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Risking It All For a New Business Model at Family Physicians of St. Joe

Family Physicians of St. Joseph

Written by Pat Moody on Moody on the Market When it comes to healthcare, and primary care in particular, it has become increasingly difficult to remain successful as a small, independent practice. Direct Primary Care is owned and operated by Doctors Michael Eggebrecht, Leanne Mancini, Allison Meadows, and James Gendernalik.

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MN Legislative Session 2025: Updates on Health Care Bills

Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

The Minnesota Hospital Association, as well as some individual hospitals, testified in support of the bill. The bill addresses Medicare supplement policies and individual health plans , including: Allowing Medicare supplement policies to factor in late enrollment and reenrollment when determining premiums. Read a summary of S.F.

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EMS Intervention to Reduce Falls: Carmen Quatman and Katie Quatman-Yates

GeriPal

Wait, first of all, what’s the incidence of calling EMS for falls over almost a decade, I think like 2007 to 2016, and what happens to people afterwards? All of these are factors that are on the individual level. Eric: So you both published a paper in JAGS, what, 2018, ’19 looking at what happens to people? Eric: Yeah.

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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

GeriPal

Eric: So we’re going to be talking about dementia and considerations around surgery for individuals with dementia. So, that was maybe 20 years ago at this point and it really got me down the road thinking about advance care planning, end-of-life care, and similar consequences. Welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Samir.

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The Future of Geriatrics: A Podcast with Jerry Gurwitz, Ryan Chippendale, and Mike Harper

GeriPal

So the data relating to the number of geriatricians in this country, salaries in comparison to hospitalists or primary care physicians. So I went in Mike’s place for a couple times, and I think the first one was in 2007, and I just remember year after year, ADGAP always talked about, “Oh, the numbers are so bad.

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RCT of PC in ED: Corita Grudzen, Fernanda Bellolio, & Tammie Quest

GeriPal

So I guess the bigger question I’m going to turn to you, Tammie, on this is that we actually had Yale Shanker and Bob Arnold on to talk about primary palliative care intervention and oncology in infusion clinics. No difference in their primary outcome. The primary care intervention did not work well.

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Navigating Insulin Initiation in Type 2 Diabetes: Unraveling the Sociodemographic and Biological Dynamics [Diabetes and endocrine disease]

Annals of Family Medicine

Objective: This study aimed to investigate factors affecting insulin prescription patterns in individuals with T2DM. Study Design and Analysis: A cohort design using routine care data, we utilized Fine and Gray’s survival analysis to examine time-to-insulin initiation while accounting for death as a competing event.

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