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. “We keep seeing this in one dataset after another,” Geldsetzer said.

Vaccination 52

Vaccination Illness Hospital Patient-Centered 52

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. And here, just to clarify, we’re using that term to mean, people diagnosed with cancer, not necessarily people who were treated with curative intent. So, among folks ever diagnosed with head and neck cancers, prevalence of substance use disorders was 9%.

Illness 136

Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 136

New South Family Medicine and MedSpa

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

The practice doesn't depend on the insurance company to say whether they will pay for a certain procedure or a particular test, and how much. With the direct primary care model, your insurance is used for what it is intended to cover: catastrophic health events, hospitalizations, specialist care, imaging, and surgery.

Family Medicine 40

Family Medicine DO Family Families 40

GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

And I wonder, now, was this 2024 version sort of a redo? The results were that the chat bots got the diagnoses right and had an escalation strategy that was better than the doctors, as judged by blinded specialists reading the transcripts. Eric: Now, insurance companies are going to want handwritten prior authorizations.

IT 139

IT Electronics Patients Healthcare 139

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

With your journey, with your dad’s journey- Diane: They could have diagnosed him earlier. They could have diagnosed him earlier. So I remember talking with David Reuben and others and say, all right, we need to be a doctor and diagnose exactly the question you ask, Eric. So that’s I think diagnoses.

Patient-Centered 125

Patient-Centered IT Families Family 125

GeriPal

AUGUST 22, 2024

Insurance companies. Eric 11:54 And also lots of other things we don’t even think about too revolve around this life insurance and whether or not how much you can sue your doctor or healthcare providers for depends if the patient’s still alive or if they’re dead. Healthcare provide. Healthcare companies.

IT 113

IT Families Family Patient-Centered 113

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

You can broaden the scope of diagnoses. And in the omnibus bill that was last passed, the waiver was extended through the end of 2024. And CMS is now obligated to report to congress in September of 2024, about a year from now, on their experience with the waiver. It really doesn’t matter all that much.

Hospital 115

Hospital Patient-Centered Supply Chain IT 115