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14 Years of Obamacare: The ACA’s Impact on Social Determinants of Health and Social Workers’ Role

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The ACA has played a substantial part in reducing racial and ethnic health disparities by broadening access to healthcare services, including mental health services, preventive care, maternity and newborn care, prescription drugs, and treatment for substance-use disorders. Today, 40 states and D.C.

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7 Steps To Prevent Pressure Sores

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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) requires all health facilities in the Medicare program to track and report data reflecting pressure injury development on all clients. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s patient safety tool, Preventing Pressure Ulcers in Hospitals , also provides helpful guidance.

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New Peripartum Depression Study Shows Gap Between Screening and Outcomes

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Our recent study and article aim to bring to light the fact that hospitals need to evaluate their PPD risk assessment process and take appropriate steps to treat patients and provide aftercare in their respective communities. She in fact did have PPD, and sadly, was not treated at all for two years post-delivery.

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Title V and Maternal Mortality: Federal Funding to Save Lives

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Promoting maternal mental health and substance use disorder screening, referral, and treatment. Expanding Medicaid coverage and access to comprehensive and continuous health care for individuals before, during, and after pregnancy, especially for low-income and uninsured patients who face higher risks of poor maternal outcomes.

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UPDATE: Federal Rule to Prevent Surprise Health Care Billing – Application to Clinical Social Workers

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Medicare, Medicaid, TRICARE, Indian Health Service or the Veterans Affairs health system). CSWs who work in settings that provide emergency care (such as hospital emergency departments) where the facility is in-network, but the CSW is OON, are not permitted to balance bill patients beyond in-network cost-sharing amounts.

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What Care Coordination Is and How To Implement It

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Clients with co-occurring mental health and/or substance use disorders, in addition to one or more chronic medical conditions, also benefit from care coordination. Care coordinators work in numerous settings including roles in hospitals and outpatient care facilities.

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What I Learned About Navigating the Mental Health System

Beautiful Voyager

I was entrusted to a mental hospital in Brattleboro, Vermont at age fifteen. This would be the first of many unsuccessful psychiatric hospital stays. I begin looking further into more advanced rehabs, but research has shown me that I couldn’t find one mental rehabilitation center that accepted Medicaid or Medicare in the US.