Wednesday, September 13, 2017

The Importance Of Social Media In Healthcare Omaha

By Stephen Butler


More folks including both individual adults and families are on their own to provide funding for care. There is a growing trend of being your own freelance business owner, being a contract employee or being employed by a business that does not offer a health insurance benefit. Many people make the mistake of buying price instead of value in a care funding plan. This article provides an overview of options for funding healthcare Omaha, with both advantages and disadvantages of each strategy.

Besides groups like Facebook, email, Twitter, and Instagram, there are groups on social platform sites, themselves. LinkedIn has numerous professional groups on its site, same with Facebook. The groups vary by specialty as there are groups on care professional support, oncology, depression, etc. Such groups often provide forums where you can discuss issues of concern to you as the provider.

Routine Care: Having an ongoing relationship with a medical doctor is important value and can help you avoid much more costly illness and improve your overall health outcome. I am an example of the benefits of routine medical care with the goals of avoiding cardiovascular disease, diabetes and managing my sinus allergies

Diagnostic Tests: Diagnostic tests are an important part of most disease identification, management and treatment and are a large component of care costs. Prescription drugs are approximately 10% of total care spending. Prescription drugs can be a large component of treating a major or chronic illness.

Chronic Illness: A chronic illness is defined by a medical condition lasting a year or more that requires ongoing treatment. Examples are Asthma, Diabetes, Depression and hypertension. Approximately half of all Americans have some kind of chronic aliment. If you have not had a close relative, family or friend with a serious illness or injury, it is hard to imagine the high cost of care. Value in funding care is more than helping with the cost of routine care. Value to me means grappling with the risk of a major illness or injury.

Choices for Funding Care: Cash - Just buy it when you need it and pay what it costs out-of-pocket. The big disadvantage of the "Cash" or what I call the "If we are Lucky Plan..." is that you have no protection of the risk for a major illness or injury. We have over 24% of Texans uninsured for care with a fourth of the uninsured on the "Cash" plan by choice --- about 6% of the entire population.

The advantages of cash includes: Ask for Cash discount from care providers, No Monthly Premium / Fees and Available to all. Disadvantages are: No financial protection from the risk of a major illness or injury, you pay the whole bill for medical treatment. Difficulty in accessing cares without insurance; some care providers may require advance payment.

Not only are the public going to the internet looking for help, but they are also often diagnosing themselves with the information they have access to. Information is the new third party in the exam room. Care providers building their business now have to deal with patients having and using more information. While some information is good, others are not from proven sources. Besides, another challenge is when patients have access to the right information but are using it in an unorthodox manner.




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