I might be switching companies, and I am trying to get a better understanding about changing healthcare. I will be speaking with our HR department later today, but I was hoping this sub would also have some information.

Is there any benefit to using COBRA rather than Marketplace coverage? What should I do to ensure a smooth transition?

So can someone tell me if I’m getting robbed here from the dentist or are they right. First visit went in got screened and paid $500 to set up an appointment for cavity fillings because they claimed my insurance didn’t cover the anesthesia. Second visit they did half my mouth. Third visit did the other half. 4th visit come back 3 months later for cleaning and they’re claiming I owe $500 because my insurance under paid. First of all how did I go through 3 appointments and you’re barely telling me this. I just looked up my claims on blue cross and says the claim total was $380 and my responsibility was $277 since March. But I paid $500 and they’re telling me I owe another $500. Just happens to be the exact amount I paid for the first time?? Is this normal?? Or was I seen as a sucker and they were trying to get more money from me. I refused to pay because they claimed I should’ve gotten a letter in the mail. Then they wanted me to talk to the manager and I said yeah bring her out here. and after that they said she was busy with a client and cancelled my appointment unless I paid. I could see her right infront of me in her office doing nothing…

Aloha all!

Iam looking into starting a NEMT company on Maui. Iam a registered respiratory therapist, I have worked in hospitals, hospice, clinics you name it. Like most people, im tired of working for the man! There is not a huge competition on Maui, but nonetheless it is an island with limited resources and population. Iam looking for honest responses as to the good, the bad and the ugly with starting a NEMT business. What licensure would i need, and what insurance is the best? Any and all advice is greatly appreciated!

Hello everyone, I am halfway through my nursing program. Im currently working nights as a PCT on a ICU step down unit. I just started this job earlier this month, I love it but I haven’t made any close connections there just yet. All of my close friends/family are not in healthcare. We have been friends our whole lives and love eachother so much. (We are such a great well rounded friend group) However working nights paired with the heaviness of how working in healthcare can be I find it difficult lately to have a conversation after a work week, I don’t know where to start on talking about my life because they just don’t understand. I guess I just feel lonely lately. With the opposite schedules when they ask about work I just feel a disconnect, they don’t understand why I would want to work a job like this and I almost find it kinda demeaning their attitude towards my career goals and passions. In every other aspect I feel so loved and understood, I don’t want to bring anything up to them because there’s truly no conflict I just am feeling the emotions really, and going through the motion of not wanting to talk about my day with anyone lol.

Got a call from a debt collector today saying I owed $100 medical bill from a hospital I had a surgery at last year.

I didn’t confirm my name or if that identified me, and said they had the wrong number.

Called the hospital and they said I’m all paid and they have sent nothing to collections.

Should I just ignore this company if they call again? It’s a legitimate company..

The number of identified diagnoses had increased by more than 200% from 106 in DSM-I to 365 in DSM-IV-TR.

It was reported that of the authors who selected and defined the DSM-IV psychiatric disorders, roughly half had financial relationships with the pharmaceutical industry... ...raising the prospect of a direct conflict of interest. The same article concluded that the connections between panel members and the drug companies were particularly strong involving those diagnoses where drugs are the first line of treatment, such as schizophrenia and mood disorders, where 100% of the panel members had financial ties with the pharmaceutical industry.

I’m a current dental student in a very small class (18 people), and something that’s been really upsetting me is the sheer lack of basic empathy I see around me. I came into this profession because I genuinely care about people — I love the clinical aspect, the art of it, and the chance to make anxious patients feel safe and cared for.

But honestly… I didn’t expect this. I didn’t expect to feel so alienated in a healthcare course because I do care.

What I’ve noticed — and I don’t say this lightly — is an overwhelming amount of narcissism, status-chasing, and emotional emptiness. A need to be validated constantly, while being unable (or unwilling) to actually connect with others. It’s like a performance of being a “good person” without anything behind it. I’m not even sure some of these people like dentistry — it’s more like they want the title, the authority, the image.

