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Telehealth Rollbacks Leave Patients Stranded

The Direct Doctors Difference

During the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, insurance companies and state & federal regulators really reduced the requirements surrounding telehealth. Our practice model is based on the ability to care for patients in ways that insurance companies often do not support. The rollbacks of telehealth coverage are not helping.

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Need to See a Doctor Fast? Here’s How Urgent Care Could Save Your Day

Plum Health

Here are some examples of issues that urgent care is perfect for: Minor burns or cuts that might need stitches Sprains and strains Mild asthma attacks Ear infections Fevers Skin rashes Urinary tract infections (UTIs) Colds and flu For most of these situations, urgent care is a faster and less expensive option than the ER.

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Podcast: AI, innovation, and value-based care in medicine

Permanente Medicine

Our patients stay with us for just a really long time and longer than any other health insurance. And a while ago, there were fires and what we were able to do with our databases was really to identify those at highest risk for an asthma exacerbation under these circumstances. By the way. Khang Nguyen (18:00): It really does.

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Scope This! A Podcast on Gastroesophageal Reflux and Gastritis

PEMBlog

Children with respiratory conditions and chronic lung disease like asthma are more prone to GERD as well. And some other symptoms that you gotta think about in reflux, chronic cough, hoarseness, or even asthma like symptoms. Prematurity and congenital conditions like esophageal atresia also obviously increase the risk.

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An Arm and a Leg: The Prescription Drug Playbook, Part I

Physician's Weekly

In this first installment of a two-part series, “An Arm and a Leg” shares lessons from Bob’s experience navigating a maze of pharmacies and insurance companies to get his daughter the medicine she needs. A few days later, he had a massive asthma attack. He’d have to pay more than 500 dollars.

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Digital Skin Care: Top 8 Dermatology Apps

The Medical Futurist

The company works closely with a continuously growing number of insurance companies in Italy, Germany, the Czech Republic, the UK, in the Netherlands among others, as well as with companies offering this service to their employees. So far, this dermatology app has been used by 3.5 million instances globally by almost 2 million users.

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The association of medical and vaccination history with the development of long COVID [Big data]

Annals of Family Medicine

In logistic regression analysis, odds of developing long COVID was associated more with white race, age 35-64, female sex, obesity, hypertension, asthma, arthritis, asthma, COPD, anxiety, depression, and CFS (all with p<0.05). Study Design and Analysis: Cross-sectional study of adults in the 2022 National Health Interview Survey.