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Traditional vs. Subscription Primary Care Payment Model: Which Fits You?

Plum Health

Discounted Labs and Medications : Some DPC practices offer significant discounts on labs, imaging, and medications, which can be a big cost-saver if you need these services regularly. Subscription models, however, generally don’t cover emergencies or specialists, so if you have frequent specialist visits, this can be a drawback.

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When to Go to Urgent Care for a Sore Throat: How Can Urgent Care Help?

Doctor On Demand

Here’s a closer look at the red-flag symptoms that signal it’s time to visit urgent care for a sore throat: Severe sore throat or trouble swallowing A severe sore throat or trouble swallowing suggests you might have a more complex underlying cause needing urgent medical attention. These symptoms require immediate medical attention.

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

GeriPal

The idea was to create a robust community-based infrastructure that could help older adults succeed in their homes and communities, whether they were healthy, how to keep them healthy or they were at imminent risk of emergency room visits, hospitalizations, or nursing home placements. To Susan’s point.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

GeriPal

Eric: … you’re getting paid for individual encounters, not going to people’s homes, not being paid for all of the additional support that’s needed for comprehensive cancer care. But for other- Diane: And it’s on the medical side. Malaz: Correct. We do things… I mean, this is very common as you know.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

GeriPal

In that clinical experience, we saw a lot of older adults who would develop acute illness, often exacerbations of their chronic conditions. Initially, we focused on four conditions, community-acquired pneumonia, exacerbations of heart failure, exacerbations of COPD and cellulitis. This is before value-based care, all of that.

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