Friday, August 07, 2020

Tennessee health ranking
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted medical care in countless ways, from postponing elective surgeries to moving many visits online. To shed some light on where people can get quality, affordable care during the current crisis, the personal-finance website WalletHub has released its report on 2020's Best & Worst States for Health Care. In order to determine where Americans receive the highest-quality services at the best prices, WalletHub compared the 50 states and the District of Columbia across 44 key measures of health care cost, accessibility and outcome. The data set ranges from average monthly insurance premium to physicians per capita, to the share of the insured population. Tennessee ranks 33rd in the country in the Average Monthly Insurance Premium It ranks 50th– Dentists per Capita It is 30th in the Physician Medicare-Acceptance Rate 36th in the percentage of Insured Adults 25th in the percentage of Insured Children 47th in the percentage of Adults with No Dental Visit in Past Year


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