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What to Expect During a Primary Care Visit

Mesa Family Physician

JUNE 16, 2025

This blog covers everything you need to know—from appointment types and coding to telehealth options and what really happens during your time with the provider. These visits may focus on preventive care, managing chronic conditions, addressing new concerns, or simply creating a baseline of your current health status.

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4 Ways Temporary Medical Staff Maintain Patient Care

Barton Associates

MAY 8, 2025

In this blog, we’re going to outline four key ways temporary medical staff such as locum tenens providers can help healthcare facilities maintain continuity of high-quality patient care in the face of growing shortages. Support continuity of care for patients with chronic conditions who require regular follow-ups.

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Pharmacists in Florida (and Elsewhere): Waive Prescribing Red Flags at Your Peril

FDA Law Blog

JUNE 27, 2024

By Larry K. District Court for the District of Texas on Zarzamora Healthcare LLC for repeatedly dispensing opioids and other controlled substances “by filling prescriptions while ignoring red flags.”

Insurance

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Rethinking Opioid Conversions: Mary Lynn McPherson and Drew Rosielle

GeriPal

MAY 19, 2022

As I’ve been blogging about this for a couple months now, I’m really trying to find anyone who loves these things. Drew: I’ve published a draft version of it on the blog. You take their age, their gender, you take their chronic conditions. And is like, dang, like this… yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Does transitional care management improve outcomes after discharge from the hospital?

Common Sense Family Doctor

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Chronic conditions that frequently lead to readmissions, such as heart failure, have been targets of transitional care interventions that may include self-care education, home visits, telephone contacts, and office visits.

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Your First Line of Defense Against Illness

Mesa Family Physician

JUNE 11, 2025

In this blog, we’ll break down what preventive care involves, explore its relationship with short-term health insurance, and explain why it’s a critical part of staying healthy at any stage of life. Preventive care is often referred to as the first line of defense in healthcare—and for good reason.

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MAHA, Nutrition, and the FDA

FDA Law Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

An increasing proportion of people in America are dealing with multiple chronic conditions; 42% have 2 or more, and 12% have at least 5. Besides the personal impact, chronic disease has a substantial effect on the US health care system. About 90% of the annual $4.1

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The Vital Role of Sports Physicals for Young Athletes

East Cary Family Physicians

AUGUST 24, 2023

In this blog, we’ll explore the vital role of sports physicals in preparing your young athletes for a successful and injury-free school year. As your trusted family physicians, we understand the significance of ensuring your child’s health and safety before they dive into the world of school sports and physical activities.

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The MAHA Assessment’s Implications: Drugs (Part One)

FDA Law Blog

JUNE 4, 2025

The Assessment states that this prescribing is tantamount to doing direct harm, given the known and unknown risks and benefits of drugs in these contexts of use. This Assessment does not itself prescribe specific remedies for the ills it diagnoses; those are supposedly coming in the future Strategy document.

Chronic Disease

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FDA Approves First State Drug Importation Program Under 20-Year-Old Statute, But High Hurdles Remain

FDA Law Blog

JANUARY 9, 2024

Major Barriers Persist The state plans to start by importing medications for chronic conditions like HIV/AIDS, mental illness, prostate cancer, and urea cycle disorder for patients under the care of its state agencies before expanding the program to Medicaid patients. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) port of entry.

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Drug Pricing Reform Gathers Steam (Part 1): White House Drug Pricing Plan Offers Laundry List of Existing Democrat Priorities

FDA Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

One proposal is a cap on out-of-pocket costs, primarily to help beneficiaries with expensive chronic conditions that can face large, even catastrophic, out-of-pocket spending every year. The Plan supports legislative action to control total drug costs and patient out-of-pocket (“OOP”) costs for Medicare Part D beneficiaries.

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