million to $97 million."
In the Gulf states rates of heart disease are rising with the economy
Rapid improvement in the socio-economic conditions of the Gulf states has been followed by lifestyle changes now contributing to high rates of cardiovascular disease. Professor Hani Najm, President of the Saudi Heart Association whose annual conference begins 21 February 2011, describes risk factor prevalence rates as "extremely high", particularly in the cities of Saudi Arabia.
Higher COVID-19 risk perception among older American adults
In a new study published on the preprint server medRxiv*, researchers from the Yale Institute for Global Health analyzed the shift in COVID-19 risk perception, behavior, knowledge, and attitude across the U.S. from February to May 2020 by surveying 672 adults.
BMC receives $13.5 million award to test methods for delivering childhood anxiety treatment
Boston Medical Center has been approved for a $13.5 million award by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute to test the efficacy of two different methods of delivering cognitive behavioral therapy - face to face or online - to children with anxiety.
WFP appeals for $5.2m to feed at least 500,000 Malawaians through Dec. 2010
The U.N.'s World Food Programme (WFP) made an international appeal Thursday for $5.2 million to help feed more than half a million people in Malawi through the end of next year, Agence France-Presse reports.
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