The Health Policy Exchange

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Health Policy Fellowship three years ago, though I still enjoy working alongside these talented family physicians in clinic, such as Dr. Brian Antono, who recently blogged about his fellowship experiences for Harvard Medical School's Center for Primary Care. Phillips, Jr.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

MARCH 15, 2025

Paperwork required to sign up for health insurance and to establish care with a practice. Travel to the doctor’s office. Patients with Medicaid insurance or dual Medicare-Medicare coverage were more likely than those with private insurance to report sludge. Wait times.

Screening 52

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Noreta Family Medicine

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

As a family doctor who has worked for a large hospital system in the past, I fully agree with this contention. The film talks about some of the escape fires of healthcare, including non-opioid pain treatments, nutrition programs, strong doctor-patient relationships, among others. I now know why Bill Skelton gave me this film.

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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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Common Sense Family Doctor

JANUARY 19, 2025

But that wasn’t the case for the estimated 1 in 15 US patients whose screening colonoscopies were performed by family physicians in 2021. From 2016 to 2021, the percentage of screening colonoscopies performed by family physicians decreased from 11.3%

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Common Sense Family Doctor

MAY 30, 2025

Despite private and public insurance plans fully covering lung cancer screening in the United States, only 10% to 30% of eligible individuals in were receiving it in a recent state-by-state survey.

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