Oh, Dana…I’m so sorry, I meant $1700 a year. Wow, lol! I do not serve in the role of a Doula for my clients though, I just use my prior education and knowledge and want to use pregnancy and childbirth as an area of speciality if that makes sense.

Wow! It looks like Volvo Trucks is headquartered on the East Coast – North Carolina and Virginia – so advocates in that area might have the best shot. Of course, if they haven’t gotten responses from locals, it may be an open field. Linda Beck

Great article – thank you. On a related note: I learned recently that Rite-Aid pharmacies have a once-a-month event at which the pharmacist will review all of a patient’s medications (including those not purchased through Rite Aid) at no cost and advise re: potential conflicts, sort out out-dated medications, and answer questions. According to…[Read more]

OMG! That’s worse than medical malpractice! Do you serve as a Doula for your patient advocate clients?

Client Management software: we have list of possibilities others have reported over time on our Tools and Technology Center:

https://myapha.org/centers/business/tools-tech/#tracking

Has any new BCPA’s received new coverage recently? Thi have only found one company to cover me due to having my Doula Certification as well and it’s nearly $1700 a month. Just want to make sure I haven’t missed checking with any companies possibly not mentioned above? Thanks!

This is great!
What do you use for storing client charting and other sensitive material? I have looked at Citirx, but it may be too much for what I need right now. Don’t all files have to be HIPAA compliant?

Hi! My name is Melinda Ferguson. I am a practicing dental hygienist for 16 years now. Although I advocate for my dental patients every day, I realize that I am not necessarily living up to my true potential. After a couple years of quiet soul-searching, I came to the conclusion that patient advocacy is what I am meant to do. In fact, the first…[Read more]

Thanks for your insight on the alternative and complementary modalities – I will have to learn more about them. Like you, I have benefited from Yoga. I have also had success with a naturopath for my own digestive disorder (that causes whole-body symptoms), and mind mastery/energy coaching (which is where I am framing my attitude for approaching…[Read more]

I have used hush mail for over 4 years and been pleased. Good company and responsive customer support. Their site has only hiccuped twice in those 4 years and only for an extremely brief time.

Thank you Kirstin for your response and positive outlook, for that is a perfectly wonderful way of bringing more of the positive, whether it be better health or better relationships, personal and business. As you aptly point out, trust is the beginning for any worthy relationship!

I am also wary of alternative and complementary “medicine”,…[Read more]

This is a great question!

I am learning from my coach: if we focus on the bad, we will only see and attract more bad. If we focus on the good, then we will find and breed more good.

Here’s the mindset I am choosing to adopt around Western Medicine: I start by assuming that healthcare providers entered the profession because they wanted to help…[Read more]

I have met with Raye Willms personally – I wonder if she stumbled onto APHA as a result of our conversation.
I have mixed feelings about Trioova. For now I am going to take the watch-and-wait approach – they are supposed to be launching in July, so they don’t have an established client base yet.

If others have had conversations with Trioova I…[Read more]

Hi Martine!

I actually won a case on appeal using my research for a family who was on vacation in a remote area and Humana said they would cover all but $1200 of the cost.

Then yesterday, apparently Humana and Air Methods (the large air ambulance service that is gobbling up all the smaller entities) got into a tiff—and Humana pulled back their…[Read more]

I have state of Texas HIPAA forms for all family members, including myself with our important family documents. (The middle part is blank to be filled in with the appropriate group requesting HIPAA permissions.)

I ran into HIPAA when I tried to get an online Rx card for my husband from our new insurance group (since we had just signed up and…[Read more]