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Maryland's Primary Care Program: incremental progress or breakthrough?

The Health Policy Exchange

Our residency, formerly a collaboration with Providence Hospital, is now known as the Medstar Health/Georgetown-Washington Hospital Center Family Medicine Residency Program. What hasn't changed is that our family medicine residents remain excited about health policy and advocacy. Phillips, Jr.

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Action Needed to Close Racial Gaps in Autism Services

Physician's Weekly

“Although there has been considerable progress in diagnosing autism in people from minoritized racial and ethnic backgrounds, the autism field must begin to devote more resources and attention to improving services and quality of life for minoritized autistic people,” Diondra Straiton, PhD , tells Physician’s Weekly.

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Hepatitis C Micro-elimination Using Patient Navigation In a Regional Healthcare System [Infectious diseases (not respiratory tract)]

Annals of Family Medicine

Intervention: Patient navigation program to specialist treatment from primary care with additional referral to behavioral health services. were on Medicaid insurance when diagnosed. A particular focus was those falling outside of the traditional birth cohort. Among new patients, 58.9% were female, 74.4%

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How State and Local Agencies on Aging Help Older Adults: Susan DeMarois, Greg Olsen, and Lindsey Yourman

GeriPal

To learn more about what we talked about, check out the following links: Eldercare Locator, a public service of the U.S. Administration on Aging connecting you to services for older adults and their families California’s Master Plan for Aging New York’s Master Plan for Aging Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast.

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‘Not Accountable to Anyone’: As Insurers Issue Denials, Some Patients Run Out of Options

Physician's Weekly

But that’s when his family began fighting another adversary: their health insurer, which decided the treatment was “not medically necessary,” according to insurance paperwork. Health insurers issue millions of denials every year. ” An Unintended Consequence of Health Reform?