Will you receive a tax credit to help you purchase health insurance?

Posted on May 3, 2015 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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By Healthinsurance.org

This infographic helps Americans determine whether they will be eligible for a health insurance premium subsidy under the Affordable Care Act aka Obamacare.

The infographic accompanies a story by blogger Maggie Mahar, who explains not only how eligibility for health insurance tax credits is determined, but also how much recipients should expect to receive.

The article also includes a chart with federal poverty level (FPL) numbers and links to a Kaiser Family Foundation premium subsidy calculator

Link: Healthinsurance.org

The graphic was created by Mahar, HIO editor Steve Anderson, and designer Barb Etzkorn. It was posted on the Blog of the Health Insurance Resource Center, one of the longest running sources of consumer health insurance information on the Web.

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All healthcare and medical professionals should be aware of the information in this info-graphic; all FAs, too!

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Using mHealth to facilitate end-of-life care

Posted on May 3, 2015 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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By Eric Wicklund

[Editor – mHealthNews]

Last week was National Healthcare Decisions Day (NHDD), “a day devoted to encouraging the completion of advance directives.”

When discussing end-of-life care, it’s a delicate issue that has to be handled carefully – and one in which mHealth can play an important role.

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“There are serious communication challenges around advance care planning and they contribute to the emotional and financial burdens on patients, their families and their caretakers,” Geri Lynn Baumblatt, executive director of patient engagement for Emmi Solutions, said in a press release.

“Empowering people to make decisions about their own care before reaching a point where they can no longer speak for themselves can shift that experience from one of stress and confusion to one where everyone involved including the family and care team is readily prepared to follow the person’s wishes.”

“In a study of ICU patients with terminal conditions, only 12 percent of patients with an advance directive had received input from their physician in its development while another study showed that between 65 and 76 percent of physicians whose patients had an advance directive were not aware that it existed,” Nathan Kottkamp, founder of NHDD, in the release.

“These findings show that there is a huge communication gap between patients and their doctors around end of life care, NHDD’s mission is to help close that gap while Emmi Solutions’ program is a useful tool for doing so.”

For a closer look at how mHealth figures into advance directives, take a look at this infographic from Emmi Solutions.

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