Physician's Weekly

JUNE 18, 2025

Cost-Sharing Program Benefits Patient Rashida Khan, PhD , and colleagues presented a case in which a 56-year-old African American woman with a BMI of 40 kg/m 2 was denied insurance coverage for GLP-1 receptor agonist therapy. Other Persistent Barriers & Potential Solutions In another article not presented at the meeting, Stephanie W.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

DECEMBER 27, 2024

" The Gilded Age of Medicine is Here ," announced the title of a recent New Yorker article about the tactics of private equity firms that provide infusions of cash to struggling hospitals in order to extract hundreds of millions of dollars in profits by slashing costs to the bone and endangering the health of patients. Nevertheless, the U.S.

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Noreta Family Medicine

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Since we are not signed up with any health insurance companies (We charge patients a monthly fee), we don’t have any pressure from insurance companies or healthcare systems to see an unreasonable number of patients per day. A third barrier is that insurance companies often do not pay for nutrition counseling. Have a good week!

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Noreta Family Medicine

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Nowadays, instead of directly charging a patient before they leave the office, most primary care offices file a health insurance claim and the patient may not receive a bill, and the office may not be paid for months or years!). We learned about when insurance was introduced into the healthcare system, first with Medicare, then with HMOs.

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The Direct Doctors Difference

DECEMBER 14, 2021

This recent Wall Street Journal article may have hit the nail on the head. During the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, insurance companies and state & federal regulators really reduced the requirements surrounding telehealth. The rollbacks of telehealth coverage are not helping.

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The Motivated MD

OCTOBER 3, 2024

So, I started listening to podcasts and videos about filing flood insurance and homeowners insurance claims. Unfortunately, this led me down a path of unpaid claims, hurricane horror stories, and insurance company fraud. I would then subsequently file a claim with my homeowners and flood insurance.

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Noreta Family Medicine

JUNE 25, 2024

A few weeks later, I received a letter in the mail from the patient’s insurance company saying that their records indicated that the patient was not taking one of the diabetes medicines in that class, and that they recommended that I prescribe one of those medicines. Insurance companies tend to lag behind current medical research.

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Plum Health

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

In this article, I’ll walk you through why urgent care could be your best option when time is of the essence. Depending on your insurance, an ER visit can cost anywhere from several hundred to several thousand dollars, while an urgent care visit typically costs a fraction of that.

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Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

APRIL 22, 2025

Mandating insurance coverage of vasectomies. SENATE HHS OMNIBUS BILL PROGRESS On the Senate side, the Health and Human Services (HHS) Committee unveiled its omnibus budget bill last week and passed it out of committee to the Finance Committee. The omnibus bill includes many of the MAFP’s priorities.

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Plum Health

OCTOBER 6, 2024

In this article, I want to give you a clearer understanding of what concierge medicine is, why it’s gaining popularity, and how it might be a good fit for you. How Concierge Medicine Works with Insurance Another misconception is that concierge medicine doesn’t work with insurance. What is Concierge Medicine? "A

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The Medical Futurist

MAY 12, 2025

Sometimes, their private visions diverge from their public ones, and this article shares what they won’t admit publicly through four lenses. It also supports their business by automating structured data extraction about therapies and patients from scientific articles and clinical test results.

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Physician's Practice

JUNE 9, 2025

Insurance Denials and Prior Authorizations (00:11:26)** Challenges with insurance coverage, prior authorizations, and evolving insurer policies for GLP-1 prescriptions. Reynolds Published: June 2nd 2025 | Updated: June 2nd 2025 Article Your weekly dose of wisdom from the Physicians Practice experts. Singer, M.D.

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Physician's Practice

JUNE 26, 2025

In just three to five minutes every contributor will introduce themselves, share a signature “pearl” they rely on in daily work or preview the practical themes they will unpack in upcoming articles. Our goal is to humanize expertise while adding fresh energy to your practice.

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Physician's Practice

JUNE 27, 2025

Reynolds Blog Article The small details, like restroom cleanliness, shape patient perceptions and impact healthcare experiences in practices. Please share your stories for a future article at doctorwhiz@gmail.com. Finding and fixing these details doesn’t just solve small problems; it prevents patients from imagining bigger ones.

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The Motivated MD

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Last time, we published an article comparing renting versus purchasing a home. If you wreck your only car, take the money you receive from insurance payout, supplement it with your emergency fund, and purchase an affordable car outright. Here, we worked to highlight how to best calculate the most cost-effective way to acquire housing.

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Physician's Practice

JUNE 20, 2025

Reynolds Blog Article Innovative medical practices thrive by embracing change, prioritizing patient care and learning from setbacks to enhance success and satisfaction. Use whatever methods are available (articles, Webinars, videos, social media, podcasts, etc.) Make an informed decision. Listen and learn.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 3, 2023

Although healthcare services are publicly funded, access to medications depends on private or public insurance and is linked with employment. Alec used Nav’s article to advocate for the renaming of a parking garage on campus that was named after William Osler.

