Physician's Weekly

JUNE 24, 2025

Kim Beckham, an insurance agent in Victoria, Texas, had seen friends suffer so badly from shingles that she wanted to receive the first approved shingles vaccine as soon as it became available, even if she had to pay for it out-of-pocket. “I’m sort of hectoring,” she acknowledged. The post Many Older People Embrace Vaccines.

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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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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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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Previous research has shown a pay gap between male and female family physicians (FPs) in Ontario. It is estimated that over 30% of FPs in Ontario provide care in an area of practice other than primary care, some of which are known to have compensation levels much higher than primary care. 95% CI: 14.2 - 18.7) 16.7 - 26.4)

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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.” Everything.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 12, 2025

An “improper” payment refers to payments made erroneously to beneficiaries and their providers or without sufficient documentation. In a 2024 report covering the years 2022, 2023, and 2024, Medicaid’s parent agency — the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services — said the rate was about 5.1%.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

And we would provide ongoing longitudinal care to them in the home, much like the Mount Sinai Visiting Doctors programs, and other programs like that. And the treatments are different than what hospice might provide in the home setting. I trained at Hopkins. We had, since the late seventies, a home-based primary care program.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

Diminished reimbursements from the state-federal health insurance program for those with low incomes or disabilities would further erode hospitals’ ability to stay open and maintain services for their communities — populations with more severe health needs than their urban counterparts. million people becoming uninsured by 2034.

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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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Physicians News Digest

MARCH 31, 2025

As families are forced to move, neighborhood stability gets upended. His friends set up a GoFundMe crowdfunding page to provide a financial cushion for him, his wife, and their four children. Even with insurance, many people wait weeks or months to receive care. Kids see fewer employed role models.

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