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. Since she was still working, she thought her employer health insurance plan would cover her. This time, though, the insurance coverage wasn’t routine.

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Medical Xpress

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Tis the season to pick your healthcare plan for the upcoming year.

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NPR Health - Shots

JANUARY 13, 2023

Nearly 16 million people have already signed up for health insurance through the Affordable Care Act. 12, 2023.) There are still three more days to sign up. Story aired on ATC on Jan.

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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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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Analysis: This is a secondary analysis of clinician participation and uptake of consultation and training for pediatric mental health in Virginia between 2016-2023. of clinicians received any support by VMAP between 2016-2023. vs. 29.5%, p<0.0001), and have lower proportions of people insured with Medicaid (44.9%

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting or Data Set: Semi-structured interviews conducted with clinicians and staff between February 2021 and August 2023 and video recordings of a subset of WPVs. Study Design and Analysis: Qualitative study using content analysis to analyze interviews and conversation analysis (CA) to analyze videos.

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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 19, 2025

It has already been adopted across healthcare institutions in Hong Kong as well as by multinational health insurer Bupa. FaceHeart also received FDA approval for the heart rate component in 2023. Such a solution negates the need for individual, specialised equipment, thereby expanding access to vital signs monitoring.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 25, 2025

from the French National Health Insurance in Saint-Denis, and colleagues examined the risk of intracranial meningioma associated with oral contraceptives containing desogestrel, levonorgestrel, or levonorgestrel combined with estrogen. Noémie Roland, M.D.,

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Results: Between April 2022 and July 2023, 116 persons navigated through the program, including 78 persons without a prior specialist appointment (New Patients), 15 persons previously engaged with a specialist but not completed treatment. were on Medicaid insurance when diagnosed. Among new patients, 58.9% were female, 74.4%

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Barton Associates

MAY 29, 2025

Despite projected shortages, the overall job outlook for a doctor in the United States is positive— according to the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) , overall employment of physicians is projected to grow 4% between 2023 and 2033, which is as fast as the average for all occupations, healthcare or otherwise.

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Medical Xpress

MARCH 17, 2023

The AADOCR/CADR Annual Meeting & Exhibition took place at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland on March 15-18, 2023.

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Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MAY 27, 2025

Communicating with patients, healthcare providers, and insurance companies to coordinate care. Helping with billing, including preparing bills and processing insurance claims. Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that employment for medical secretaries and administrative assistants will grow by 5% between 2023 and 2033.

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FDA Law Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

17, 2023, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the first-ever conviction of two corporate executives in a criminal prosecution for failure to report a consumer product defect under the CPSA. Then, earlier this year, in April 2023, Gree USA, Inc., See 15 U.S.C. § 2070. Now, fifteen years later, on Nov.

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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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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.

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FDA Law Blog

AUGUST 7, 2023

Participation is encouraged from: Companies Academia Clinical facilities Medical device incubators and accelerators Health insurers Health technology assessment groups Others, including previous participants in the ELP or the FDA’s other site visit programs. One noticeable difference from years past is the option for virtual site visits.

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FDA Law Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2023

11, 2023 ( DOJ Press Release ). 6, 2023 ( DOJ Press Release ). District Court for the Western District of Texas imposed a $275,000 civil penalty on Zarzamora Healthcare LLC, in San Antonio, and its pharmacist-owner. Several weeks later, also based on ability to pay, the U.S.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

He has a passion for both clinical and academic neurology and will be starting neurology residency in the summer of 2023. Neurology DDx Schema John Acquaviva @DrJAStrange John Acquaviva is a fourth-year medical student attending Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine in Erie, Pennsylvania.

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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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FDA Law Blog

JUNE 27, 2024

After issuing an Order to Show Cause and Immediate Suspension of Registration in September 2022, and an administrative hearing in March 2023, DEA adopted the hearing Administrative Law Judge’s (“ALJ’s”) Recommended Decision to revoke Coconut Grove’s registration based on the public interest factors of 21 U.S.C. 823(g)(1). Patient J.C.’s

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FDA Law Blog

MAY 19, 2025

Patients paying cash or a cash equivalent for controlled substance prescriptions, especially when they use insurance to pay for other prescriptions. Patients traveling long distances to the prescriber and/or to the pharmacy.

