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The Positive Impact of Direct Primary Care on Employer Healthcare Spending

Plum Health

These models simplify the healthcare business by removing insurance companies from basic primary care. This is because appointments can generally be scheduled at almost any time and wait times at the office are usually shorter. Furthermore, the study provides a snapshot of the sources of health insurance coverage in the United States.

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PC for Patients with Substance Use Disorder: Janet Ho, Sach Kale, Julie Childers

GeriPal

But back in 2019, there was a lot of disagreement in our group about whether for a patient with cancer and cancer related pain and a substance use disorder, whether palliative care was the appropriate specialty to care for those patients. For those individuals, how do you think about that?