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GeriPal

MAY 5, 2022

If you want to take a deeper dive into this subject and read some of the articles we discussed in the podcast, check out the following: Hearing Loss: Effect on Hospice and Palliative Care Through the Eyes of Practitioners. The use of assistive listening devices like pocket talkers and hearing aids. Transcript. This is Eric Widera.

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

Nadine: I would argue, insurance doesn’t agree, that anyone with diabetes should be on a CGM at least initially for behavior modification. But once again, insurance won’t agree with me, but I do my best to prescribe as many as possible, even for that population. Nadine: I know, taglines for diabetes advice. This is great.

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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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Plum Health

OCTOBER 23, 2024

In this article, we’ll explore what makes primary care essential, how it differs from other types of care, and what you should look for when choosing the best primary care provider in Michigan. Insurance Coverage: Check if the doctor is in-network with your insurance provider to avoid unexpected costs.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 24, 2024

And you could say the same thing about insurance companies. Insurance companies will pay for a lot of drugs that have really not a whole lot of evidence at a lot of costs. But to this day, I haven’t heard of an insurance company that’s willing to cover cannabis. Eric 39:20 Yeah, that was a great article.

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GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

And if you want to learn more about buprenorphine from these amazing palliative care clinicians and others, check out of some of these articles: Learn more about caring for those with substance use disorder: . Article on buprenorphine in the elderly. I always thought this article came out 2011. Transcript. This is Eric Widera.

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GeriPal

MARCH 9, 2023

Stacy: I honestly read Michael Pollan’s New Yorker article and was really inspired, and cold emailed the group at NYU, and they responded. There was an article in New York Times last week about rampant prescribing of psychedelics. Theora shared a wonderful article with us, what was the title again? Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

We got a couple of articles to discuss and a lot of different components of this. Eric: Which brings us to an article. And it kind of lends you to think about also opioid use disorder and substance use disorder in the aging population, because again, you wrote an article in the… Was it Lancet? Jessie: Exactly. Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

Check out the Pub Crawl GeriPal post for more info, and follow #HPMParty on Twitter to keep us as we crawl! ** In the last several years, I’ve seen more and more articles about end-of-life doulas ( like this NY Times article from 2021 ). I’m unsure what they do, how often they’re used, and who pays for their work.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

But if you want to learn more, check out these links: The report by NASEM titled “ The National Imperative to Improve Nursing Home Quality ” The website for the Moving Forward We will also link to the JAGS articles co-authored by seven committee members that focus on specific recommendations of the NASEM report when they get published (stay tuned).

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

Michele: Yeah, so in May of 2018, there was an article by Suleika Jaouad in the New York Times Magazine, and they spent about two weeks in our hospice with us learning about the work that’s done. And so the article focuses on the work of these three men who were mostly gang involved and did something really bad when they were young.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

But that was my take home from Danny’s article. And I just want to also highlight, we’ll have a show note because there is a great JPSM article that he wrote that describes this clinic that he created with his colleagues. Why am I feeling frustrated with this patient? That was my take home. So I love that you brought it up.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

– @AlexSmithMD Here’s a link to an article about the Palliative Story Exchange. ** This podcast is not CME eligible. One of my favorite quotes that we used in our article is one by Toni Morrison where she talks about, you know, narrative creates us at the moment that we’re. It was all covered by my mom’s insurance.

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GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

We also take a dive into these 2 articles that Connie first authored: Palliative care in nursing homes: A qualitative study on referral criteria and implications for research and practice. How to think about primary and specialized palliative care in this setting. The obstacles hindering referrals to palliative care services.

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GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

For example, putting the healthy food at the back of the grocery store is sludge; making an applicant for health insurance climb the flight of stairs to the office – weeding out those less fit – is also sludge. Sludge is apparently when you create barriers or extra work for someone. Prior-auth forms? Alex 25:41 Yeah.

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GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

Because I remember there was an article maybe six months ago in JAGS, maybe it was longer than that, everybody was talking about ChatGPT-3.5, maybe eight or 10 months ago, “Please write a prior authorization to the insurance company. Eric: Now, insurance companies are going to want handwritten prior authorizations.

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Medical Xpress

JUNE 7, 2025

Edwards edited by Gaby Clark , reviewed by Andrew Zinin Gaby Clark scientific editor Meet our editorial team Behind our editorial process Andrew Zinin lead editor Meet our editorial team Behind our editorial process Editors notes This article has been reviewed according to Science Xs editorial process and policies.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

It was designed to really balance what Medicaid at the time was to provide nursing homes and Medicare is obviously health insurance. There have been some fabulous national articles. But, what you need is a community-based game there. Acute care is called acute care for a reason. You go back home.

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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.

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