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Health Care Lands in the Emergency Room

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Perspectives in Healthcare Phorum 2015

Doctor Panel Talks Fiscal Consequences of Obamacare, PhysicianShortage

About 30,000 people in Santa Barbara County are newly insured through Medi-Cal since the Affordable Care Act took effect, bringing the total number of recipients to about 106,000, or roughly one fourth of the county. In California, families of four living on $33,465 or less now qualify for the state health-care program, and the amount of people uninsured nationwide has droppedconsiderably.

But how will the government pay for such expanded access? That was one big unanswered question posed last week by a handful of area health officials during a Visiting Nurse & Hospice Care-sponsored forum at the DoubleTreeResort.

One purpose of the Affordable Care Act was to increase preventative treatment, freeing up emergency rooms that have long been bursting at the seams. Since 2012, however, Santa Barbara ER visits have increased by about 1,400 patients every year. Just last year, the ER in Goleta saw a 12-14 percent uptick, and Santa Ynezs hospital ER saw an 11 percenthike.

We are actually busier now than we have been in a long time, said Cottage Executive Vice President Steven Fellows. To accommodate the influx, the hospital took steps toward doubling the number of ER beds with the demolition of its central wing last week; along with other upgrades, the renovations will allow for more than 60,000 visits each year. Goleta and Santa Ynez will also double the size of theirERs.

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Despite the increased volume, wait times for the ER havent changed. On average, a Cottage patient waits 37 minutes to see a doctor (higher than the state and national average) and four hours and 18 minutes before being admitted to hospital (lower than the state and national average), according to ProPublica. Hospitals are required to evaluate everyone who arrives at an emergency room. At that point, we might as well just treat you, Fellowssaid.

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Panel: ACA heightens health care needs

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Also known as Obamacare, the Affordable Care Act will not go away.

So business owners should learn about the law, accept it and work with it or work outside traditional insurance, said three Colorado Springs professionals acutely in tune with the national health care law now in effect.

Dr. Mark Tomasulo, a primary care physician who launched PeakMed Primary Care last year, along with Southern Colorado Economic Forum Director Tatiana Bailey, who has a Ph.D. in public health, and Heidi Cottle, president of Benefit Services Group, owned by National Financial Services, spoke to the local Middle Market Entrepreneurs last week about the controversial law and the convoluted health care system in the U.S.

Tomasulo launched a practice that is more of a direct-pay service with a high-deductible, a monthly service fee, no co-pay and 24-hour access to a physician. He doesnt accept insurance and doesnt mark up the cost of medicine. He left traditional practice because were becoming factory workers, seeing dozens of patients daily without the ability to spend quality time with them, he said.

To have a relationship with our patients we really need to get back to that, Tomasulo said.

Theres a lot of reasons health care is in trouble, said Bailey. One factor is an aging population, she said.

Most 85 percent of the money spent on health care is spent toward the end of life, Bailey said. Health care is not a normal good [like a TV or a phone] from an economic perspective, but we keep treating it that way.

Also, 20 percent of the $3 trillion Americans spend on health care is the administrative cost associated with transmitting payment through insurance companies, Bailey said. The 50 million uninsured people in this country receive health care paid for by people who have insurance.

For their 2015 taxes, some business owners will be required to prove to the Internal Revenue Service that they provide health insurance to their employees, and those employees will have to prove coverage themselves, said Cottle.

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Paris 2012 Presentation – Capacity building and tools – Video

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http:/internationalforum.bmj.com Speakers: a) David Galler, Director of Clinical Leadership, Ko Awatea, Centre for Health System Innovation and Improvement, Counties Manukau District Health...

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StartUp Health NOW #25: Can Entrepreneurs and the FDA Finally Get Along? – Jonathan Javitt – Video

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StartUp Health NOW #25: Can Entrepreneurs and the FDA Finally Get Along? - Jonathan Javitt
Telcare Vice Chairman Founder, Jonathan Javitt explores why the FDA is changing its ways and shares his vast experience pushing healthcare innovation forward with three different Presidential...

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