Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Intervention: Patient navigation program to specialist treatment from primary care with additional referral to behavioral health services. of patients attended appointments, 19.2% Among new patients, 58.9% were female, 74.4% identified as Black, 79.5% were on Medicaid insurance when diagnosed. Among New Patients, 44.8%

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

A recent review of national diabetes treatment guidelines recommended adjustments to DM to reduce financial strain (eg, selecting lower cost medications), as well as directly intervening in response to an identified social need (eg, referral to a community-based service). Outcome Measure: Themes that emerged from interviews.

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Dr. Zaar

MAY 20, 2025

A virtual hormone consultation combines patients with certified endocrinologists or hormone experts through safe videos or phone appointments. Instead of waiting for months for in-Persen referrals, women can now receive timely assessment and recommendations from the comfort of their homes. What is virtual hormone consultation?

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Noreta Family Medicine

MARCH 26, 2025

Many of our patients have shared how they often felt rushed at their previous primary care doctor’s office, leaving appointments with lingering concerns. For instance, when a patient recently texted us with complaints of shoulder pain after a fall, Dr. Boylan arranged an appointment and ordered an X-ray — all within just a few hours. “

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Dr. Zaar

MAY 20, 2025

Thanks to the rise of virtual care, Canadians can now easily schedule appointments with licensed endocrinologists online. Online endocrinology services offer: Timely Consultations: Say goodbye to long waits for in-person referrals. Convenience: Attend appointments from the comfort of your home, saving both time and travel expenses.

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Hitchcock Family Medicine

AUGUST 26, 2024

Tip 1: Do Research and Obtain Referrals Start your search by asking friends, family, and colleagues for recommendations. Word-of-mouth referrals can provide valuable insights into a doctor's practice, professionalism, and bedside manner. It's important to know whether they offer evening or weekend appointments.

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Hitchcock Family Medicine

DECEMBER 26, 2023

If it's determined that you need more specialized treatment, a referral can be made to a cardiologist. If a patient has severe respiratory issues or disease, they will likely need a referral to a lung specialist. For this reason, it's very important to seek routine appointments with a reputable primary care doctor.

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Dr. Zaar

JUNE 1, 2025

Firsthand referrals often lead to trusted and patient-focused providers. A difficult-to-reach provider could lead to skipped appointments and poorly managed blood sugar. Check Hospital Affiliations and Accessibility Is the doctor affiliated with a reputable hospital or diabetes center?

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Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MARCH 28, 2025

You may need to see a hormone doctor regularly, and in those cases, it’s important to consider how easy it will be to get to your appointments. Ask About Appointment Availability Appointment availability varies from one hormone doctor to another and can have a big impact on your experience as a patient.

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Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Streamline Referrals: Utilize technology like the Hunger Vital Signs tool and the Minnesota Food Helpline to connect patients directly to mobile food units, emergency food programs or Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) enrollment services. Park Nicollet Health Services combines nutrition education with SNAP referrals.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

MARCH 15, 2025

Calling to schedule the next available appointment and taking time off work. In a traditional health care setting, many administrative burdens and barriers stand in the way of patients receiving evidence-based care. Paperwork required to sign up for health insurance and to establish care with a practice. Travel to the doctor’s office.

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Logansport Memorial Hospital

MARCH 4, 2024

To schedule an appointment, call 574-725-3001. A referral from a provider is not required but is recommended. The Logansport Memorial Pain Management Center is now accepting new patients. To learn more, visit www.logansportmemorial.org/pain-management.

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Plum Health

MAY 22, 2023

DPC clinics provide members with: Personalized, preventive care Management of chronic conditions No co-pays or insurance billing Treatment of ailments and illnesses Same-day appointments and no wait times Unlimited appointment lengths 24/7 access to care Exams, labs, and testing Specialist referrals, as necessary And much more.

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Logansport Memorial Hospital

APRIL 16, 2024

Schedule an appointment with your primary care provider. Work with your primary care provider to create a plan that may include: A referral to a neurologist who specializes in functions of the brain. What can you do if you think that you have Parkinson’s?

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Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MARCH 22, 2025

They can offer extra support, like a referral to a diabetes self-management education and support (DSMES) program. Follow up appointments allow your diabetes specialist to monitor your condition and check if your blood sugar is within a healthy level. Ask for More Support, if You Need It Managing diabetes can be hard.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MARCH 14, 2025

Simon, MD, MPH , is Boston’s inaugural Chief Behavioral Health Officer, appointed by Mayor Michelle Wu. He There are a growing number of Child Psychiatric Access Programs, including one in Massachusetts, which provide quick access to psychiatric consultation and facilitates referrals for accessing ongoing behavioral health care.

