Heat-related illness is becoming far more common among privately-insured individuals seeking medical care, according to a FAIR Health analysis provided first to Axios.
Why it matters: While the increasing health risks from climate-change-related heat have been well documented, this analysis offers a glimpse of data from more than 39 billion private health care claims on the matter.
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Among privately insured individuals receiving medical services, the percentage of patients diagnosed with heat exhaustion increased 52.5 percent when comparing June 2016 to June 2021. This was part of a general trend in which, from May to September, the percentage of patients who were diagnosed with heat stress, heat exhaustion or heatstroke was higher in each month in 2021 than in the corresponding month of 2016. These and other findings were reported in a recently released FAIR Health brief, Heat-Related Illness: A Window into Recent Trends.
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A new report from FAIR Health shows that patients of color and providers have an appetite for shared decision-making tools. Shared decision making is a discussion among patients, caregivers and healthcare providers. It balances clinical options and patient preferences to make care decisions.
In 2022, consumers showed strong interest in FAIR Health’s shared decision-making tools and related educational content. These were recently added to FAIR Health’s free, award-winning consumer website, fairhealthconsumer.org. FAIR Health also saw a rise in the share of male users of its site. Other insights into consumer website user demographics and search habits can be found in FAIR Health’s infographic of year-end statistics for 2022.
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