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FDA Law Blog

MAY 31, 2021

The effective date of this amendment is January 1, 2023. CMS views accumulator programs as a way for PBMs and insurers to siphon off the benefit of manufacturer assistance so that it does not reach the patients for whom it is intended.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Study Design: Observational analysis of linked administrative data Setting or Dataset: Physician billing records (including laboratory tests), prescriptions dispensed, and patient registry data in British Columbia, Canada, accessed via Population Data BC Population Studied: All people ages 20-105 registered for provincial health insurance between April (..)

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FDA Law Blog

MARCH 29, 2023

Richardson — Early on March 29, 2023, FDA announced the landmark approval of Narcan (naloxone hydrochloride) Nasal Spray for use as a nonprescription opioid overdose reversal agent. According to this announcement, FDA approval of RiVive is anticipated in July 2023 and the U.S. By Kalie E. launch would be in early 2024.

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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

Population Studied: We started with 29,620 deliveries at IHC between May 1, 2009, and May 31, 2023. Race, ethnicity, high BMI, insurance, and primigravidity were not independently associated with sPTB. Setting: IHC, Iowa City, IA. We excluded deliveries complicated by known RFs for PTB (n=12,646). CI, 295->999.9).

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 22, 2025

52.1]), after adjusting for income and insurance status. Investigators concluded that social risks were common in adults with IBD, adversely affecting healthcare use and medication adherence. A greater social risk burden was linked to increased odds of unplanned healthcare utilization (severe vs none: OR, 3.5 [1.2-10.2])

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Common Sense Family Doctor

MAY 30, 2025

A 2023 Cochrane for Clinicians article found similar benefits but also noted that for every 10,000 people screened, 363 unnecessary invasive tests are performed.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Despite federal- and state-wide initiatives to boost access to health insurance (e.g., Affordable Care Act Medicaid Expansion and individual health insurance marketplaces), Latinos continue to have the highest uninsured rate of any racial or ethnic group in the United States.

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Today's Hospitalist

JUNE 7, 2025

In guidance released in 2023, the American Society of Anesthesiologists recommended holding a dose on the day of surgery for those taking a daily dose—and a week prior for those on weekly dosing. (If A lot of plans require a prior approval for each dose, and insurance plans are making access really difficult.”

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Data Set Family physician billing and payment data provided by the Ontario Ministry of Health for April 1, 2022, to March 31, 2023. Population Studied All FPs who submitted billings to the Ontario Health Insurance Plan between April 2022 and March 2023.

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Medical Xpress

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The Biden administration announced Tuesday that it's seeing a big uptick in the number of new customers buying private health insurance for 2023 from the Affordable Care Act's marketplace.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

Platkin, a Democrat, began investigating First Choice in 2023. On the same day, the Supreme Court also said a New York court must revisit a case involving religious groups that want to be exempt from a state rule requiring health insurance plans to cover abortion.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Population Studied: Patients 50-80 years old without lung cancer eligible for LCS from April 1, 2021, to December 31, 2023. Factors significantly associated with lower rates included Arab or Middle Eastern descent, Black race, Medicaid insurance, and ADI scores of 4 and 5, indicating higher socioeconomic disadvantage.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Eric and I are working on it…maybe by 2023? . Usually, if the patient doesn’t respond to 300 three times a day, insurance will let you give the pregabalin, because they’re generics now. If we could get insurance approval all the time, I would only use pregabalin, because you know it’s being linearly absorbed.

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Vida Family Medicine

MARCH 1, 2023

This week, February 27-March 5, 2023, marks National Eating Disorder Awareness Week. Project Heal is another fantastic resource that helps patients navigate insurance or get help with the costs for treatment if the patient is uninsured or underinsured.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

You come over to the clinic, you go to the hospital, you provide service, and the insurance and you negotiate how much you’re going to get paid. That never happens in CMS and other health insurance. So we came out with a report in March of 2023, followed it on the heels of a report that we had done in November, 2022.

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