AI Tools Promise Better Care but Challenge Safety-Net Providers

A physician at a Federally Qualified Health Center talks to a patient while adding notes to her medical record. AI “ambient scribing” technologies are being used by a growing number of health systems to ease the burden on physicians of entering detailed patient visit summaries into electronic health records. Photo: Jessica Brandi Lifland Artificial intelligence…

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Why foreigners without employers’ support pay higher health insurance premiums in South Korea

Policy mandates foreigners pay full average health premium if below national average (Getty Image) Foreign residents in South Korea face an increasing financial burden from health insurance premiums, as their costs continue to rise at a disproportionate rate compared to local subscribers. According to data from South Korea’s health insurance authorities released Friday, the average…

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Legislators debate costs and benefits of anti-obesity insurance mandate that will raise premiums significantly

Even as Colorado faces a $1 billion budget shortfall and bipartisanly declared affordability crisis, legislators are advancing an anti-obesity insurance mandate that will cost Medicaid $139 million to implement and likely raise private insurance premiums significantly. Senate Bill 48, sponsored by Democratic Sen. Dafna Michaelson Jenet of Commerce City, would require that insurers cover a…

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Concord Monitor – Opinion: We must protect the Affordable Care Act for millions

Sandra Hernandez holds a “Don’t Take Away Our Health Care” protest sign outside the U.S. Capitol as the Senate voted on a “Skinny Repeal” of the Affordable Care Act inside on July 27, 2017 in Washington, D.C. The measure did not pass. (Alex Edelman/ZUma Press/TNS) Alex Edelman Jayme H. Simões is a communications professional at Louis…

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Congress must preserve Medicaid funding to safeguard health care

Damond Boatwright  |  Special to the State Journal-Register Some Senate Republicans want changes to House GOP budget plan Some Senate Republicans have expressed concerns over cuts to Medicaid and are demanding changes. Attention across the nation is rightly focused on potential massive and drastic Medicaid cuts under consideration by Congress that would imperil health care…

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