Episode 12 - Lobbying & Legislation: How Laws Affect Healthcare

In Episode 12 hosts Jo O’Hanlon and Dr. Elisha Yaghmai dive into the process of lobbying in the United States and how it plays a role in legislation changes that specifically can affect healthcare options in America.

Hear about the final events that led to legislation being passed finally requiring health insurance providers to cover telemedicine services after Elisha and his team had been fighting for that for 5 years to no avail.

The state legislation they finally got passed in Kansas was the first of its kind in the US, requiring insurance companies to pay for virtual services, and requiring them to not block healthcare providers from becoming certified as a preferred provider on their payer panel just because they were doing telemedicine.

The law finally went into effect in Jan 2019, which helped pave the way for nationwide adoption of the same policies 15 months later as the Covid-19 Pandemic became widespread.

At the end of it all, the biggest lesson learned is that our bureaucratic systems and the parties with the most power in healthcare can and do stand in the way of innovation. Implementing improvements in our healthcare system (or any system) in America shouldn’t be this hard.

Hear all about it in this episode.

Subscribe and get a peak behind the curtain of what really goes on in failing the American Healthcare System.

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Credits:

Dr. Elisha Yaghmai, M.D. - Host, Executive Producer

Jo O'Hanlon - Host, Set Design, Producer

Monica Salmeron - Director, Producer

Ben Laffen - Videographer

Austin Engler - Video Editor

Harmony Marketing - Marketing & Production

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Dear Healthcare, It’s You — A new podcast investigating the broken U.S. Healthcare system.

Why is it failing? How are you getting screwed over? Who is profiting? How can it change?

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