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Maryland's Primary Care Program: incremental progress or breakthrough?

The Health Policy Exchange

CareFirst Blue Cross Blue Shield joined the program in 2020.) With 476 participating primary care practices, MDPCP provides prospective, non-visit based payments known as "care management fees" and operational support from a program management office and Care Transformation Organizations (CTO).

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An Escape Fire for Healthcare

Noreta Family Medicine

Bill Skelton, founder of the Acupuncture Clinic here in Columbia, SC, gave me the film to watch and said he thought that as a Direct Primary Care physician and owner of Noreta Family Medicine, I would appreciate it. Early in the film, family physician Dr. Erin Martin, is featured. minutes long.

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PSA screening: shared decision making is a flawed approach

Common Sense Family Doctor

In early 2020, I accepted an invitation to participate in a live debate with a nationally prominent academic urologist at the annual scientific meeting of the American Society for Men's Health. We Should Be Doing Fewer PSA Tests, But We Are Doing More ," I pleaded in a 2022 Medscape commentary for primary care physicians.

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Pathways to primary care for underserved communities

Common Sense Family Doctor

Most family physicians have at some point heard the old saw "jack of all trades, master of none," which I have come to view as less insulting than is usually intended. The authors term "primary care yield" as the percentage of physicians who start training in primary care and complete it in primary care.