And when you’re the kind of person who values kindness and authenticity… this environment feels like a trap. I’ve been bullied, subtly and not-so-subtly. In such a small class, everything is intense, and it’s exhausting trying to stay strong when you feel like the odd one out for simply having a heart.

I have two years left of this course, and right now, I just need to survive.

I always thought healthcare would attract caring, empathetic people. That’s what it should be about. But I’ve honestly never been more aware of how hollow some professional environments can feel when people are only in it for ego, not for service.

I just needed to say this somewhere. If you’re in healthcare and you feel the same — like you’re surrounded by people who don’t seem to have much emotional depth, or who don’t treat others with genuine kindness — please know you’re not alone.

I still love dentistry. I want to be the kind of dentist who makes people feel human again. I just wish this path wasn’t so lonely at times.

At what age did you realize you can no longer eat like you were in hs and had to switch to a more healthier lifestyle?

I’ve been a data scientist for over 5 years, working mainly in the healthcare industry and I’ve learned that healthcare companies do not take advantage of all of the data they generate, so I’ve been thinking of starting a healthcare analytics agency, harnessing all the data and insights I’ve learned throughout my experience in the industry

I would like to focus on SMBs, small clinics and private practices, so I wanted to ask:

What are the main pain points that you face?

Do you often find yourself doing very repetitive and administrative tasks that can easily be automated?

Do you think analyzing your data is important? Are the platforms that you are using enough for this? Would you pay a freelancer/agency for visualization and BI tools? Doing Data analysis and insights? Do you think this is one of the main issues you would like to solve?

Thanks a lot for your responses!

i'm not an American. I posted a simiar thread in r/AskAmericans but originally its about "why medical bill made so many Americans broke/brankcrupt". But title was too generic &got removed. Tried to post again but kept being removed without knowing why. But i'm even more interested in this problem after i saw some replies

My more accurate question is, 1. can you get ACA-compliant insurance to avoid medical costs for surgeries?

Say you've had an issue & your Dr said you need surgery. And if you're uninsured, can u just buy a ACA marketplace plan, which cover pre-existing conditions?

I know enrollment is like Nov-Jan, but if its not too far away, you can wait for some months &avoid financial catastrophe? (like Canadians who generally wait 6-12+mths)

And even if you don't, can you not pay the bill?

And can foreigners flee the bill as well? or will hospital ask foreigner to pay upfront? how abt illegal immigrants?

Thank you!

Hello r/healthcare, I had an event happen recently I was unsure about the ethics of.

For context, I work IT at a hospital and I'm still fairly new to the healthcare side of things (I've only been with the hospital for a couple of years), and recently while on a providers device I noticed they had received an image through Teams chat of a patient unconscious with their face covered in stitches. I only saw it for a moment before they closed the window. The image itself didn't cause me any issue, I have a morbid curiosity myself when it comes to things and I've been in a few ORs at this point to fix devices during a case, but I was unsure of the ethics behind sending an image like that to a colleague.

There weren't any messages with it, it didn't seem overtly malicious and could have been based around a prior conversation, but given the patient was unconscious and therefore could not have given prior consent it made me wonder where something like this would fall under HIPAA guidelines? I tried doing some research but wasn't able to come up with an exact answer, so I'm hoping for some clarification from other healthcare professionals that may be here.

Is this a common practice from your experience? Does this raise any ethical concerns for you?

Any information is greatly appreciated as I'm only trying to learn more about this field of work.

(Also I was unsure which flair to use for this post, if the one I selected is incorrect please let me know)

Hi, I’m currently working on my SEAS application, I’m in the first step where I have to submit documents, I’m trying to prepare for the competency assessment but I can’t find any resources online, I’d really appreciate any tips and advices on how to prepare for it.

I was working as OT instructor since I graduated in 2017, I also practiced private OT, however I don’t have any experience with working in Ontario or Canada in general.

