Articles Tagged With: Medicaid
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Confidential Contraception for Minors Is Harder to Obtain than Ever
About half of U.S. states do not allow minors to obtain contraception without parental approval. For adolescents and teens younger than age 18 years, their only confidential option is to visit a Title X clinic, where a federal ruling from decades ago gives them a right to contraception and privacy. But how does this work in practice? Researchers say that it does not work very well — and it is only getting worse.
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The Pandemic Did Not Affect Single-Visit LARC Insertion
Adolescents who used public insurance and were seeing a non-OB/GYN provider had lower odds of a single-visit placement of long-acting reversible contraception, new research shows.
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Health System’s Case Managers Shorten Length of Stay for Complex Patients
Placing case managers in acute care and ambulatory settings to focus on transitions of complex patients could help shorten length of stay.
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Lawsuits Filed to Restore Women’s Reproductive Rights
South Carolina, Texas, and other states have consistently targeted Planned Parenthood clinics with lawsuits that fail and then are appealed repeatedly.
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Ever-Changing Legal Landscape Leaves Providers, Women, and Lawyers on Edge
Reproductive health lawyers nationwide are trying to help women maintain access to abortion and contraception, but the appeals and lawsuits are unending. Lawyers committed to reproductive health causes have filed lawsuits to maintain people’s access to contraception, reproductive healthcare, and abortion care.
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Navigating Elder Care and Long-Term Care
Elder care in the United States is increasingly a “major source of moral distress in the hospital case management and social work world,” according to Lisa Bednarz, LCSW, CMAC, ACM-SW, ASW-G, regional director of case management for Robert Wood Johnson Barnabas Health.
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More Efficient Social Care Programs Could Improve Screening and Tailor Solutions
Researchers are finding that Accountable Health Communities need greater flexibility in activities geared toward improving patients’ health-related social risks. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services adopted quality metrics for health systems, requiring them to screen for health-related social risks. The authors of a new study found that the model does not allow for the flexibility needed to ensure hospitals sustain the adoption of AHC activities.
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Study: Pharmacist Prescribing of Contraceptives Not Working as Well as Intended
Although 20 states have passed policies to allow pharmacists to prescribe short-acting hormonal contraception, these services are not used much, new research suggests.
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Undiagnosed Diseases Are Common Among Young Trauma Patients
There is a largely untapped opportunity for health systems to identify young adults with chronic diseases before they end up hospitalized for their illness. Trauma, such as car crashes, falls, assaults, and gunshot wounds, can be the entry point to the healthcare system, according to researchers.
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Hospital-at-Home Programs Can Work — Even When the Home Is a Car
A case management-style hospital-at-home program produced $6 million in savings and cut hospitalizations by 53% in one year.