Patients are relying on Lyft, Uber to travel far distances to medical care
- Date: 10/29/2024
When Lyft driver Tramaine Carr transports seniors and sick patients to hospitals in Atlanta, she feels like both a friend…
When Lyft driver Tramaine Carr transports seniors and sick patients to hospitals in Atlanta, she feels like both a friend…
New study looks at association of transportation insecurity and dialysis treatment outcomes (SACRAMENTO)An estimated 35.5 million Americans have kidney disease…
Access to healthcare is essential for everyone, but it is particularly important for children’s growth and development. Healthcare access improves…
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A new policy that allows states to provide Medicaid health care coverage to incarcerated people at least a month prior…
To cope with seriously excessive offload times at overtaxed ERs that are keeping ambulances off the streets, the city-run Ottawa…
Leading health authorities have increasingly emphasized how non-medical factors such as socioeconomic status, education, employment, housing, food security, and community support have an…
Federal law requires states to provide Medicaid recipients with transportation if they need it. Nonemergency medical transportation providers contract with…
A pillar of the nation’s social safety net since the 1960s, Medicaid is the largest public source of health insurance.…
More than 12.2 million low-income Americans receive coverage under both Medicaid and Medicare due to age or disability. These “dually eligible beneficiaries,” or “duals,” account for…
Among other things, this most recent demonstration waiver provides significant federal funding to New York for health-related social needs (HRSN)…
Since 2001, the Cape Cod Regional Transit Authority has operated a shuttle service from Cape Cod to Boston for residents needing specialty medical appointments. The shuttle picks up passengers at seven stops across the Cape and drops them off directly at their appointments in Boston.
The patients flocked to metro Denver methadone clinics in mid to late summer, five or six to a car. Most…
In rural parts of the state, patients often struggle to simply get to a doctor’s office. It’s something Irena Johnson,…
The House of Representatives on Wednesday unanimously passed a bill — later approved by the Senate — that included a…
CHARLESTON — A new campaign in West Virginia was implemented to end transportation barriers for those seeking treatment for substance…
The “Get Paid to Pay it Forward” campaign aims to tackle the issue of transportation barriers that people seeking treatment…
HOUSTON, Dec. 2, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — Kerico Health Care, a Houston-based provider of door-through-door Non-Emergency Medical Transportation (NEMT), is pleased to announce that its ride…
Dual-eligible Medicare and Medicaid patients would gain access to non-emergency medical transportation (NEMT) under a bipartisan bill sponsored on Sept.…
Continuing its commitment to healthcare equity, Evidation today announced the results of a national survey conducted in partnership with Lyft…
On January 7, 2021, CMS issued a guidance letter to state health officials describing opportunities under Medicaid and the Children’s…
CMS issued a new guidance for state officials looking to roll out social determinants of health strategies for Medicaid and…
The purpose of this State Health Official (SHO) letter is to describe opportunities under Medicaid and CHIP to better address…
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