GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Often the work of the certified driving rehab specialist is to assess the older drivers goals, assess prognosis for driving, and help the family navigate discussions around driving cessation (hmmm…sounds like an approach to family meetings). Were those people self referring, or family members calling you asking? Eric: Yeah.

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Family Families IT Diagnosis 102

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 25, 2025

Nearly seven months after the fatal shooting of an insurance CEO in New York drew widespread attention to health insurers’ practice of denying or delaying doctor-ordered care, the largest U.S. insurers agreed Monday to streamline their often cumbersome preapproval system.

Insurance 52

Insurance Patient-Centered Government Patients 52

Pamela Wible MD

JUNE 19, 2025

Born into a family of physicians who warned her not to pursue medicine. Isn’t it weird that now we’re labeling the majority of doctors with burnout in 2018? I’m not kidding like my first family picture with my parents was when I was 45. You get your own insurance checks. I give you Dr. Pamela Wible.

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Clinic Nurse Practitioner IT Medical 246

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

He was diagnosed as a baby with Prader-Willi syndrome — a rare disorder sparked by a genetic abnormality. Researchers are learning that obesity’s drivers can be environmental, familial, or genetic. ” Until more insurers start reimbursing the cost, the company is providing the drug free of charge to trial participants.

Patient-Centered 52

Patient-Centered Emergency Room Insurance Patients 52

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

By the time Eric Tennant was diagnosed in 2023 with a rare cancer of the bile ducts, the disease had spread to his bones. But that’s when his family began fighting another adversary: their health insurer, which decided the treatment was “not medically necessary,” according to insurance paperwork.

Insurance 52

Insurance Patients Behavioral Health Services Diagnose 52