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

Family Physicians of St. Joseph

That has placed them in the rare company of becoming one of the Top Fifteen Under 15 businesses in our community. Family Physicians of St. Direct Primary Care is owned and operated by Doctors Michael Eggebrecht, Leanne Mancini, Allison Meadows, and James Gendernalik. Joseph, P.C., Anchored at 147 Peace Boulevard in St.

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Does transitional care management improve outcomes after discharge from the hospital?

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An analysis of Medicare data from 2012 to 2017 found that "using TCM codes was linked to a modest reduction in the number of patients readmitted to the hospital within 30 and 90 days after discharge, with the greatest improvements seen in 2017. More than a decade into the program, it remains uncertain whether TCM actually improves outcomes.

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In asymptomatic severe aortic stenosis, is earlier intervention better?

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A recent editorial in the Journal of the American Heart Association discussed a “paradigm shift” in management of severe aortic stenosis: 69% of Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries who underwent aortic valve replacement from 2012-2019 had TAVI, with the percentage undergoing SAVR falling from 75% in 2012 to just 10% in 2019.

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Identifying and managing gambling-related harms

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Psychology Today maintains a national directory of therapists with training in CBT for gambling disorder. ** This post first appeared on the AFP Community Blog. Effective treatments include referral to self-help groups such as Gamblers Anonymous , group or individual cognitive behavioral therapy , motivational interviewing, and naltrexone.

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Once again, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is in the line of fire

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Nonetheless, its work has often been politically unpopular and unheralded outside of a small community of health services researchers and patient advocates. Sadly, when all medical waste is somebody's income, there is little enthusiasm in the medical-industrial complex or on Capitol Hill in allocating the $3 trillion the U.S.