Physician's Weekly

JUNE 25, 2025

Insurance companies have promised changes like these before, in 2018 and 2023, but many didn’t follow through, Dr. Mehmet Oz , head of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), said. By 2027, at least 80% of electronic prior authorization requests will be answered in real time, and the process will be easier to do online.

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Aspiring Minority Doctor

DECEMBER 8, 2021

This year, I started using the CariPro electronic toothbrush and my mouth definitely feels cleaner. I've bought candles for pretty much everyone in my family and I love the personalized candles and being able to customize the label to each person. Plus they smell amazing!

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends discussing family planning and preconception counseling at the domestic medical exam (DME), yet there is little guidance on specific counseling needs in this population. Population Studied Inclusion criteria were ages 16-45 with a DME performed between 2018 and 2023.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting or Dataset: American Family Cohort, a data asset including electronic health records of 8 million patients from family practices across 50 US states. Population Studied: Patients with ≥1 visit between January 2018 and December 2019 and who remained in the cohort until at least May 2020. Measurements.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The exposure was COVID-19 era (pre = March 10, 2018-March 10, 2020; during = March 11, 2020-March 11, 2022). Setting: Electronic Medical Record data from primary care clinics in the University of Toronto Practice Based-Research Network Data Safe Haven and Northern Ontario School of Medicine Research Toward Health Hub (Ontario, Canada).

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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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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

So my family is from Maui and were impacted by the wildfires, so I really appreciate this. Alex: How is your family doing? My family’s also from Maui. And her dad’s family, the Makekaus family, which is based in Lahaina, and we actually visited their grave sites there, when we were there a few years ago.

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GeriPal

JULY 13, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Today’s podcast is a follow up to our 2018 podcast with Randy Curtis about the Jumpstart intervention. ” And I saw Randy run family meetings before I knew he was famous, before I knew he was this legendary researcher. And he was just such a great doctor and such a great advocate for families.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

And so this is our way of supporting non English speaking families in advanced care planning. And I have a long interest in identifying family caregivers and supporting them in care delivery. And so this was really, in my view, a perfect window for reinforcing the role of family in primary care. Eric 02:32 Great, Alex.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

We see our patients and our families throughout the illness trajectory into the hospital. And so the definition of advance care planning really switched in, I think, 2017, 2018, there was kind of a United States definition and then an international consensus definition. It’s hard for your family to know. [laughter].

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 25, 2025

They will require insurers to respond to requests within seven days or 72 hours, depending on their urgency, and to process prior authorization requests electronically, instead of by phone or fax, among other changes. He noted that health insurers made “past promises” to improve prior authorization in 2018.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

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. When the Tennant family was told histotripsy would cost $50,000 and insurance wouldn’t cover it, they appealed the denial four times.

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