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Impact of an Intensive Primary Care Service on Health Services Utilization in a High-Utilizer Patient Population [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: High-utilizer patient populations reflect poor health for those patients and high resource use for health systems. Few studies of high-utilization patient programs found improvements in the intervention groups compared to controls. Setting: Safety net hospital/clinic system in Fort Worth, Texas.

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Towards a Fundamental Unit of Continuity of Care [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

Many proposed methods for measuring continuity utilize an aggregation of patient visits. We modeled the odds of 2019 patient visits being with their PCP using a binomial generalized linear mixed model with a random PCP intercept. These patients had 54% of 2019 visits with their PCP.

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Patient experiences using primary care wait lists in Canada: A qualitative study [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

In 2019, 14.5% Outcome measures: Perspectives and experiences from unattached patients on the utility of the CWL. Four themes were identified during the analysis regarding the utility of CWL: 1) CWL communication, 2) CWL registration, 3) interactions with the CWL, and 4) experiences of attachment and "failed" attachment via the CWL.

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Improving Patient Communication

CDOCS

png]</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:ubuntu">The most successful practices have systems in place that include training in and around patient financing strategies. &ldquo;Presenting link] Dated June 2019. Accessed February 2021.</span></p>

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Are your patients satisfied?

Physician's Practice

Dr. Baum has published a book, The Business Basics of Building and Managing a Healthcare Practice, (Springer 2019), which emphasizes the importance of being involved in the business of a medical practice. Recent Videos Related Content 9 design tweaks to refresh your practice Keith A.

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Drug Pricing Reform Gathers Steam (Part 1): White House Drug Pricing Plan Offers Laundry List of Existing Democrat Priorities

FDA Law Blog

A May 2019 CMS final rule that would have required drug TV advertisements to disclose the WAC of the drug was challenged by a group of pharmaceutical companies and vacated on statutory grounds by the D.C. Medicare negotiation authority; encourage biosimilars and generic drug utilization).