If there was ever a time to increase price transparency in the medical industry, now is it. Fortunately, the Trump administration is taking the next step to ensure that patients can know the exact costs of their prescriptions and medical treatments well in advance of care. With direction from the White House, the Center for… Continue reading Price Transparency Guidance Updated by Trump Administration: What it Means for Consumers
Dr. John Oertle, Solidarity HealthShare’s Chief Medical Officer, joined The BS show to discuss brain health awareness month. Read the transcript below or listen to the interview. Bob Sansevere (00:00): We are joined by Dr. John Oertle, the Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer for Solidarity HealthShare at solidarityhealthshare.org. Dr. John, as you well know because… Continue reading Brain Health Starts with Awareness
There is no question that medical insurance providers are out to get the most bang for their buck, profiting off of patients whenever they can. Now a study confirms the misuse of medical coding to rob patients of financial assets. A new study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine reveals that major players in… Continue reading The Sick Get Sicker: United Health Uses Medical Coding To Rake in More
2024 marked North Carolina the most expensive state for healthcare, no doubt due to a widespread lack of transparency in the industry. To combat this ongoing challenge of high costs and behind-the-curtain billing practices, the North Carolina Senate recently passed a comprehensive bill with 44-22 bipartisan approval to increase transparency in health billing. The bill… Continue reading North Carolina Leads the Charge for Price Transparency
We’ve all been told, “You need to maintain a healthy BMI because of (fill in the blank).” But, have you ever asked yourself what determines a healthy BMI? The Center for Disease Control defines BMI as “a calculated measure of weight relative to height.” However, there are a number of considerations that go into this… Continue reading BMI: What’s in a Number Anyway?
Americans of all walks of life suffer from outrageously high healthcare bill costs, but many patients misplace the blame for the steep prices on drug makers, insurers and other middlemen. U.S. hospitals are just as guilty. In 2023, hospitals took in $1.5 trillion in healthcare fees. Since the year 2000, hospital prices have soared by… Continue reading The Inflation of America’s Giant Healthcare Bill
June marks Alzheimer’s and Brain Health Awareness Month, a time to reflect not only on the challenges posed by dementia, but also on the remarkable progress being made to prevent and slow its development.
Couples who struggle with infertility often feel abandoned by the reproductive medicine field, which by-and-large tells them to undergo costly, often unsuccessful, rounds of in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatments to circumvent their underlying health challenges. In Arkansas, couples can breathe a sigh of relief with the passage of the RESTORE Act. Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders… Continue reading The Passage of the RESTORE Act Offers Hope to Arkansas Couples Struggling with Infertility
De-extinction, using genetic technology to bring back to life an extinct species, is now a possibility, and the bioethical questions surrounding this practice are therefore more urgent. Colossal Biosciences made headlines with its “resurrection” of the dire wolf recently after an estimated 10,000 years of extinction. The laboratory used AI-enabled genomic mapping, sophisticated gene-editing techniques, and cloning to create a wolf that is an approximate phenotypical match of the extinct dire wolf.
Solidarity HealthShare President Chris Faddis joins The BS Show to talk about how medical coding is contributing to rising costs of healthcare. Bob Sansevere (00:00): We are joined by Christopher Faddis, co-founder and president of the nonprofit Healthcare Sharing Ministry Solidarity HealthShare, which is an ethical, affordable alternative to traditional health insurance and is faithful… Continue reading Medical Coding to Drive Up Costs? Yup- It’s Happening
