Plum Health

OCTOBER 6, 2024

In a typical concierge model, patients pay an annual or monthly fee in exchange for services like longer appointment times, direct communication with their doctor via phone or email, and enhanced preventive care. A rushed fifteen-minute appointment simply wasn’t enough for someone with complex needs.

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Plum Health

MAY 19, 2023

Plum Health DPC has a primary care solution designed just for you: Embrace the Benefits of Direct Primary Care Direct Primary Care is a membership-based healthcare model that emphasizes a direct relationship between patient and doctor. While your insurance covers significant events, DPC takes care of routine healthcare needs affordably.

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Plum Health

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Unlike traditional insurance-based models, DPC eliminates the need for copays, deductibles, and other out-of-pocket costs. Key features of DPC include: Unlimited access to a primary care physician: Patients can see their doctor as often as needed, without worrying about insurance limitations.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Telehealth as an alternative to in-person health appointments gained prominence at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. This concern is in part due to the risk of replacing in-person visits, which are beneficial for building rapport in the mother-infant-provider relationship.

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Doctor On Demand

MARCH 31, 2023

Whether it’s a relationship, a child, a job, or any other worry, we all have to deal with our fair share of challenges. Ask the therapist about their availability and whether they offer evening or weekend appointments. If the therapist doesn’t accept insurance, ask if they offer sliding-scale fees or payment plans.

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The Direct Doctors Difference

AUGUST 9, 2023

No appointments, and no insurance needed.” But, nothing will replace the long term relationship with a doctor who knows you well and is available when you need him or her! According to their site’s tagline, they can “quickly treat common conditions with 24/7 video visits and messaging with a clinician.

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Vida Family Medicine

JUNE 28, 2024

Health insurance covers only very short visits that are limited to 1-2 problems per visit, leaving little time for patients to be able to share all of the relevant information about longstanding symptoms. There are many factors that make it a challenge to get answers for unexplained symptoms.

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Permanente Medicine

MAY 20, 2025

There will be clinician that uses AI to help out their practice, and there will be one that won’t basically, and that is the one that that will really be struggling to search through the database, looking for stuff that perhaps the AI can offload and allow them to actually truly practice meaningful relationship-based medicine.

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GeriPal

MAY 5, 2022

He was an otolaryngologist and epidemiology person too, might have an appointment in geriatrics too. Fast forward, I was doing pediatrics only, basically all day long at Georgetown University, had a random student fellowship, and I ended up at a poster next to Frank Lynn from Hopkins. He is one of those superstars here.

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Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 13, 2025

In today’s fast-paced world, it’s easy to postpone medical appointments until something feels wrong. Regular check-ups are not just routine appointments; they’re essential investments in your future health and well-being.

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Plum Health

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Primary care is about building a relationship with your doctor, so they can monitor your health over time, prevent issues before they become serious, and manage chronic conditions in a more comprehensive way. Insurance Coverage: Check if the doctor is in-network with your insurance provider to avoid unexpected costs.

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Plum Health

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

You can filter by location, specialty, insurance accepted, and even patient reviews. Personal Tip : I often advise my patients to choose a clinic that’s close to work if they’re more likely to need quick appointments during the day, and one closer to home if they prefer after-hours care.

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Hitchcock Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Find Out if They Accept Your Insurance This is one of the most important things to consider before making your decision. You don't want to start this new relationship off on the wrong foot by making an appointment and later finding out that they're not in-network with your insurance company.

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Permanente Medicine

JUNE 3, 2025

Access is so important because that is the reason the patient signs up with health insurance is so that they can get care, whether primary or specialty. We have to get that right or else the patient [is] going to go to a different entity or a different insurance company. WM: I love that we are agnostic to insurance.

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GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

When you think about getting your groceries, going to doctor’s appointments, going to religious services, if that’s important to you. Because how that is approached can have lasting effects on relationships, unfortunately. Emmy: But still, driving and mobility is incredibly important for all of us. Eric: Yeah. Emmy: Yeah.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Panelists Katie Fitzgerald Jones and Jessica Merlin have no relationships to disclose. So, if they have an alcohol use disorder and that’s really impairing their ability to make it to chemotherapy appointments or it’s causing them to have even more mucositis related pain, you need to know about that.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Alex 10:49 And then when you say accountability without termination, that sounds like it speaks to a core principle of palliative care around non abandonment and building relationships. You can tell, are they showing up to oncology appointments, to palliative appointments, are there urine tests as expected? Julia 11:02 Yeah.

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New South Family Medicine and MedSpa

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Providers at New South Family Medicine and MedSpa can address the patient's deeper needs, rather than trying to rush through a hectic day full of too-brief appointments. 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.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 8, 2024

And this seems very basic, but try it with your insurance agent or your pastor, you know, or your banker at 03:00 in the morning. Now, you can’t fix a broken relationship by putting it in this box or that box. You know, but I do go in my own thinking and my own narratives of life and my own relationships with my children.

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GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

maybe eight or 10 months ago, “Please write a prior authorization to the insurance company. The thing just wrote this beautiful, absolutely beautiful, well-constructed prior authorization request to the insurance company. Eric: Now, insurance companies are going to want handwritten prior authorizations. That makes sense.

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Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 6, 2025

Implementing Preventive Care in Your Life Understanding examples of preventive care is only valuable if you actually implement these practices. Implementing Preventive Care in Your Life Understanding examples of preventive care is only valuable if you actually implement these practices.

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