Don Sapatkin

6 days ago | managedhealthcareexecutive.com | Don Sapatkin

Private insurance plans reimburse for dialysis at far higher rates — some six times higher — than Medicare, research has found. In theory, more revenue per patient can allow centers to pay their physicians, nurses and techs more, enabling them to attract more qualified, competent employees and better maintain their equipment. A 2022 Supreme Court decision that allows commercial insurers to pay beneficiaries much less could lead many privately insured patients to switch to Medicare.

2 weeks ago | mindsitenews.org | Don Sapatkin

Firefighters and Ministers, Too: Mental Health Challenges Know No Boundaries A firefighter with OCD. Ministers with depression. And a recovery advocate worries the Trump administration is gutting his life’s work.

3 weeks ago | mindsitenews.org | Don Sapatkin

Leaked budget document details Trump plans to gut public health and mental health programs The Trump administration wants to eliminate an astonishing number of critical mental health and addiction treatment programs, including infant and early childhood mental health, crisis response grants and Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics, according to a leaked budget document from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) that lays out the planned restructuring of the Department of Health...

3 weeks ago | managedhealthcareexecutive.com | Don Sapatkin

As of February 2025, 99,352 people were on the waiting list for a kidney or liver transplant (the two most common transplanted organs, with kidneys making up the vast majority) in the United States. In 2024, 39,217 received a new organ, and 10,057 were removed from the list because they died waiting or became too sick to receive a transplanted kidney or liver. Clearly, there is a critical shortage of organs available for transplantation. One untapped source is living donors.

4 weeks ago | managedhealthcareexecutive.com | Don Sapatkin

Pediatric oncologists must regularly have some of the hardest conversations in the medical profession with patients and parents: Will the child survive? For how long? Will treatment be painful? Yet they infrequently ask patients and parents about their preferences for receiving information about prognoses before initiating difficult discussions.