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The role of access to care and health insurance on HPV vaccination among adults aged 18-45years [Screening, prevention, and health promotion]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Purpose To examine the role of health insurance and access to care on human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine initiation among adults aged 18-45 years while also comparing results between younger (18-26years) and older adults (27-45years). Results Overall, there was an increase in the prevalence of HPV vaccination from 2018 to 2019.

Insurance

Insurance Vaccination Screening

The effect of being uninsured on cancer screening practices in Puerto Rico [Social determinants and vulnerable populations]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

One of the largest barriers to preventative cancer screening is inadequate insurance coverage. Although disparities in healthcare access have been well-documented between insured and uninsured populations in the United States, the impact of lack of insurance on screening practices in Puerto Rico has not been well described.

Screening

Screening Insurance Healthcare Individual

Insurers Promise to Speed Up Delays in Health Care Approvals

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 25, 2025

WEDNESDAY, June 25, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Getting approval from your insurance company before a procedure or treatment may soon get a little easier. said this week that several of the nation’s largest health insurers have agreed to change how they handle prior authorization, a system that often causes delays in care. Kennedy Jr.

Insurance

Insurance Patient-Centered Electronics Physicals

Real-world analysis reveals that majority of Americans at high risk of stroke and heart attack remain under-treated

Medical Xpress

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

According to a new study from the Family Heart Foundation, a research and advocacy organization, 72.2% This may be due to a lack of physician prescribing, insurance coverage and patient follow through, despite the known risk of cardiovascular disease.

Insurance

Insurance Management Family Families

Diabetes in Late Life: Nadine Carter, Tamryn Gray, Alex Lee

GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

Our last podcast was with Laura Petrillo in 2018 – 5 years ago seems ancient history – though many of the points still apply today (e.g. So my background clinically is working with cancer patients and families and those who underwent bone marrow transplant, and a lot of times for their treatment regimen, it includes steroids.

Diabetes

Diabetes Management Patient-Centered Family

Neighborhood Poverty and Access to Total Knee Arthroplasty in Maryland [Social determinants and vulnerable populations]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

We examined the independent association between neighborhood poverty, based on DCI quintiles and access to TKAs, adjusting for age, sex, race/ethnicity, insurance type, household median income, preexisting comorbidities, and lifestyle behaviors.

Individual

Individual Insurance Community Healthcare

Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

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.

IT

IT Family Families Diagnosis

Hospice in Prison Part 1: An interview with Michele DiTomas and Keith Knauf

GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

Michele: Yeah, so in May of 2018, there was an article by Suleika Jaouad in the New York Times Magazine, and they spent about two weeks in our hospice with us learning about the work that’s done. Michele: The article was 2018, but I think Bonnie read the article more recently. Eric: How long ago was this? Alex: A few years back.

Family

Family Families IT Community

Medical Cannabis Revisted: A Podcast with David Casarett and Eloise Theisen

GeriPal

OCTOBER 24, 2024

And you could say the same thing about insurance companies. Insurance companies will pay for a lot of drugs that have really not a whole lot of evidence at a lot of costs. But to this day, I haven’t heard of an insurance company that’s willing to cover cannabis. I mean, I had a woman who completely got her life back.

Medical

Medical IT Patient-Centered Healthcare

5 Takeaways From Health Insurers’ New Pledge To Improve Prior Authorization

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

Insurance Patient-Centered Patients Government

Keynote: Finding your bliss—beating physician “burnout”

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.

Clinic

Clinic Nurse Practitioner IT Medical

A Revolutionary Drug for Extreme Hunger Offers Clues to Obesity’s Complexity

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

Researchers are learning that obesity’s drivers can be environmental, familial, or genetic. Since the drug trial started in 2018, some of her adult patients have begun living independently, getting into college, and starting jobs — milestones that once felt impossible. She said the impact she’s seen is life-changing.

Patient-Centered

Patient-Centered Emergency Room Insurance Patients

‘Not Accountable to Anyone’: As Insurers Issue Denials, Some Patients Run Out of Options

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. Health insurers issue millions of denials every year. “They’re, like, not accountable to anyone.”

Insurance

Insurance Patients Behavioral Health Services Diagnose

Primary Care Digest

The role of access to care and health insurance on HPV vaccination among adults aged 18-45years [Screening, prevention, and health promotion]

The effect of being uninsured on cancer screening practices in Puerto Rico [Social determinants and vulnerable populations]

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Insurers Promise to Speed Up Delays in Health Care Approvals

Real-world analysis reveals that majority of Americans at high risk of stroke and heart attack remain under-treated

Diabetes in Late Life: Nadine Carter, Tamryn Gray, Alex Lee

Neighborhood Poverty and Access to Total Knee Arthroplasty in Maryland [Social determinants and vulnerable populations]

Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

Hospice in Prison Part 1: An interview with Michele DiTomas and Keith Knauf

Medical Cannabis Revisted: A Podcast with David Casarett and Eloise Theisen

5 Takeaways From Health Insurers’ New Pledge To Improve Prior Authorization

Keynote: Finding your bliss—beating physician “burnout”

A Revolutionary Drug for Extreme Hunger Offers Clues to Obesity’s Complexity

‘Not Accountable to Anyone’: As Insurers Issue Denials, Some Patients Run Out of Options

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