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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.

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Navigating Insurance and Healthcare Costs: Tips for Patients

Family Physicians of Greeley

JUNE 16, 2023

Navigating the complexities of insurance and healthcare costs can be overwhelming for patients. Understanding your insurance coverage, managing medical bills, and finding affordable healthcare options are essential for maintaining your health without breaking the bank.

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Have Job-Based Health Coverage at 65? You May Still Want To Sign Up for Medicare

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

When Alyne Diamond fell off a horse in August 2023 and broke her back, her employer-based health plan through UnitedHealthcare covered her emergency care in Aspen, Colorado. It also covered related pain management and physical therapy after she returned home to New York City. The bills totaled more than $100,000.

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Primary care for all Americans

Common Sense Family Doctor

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Increasingly, health insurers, private hospitals, and even nonprofits are behaving as though they aim first to extract revenue, and only second to care for people. We should no longer be debating whether or not having health care insurance is better than not having it. Nevertheless, the U.S.

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Is Dentistry Draining You? 5 Steps to Fight Burnout and Reignite Your Passion

CDOCS

JULY 1, 2024

& & </p> <p>Survey data from the 2023 ADA Council on Communications Trend Report found that more than 40% of dentists felt defeated, wanted to quit dentistry, or did not want to go to work in the six months leading up to the survey, with these feelings being more common in dentists 44 years and younger.&

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Episode 282: Anti-Racism in Medicine Series – Episode 20 – Medical Racism and Indigenous Peoples

The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 3, 2023

[link] CPSolvers: Anti-Racism in Medicine Series Episode 20 – Medical Racism and Indigenous Peoples Show Notes by Sudarshan (“Sud”) Krishnamurthy April 4, 2023 Summary: This episode highlights the checkered past of medicine and the advancements in the field that have occurred at the expense of the humanity of Indigenous peoples.

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An Arm and a Leg: The Prescription Drug Playbook, Part I

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

About 3 in 10 adults reported not taking their medicines as prescribed at some point between July 2022 and July 2023 because of the cost, according to a KFF survey. But — this is all according to a lawsuit filed by Cole’s folks– the pharmacy said his insurance didn’t cover his medicine anymore. He left without it.

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Advanced Pain Management in Cancer: Janet Abrahm

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Have you had difficulty managing a particular type of cancer pain? Janet Abrahm is one of the world’s experts in pain and symptom management for patients with cancer joins us to talk about (among other things): Ketamine for hyperalgesia and allodynia, how to treat dissociative side effects. Summary Transcript Summary. AlexSmithMD.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” Malaz: I love it.

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What Are ‘Improper’ Medicaid Payments, and Are They as High as a Trump Official Said?

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 12, 2025

During an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Russell Vought, the administration’s director of the Office of Management and Budget, framed Medicaid as sagging under the weight of improper payments. “Look, one out of every $5 or $6 in Medicaid [payments] is improper.” billion were improper.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

But as we talked to patients and providers, there was, really, this need for patients who wanted services, like IV antibiotics and IV fluids, but wanted to be able to spend that time at home, with their family, even if it meant it was their last days or weeks. By the year 2000, everyone will be in a Medicare managed care plan.”

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

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

By the time Eric Tennant was diagnosed in 2023 with a rare cancer of the bile ducts, the disease had spread to his bones. 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.

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‘I Am Going Through Hell’: Job Loss, Mental Health, and the Fate of Federal Workers

Physicians News Digest

MARCH 31, 2025

Then, Trump on March 20 issued a memo giving the Office of Personnel Management more power to fire people across agencies. As families are forced to move, neighborhood stability gets upended. Even with insurance, many people wait weeks or months to receive care. Kids see fewer employed role models.

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