Healthcare Finance News September 8, 2020
Jeff Lagasse

This has bottom-line impacts for hospitals, especially as they look to recover financially from the worst of the pandemic.

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been empirical and anecdotal reports of declines in both emergency and ambulatory medical visits, but little has been known about why these declines have occurred. New research in the Journal of Internal Medicine now shows a strong association between mental health symptoms and medical care avoidance.

Among a sample of over 73,000 U.S. adults from the Household Pulse Survey — a weekly survey conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau that aims to collect data on the social and economic impacts of COVID-19 — adults who experienced four common symptoms of anxiety and...

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