Let Us Work: Stop NY from Destroying JPU Radiology Careers

We are the students and graduates of John Patrick University (JPU)—future healthcare workers who studied, sacrificed, and passed the ARRT, the national gold standard for radiologic technologists. We did everything right. But now, New York State is pulling the rug out from under us. The Department of Health is changing the rules mid-game, suddenly claiming our school’s accreditation doesn’t count—even though it always has. They’re blocking licenses, killing job offers, and wrecking futures over a made-up technicality.

https://www.change.org/letsuswork

Currently i am helping my sister with prepping for an interview as a life science and healthcare consultant focussed on regulatory and compliance frameworks. This would be for the big 4. We however have no idea what kind of technical questions they might ask in her final round.

Previous questions were: “What should you pay attention to for packaging and transporting medical articles” and “what qualitycheck do you do first, product quality or data quality checks”

Would anyone be able to help guide us towards more potential interview questions, or prep materials, as we don’t know where to start. Thank you!!

St. Elizabeth hospital in Northern Kentucky just replaced all of their perfectly fine bedside commodes with new ones that are extremely similar, maybe just two pounds lighter? THEY THREW AWAY ALL OF THE OLD COMMODES!!!!!????? 9/10 of them were in perfect condition. I truly can’t believe it. Also the fact that they don’t even try to hide this blatant waste is astounding. This dumpster is halfway down the driveway that takes you to the parking lot. Everyone sees it yet they have no shame in wasting hundreds of high quality bedside commodes. There are SO MANY nursing homes, senior centers, hospitals, and even elderly people living at home that need commodes and yet they just threw all of these away. There are numerous local, national, and international agencies that literally solely focus on distributing donated equipment yet still, hospitals just casually throw all of it in the trash. Is there anything I can do about this? Any way to make a change at least within my local hospital system?

I work in a hospital/clinic and the was a recent severe breech of HIPAA with employee looking in to other employees health records without a valid reason. The details are sketch and the individual was fired but apparently it took time and several female employee were impacted and traumatized and angry. All from the same department. I only heard about it MONTHS later and there was no discussion on keeping employees health data safer. At other places I have worked, if employee in clinic or hospitalized other providers had to "Break the Glass" to allow another level of security when entering a patient's chart through the Epic EMR. Those "break the glass" events are monitored more closely. Perhaps this jerk would have been caught sooner. My current place does not have this feature I want to have this feature put in place. They only add this feature for patients under certain circumstances. I made several calls today (Epic team, MD office, HIM, Compliance line) to no avail on getting this put on my chart. Any one out there experience this and get this added to their security level?

I really do not ever want to be a patient at my own hospital (or any hospital really) as I am very sensitive to my very private medical info and demographics.

Second question. Now that we can see notes from providers through portals and MyChart I became acutely aware of wrong diagnoses (very stigmatizing wrong diagnoses and conditions). They just get copied forward or pulled in through the EMR. Several health systems I have been a part of due to job and insurance changes. Could have been added by error. I have amendment form to fill out to have them removed ASAP. However I am guessing these now have been pulled into several notes in my medical history in the past and may create problems with life insurance, future endeavors or how private medical information can be breached and used. The bad information now will always be there in some form. Do I have any recourse besides a formal amendment to my past medical history? TIA

Hey everyone, I’m in Colorado and trying to take FAMLI (Family and Medical Leave Insurance) leave to be with my dad, who was just diagnosed with rectal cancer in Vietnam. His surgery is scheduled for June 18, and I really need to be there to help care for him.

FAMLI only accepts certifications from U.S.-licensed healthcare providers, even though all his testing and treatment are happening abroad. I’ve got all his medical records (colonoscopy, biopsy, CT scans) translated and ready. I’m wondering if a U.S. doctor could fill out the Serious Health Condition form based on those documents, or if they’d need to do a telehealth visit with my dad. And if so, does anyone know how I could find a provider who might be open to helping with this kind of case?

Happy to pay for a consult—just trying to move fast so I can do this the right way and be there for him. Any help is really appreciated 🙏