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Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MARCH 5, 2025

At PACT Endocrinology, a referral isn’t required. To schedule your appointment with Dr. Case, call your desired location today. While primary care providers are trained to manage conditions like diabetes, they rely on endocrinologists to provide more specialized care.

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Blood, Sweat, and Tears

MAY 24, 2022

We booked a follow up appointment and he was on his way home. But I was glad no one needed referral. The phone rang, a referral from a clinic so I left to take the call. They were friends now, talking and chatting. Sister N had cleaned and dressed the toe, his blood pressure had come down post pain medication.

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Tiny Physician

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

There is an increasing trend in the number of medico-legal cases filed against doctors and doctors have started practicing defensive medicine (the ordering of tests, procedures, referrals, or avoidance of high-risk patients or procedures, to reduce medico-legal cases) for the sake of their safety. patients show their frustration at doctors.

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Concierge Choice Physicians

APRIL 23, 2025

Membership is simply an option for those patients who want the assurance they will always see their chosen physician for appointments. No patients are dismissed, and referral networks remain intact. Dr. Condrell launched his program because of the high demand for his attention and support.

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Permanente Medicine

JUNE 3, 2025

When you put in that referral, how do we make sure that that patient walks out with the specialty appointment versus phone tag. They’ll also pen the rheumatology referral. Let’s say you see someone and they have ruptured Achilles and you need to send them to orthopedics, they need surgery.

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Hitchcock Family Medicine

AUGUST 11, 2023

You may see your general practitioner for a referral to someone else, such as a psychologist, for a mental illness. Contact Hitchcock Family Medicine to schedule an appointment today. Comprehensive Care General practitioners provide a wide range of services. When you receive quality care, it's life-saving.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

So delivering those month visits in clinic, often in tandem with their other oncology appointments. We would make referrals to psycho oncology. I would make referrals to Joe as well as part of the team. But that did not limit those clinicians from making referrals, as Vicky was just saying. So it matters.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

So these different standardized measures that patients can complete either right before their appointment or during their appointment right before they see the doctor or something like this, and it’s kind of standardized. Elissa: I want to push back on this a little bit too, if you don’t mind. Eric: Go ahead. Sure, yeah.

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Mental Health Patient-Centered Illness Screening 122

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. Specialty referrals can be reduced or eliminated. Instead, they establish a direct patient-provider relationship, for a flat fee.

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

As you can imagine, get referrals from healthcare workers, emergency departments, primary care, cancer care hospital, you know, internal medicine to our service. And that’s about half of our referrals. And so the attitude isn’t like, you know, oh, like they missed an appointment, like, okay, like this is so annoying.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Should it just be referral to their PMD, who’s all, “Why are these people telling me to do all this stuff all the time?” If the buprenorphine is being prescribed for opioid use disorder, they’re not going to be following… Should they be following that longitudinally? ” Thoughts on that?

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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. And then found out at the appointment; the wife was there, too: and no, it turns out he was still driving. Emmy: But still, driving and mobility is incredibly important for all of us.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

So I get all the referrals from my great colleagues in primary care. And then the family tells me they can’t keep an appointment, they can’t manage their finances. Eric 18:39 Yeah, I do worry a little bit because I recently had a primary care appointment. Well, there’s my complaint. I just had lab tests done.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

On today today’s podcast, we are joined by guest host and UCSF geriatrician Ashwin Kotwal as we welcome Dr. Tisamarie Sherry (Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Office of Behavioral Health, Disability, and Aging Policy (BHDAP) , appointed by the Biden administration).

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Family Medicine Initiative

APRIL 10, 2024

Adherence to medical advice improves and unnecessary self-referrals to other doctors decrease. Because chronic diseases are largely managed in primary care and are therefore the GPs’ daily business: Patients with multimorbidity account for 78% of GP appointments (based on 100,000 UK patients). Over time, more trust develops.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

And now when I think about the clinic at Duke, when we’re really running on all cylinders, we can get ourselves up to a five, six, seven week wait for a new palliative care referral. That’s a lot of appointments that we have to account for over time. I don’t know if we captured where the hospice referral came from.

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GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

And so one of the patients that we mentioned in that article is a gentleman who lived four hours away who was unable to come to chemotherapy appointments because his pain was so debilitating once we gave him not a huge amount of opioids, he was actually able to come get chemotherapy and then live for much longer. What state are they in?

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

After one appointment, the woman who was supposed to schedule me for my next one called me “Sweetie.” They gave me another referral and reported the practice to Medicare. Several years ago, my health plan referred me to an ophthalmologist’s practice. I went home and wrote a complaint letter to my health plan.

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