Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

It is unclear how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted LVOP, particularly among vulnerable communities. The pandemic did not affect disparity in rural LVOP but had an LVOP-reducing effect on low-income (M) and an LVOP-increasing effect on older adults (MA) compared to the commercially insured from 2019-2021.

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Insurance Community Patients IT 130

Plum Health

JUNE 9, 2025

Donovan Ogboh is a Family Medicine Doctor in Detroit Michigan Dr. Donovan Ogboh is a board-certified family medicine physician with a dedicated interest in preventive care, sports medicine, pediatric care, women’s health, and the ongoing management of chronic conditions. Learn more about DPC

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Rural facilities report challenges and solutions to meet community needs for specialty care. Rural health system leaders described 5 methods to provide rural specialty access: community-based, visiting, referrals to larger towns, telehealth, and management by primary care with specialist support.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Community Telehealth Referral 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting & Population: All clinicians in Family Medicine, Pediatrics, and Internal Medicine caring for individuals aged 22 years and younger in the Virginia All Payers Claims Database (APCD). Clinicians receiving any support from VMAP tended to be female, <40 years old, and practiced in rural communities.

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Mental Health Internal Medicine Family Medicine DO 130

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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Family Physician Families Family Board-Certified 52

Family Physicians of St. Joseph

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

That has placed them in the rare company of becoming one of the Top Fifteen Under 15 businesses in our community. Family Physicians of St. Joseph, the family medicine practice is committed to providing exceptional, affordable, patient-centered primary care in SW Michigan without reliance on insurance companies for payment of services.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Despite Canada’s systems of universal health insurance, more than one-in-five people do not have access to primary care. Results OurCare engaged nearly 10,000 people across Canada over 16 months (9279 survey respondents,159 priority panel participants and 192 community roundtable participants). Setting Canada.

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Patient-Centered Primary Care Patients Community 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The secondary objectives were to assess the safety of yogurt supplemented with BB-12 and to carry out longitudinal community structure and gene expression analysis of fecal microbiota to evaluate the impact of high dose BB-12 in a pediatric population receiving antibiotics. There was no exclusion based on race, gender, or insurance status.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Instrument: The study utilized several validated scales, including a modified STARRS instrument for suicidal behavior, healthcare access questions from the CDC’s Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System survey, insurance status modified from the American Community Survey, and the Multidimensional scale of Perceived Social Support.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Mental Health Insurance Healthcare 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Findings from qualitative interviews indicate strong support for self-collected HPV testing among community members. Self-collected HPV testing should be made accessible, financially affordable, and be covered by health insurance. The respondents’ ages ranged from 25 to 63, with a median age of 37.

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Screening Patient-Centered Insurance Diagnosis 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

This includes Healthy People 2030, which has limited PC access to a single measure of ‘usual source of care’ As a result, it is necessary to improve the measurement of PC access and identify measures that can standardize access measurement across all levels of the PC community.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Insurance Utilities Relationship 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting or Dataset: Survey data from 50 Oregon primary care and emergency department sites Population Studied: 16,403 Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries Intervention/Instrument: The CMS Accountable Health Communities study Outcome Measures: Positive screen for one or more HRSN: housing, food, transportation, utilities, safety.

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Transportation Screening Individual Primary Care 130

Permanente Medicine

MAY 20, 2025

In addition, Dr. Nguyen co-chairs the SCPMG Virtual Medical Center and brings extensive expertise as a practicing family medicine physician at Kaiser Permanente. In Kaiser Permanente here, we exist to provide high-quality, affordable health care for our patients in the communities we serve. million members and patients.

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Patient-Centered Patients Medical IT 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objectives: 1) To measure the frequency of exposure to high-priority DDI among non-elderly community-dwelling non-elderly adults in Québec. Population: a 5% random sample of adult (19-64y) Quebec residents covered by the public drug insurance in 2014-2017 was used. Results: 1) 11.7% (95% CI: 11.5-12.0) Conclusions: One in 8.5

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Primary Care Emergency Room Insurance ER 130

Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 13, 2025

However, at Mesa Family Physicians , we believe that preventive healthcare is the cornerstone of long-term wellness for our Mesa, Arizona community. Our welcoming, family-friendly environment at Mesa Family Physicians is designed to make these experiences positive for our youngest community members.

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Family Physician Preventative Care Preventive Care Families 100

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: To assess the impact of neighborhood poverty, as measured by the Distressed Communities Index (DCI), on TKA in Maryland. The impact of neighborhood socioeconomic status, a major social determinant of health, on access to these surgeries in outpatient care is significant and warrants examination.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Race, ethnicity, high BMI, insurance, and primigravidity were not independently associated with sPTB. Conclusions: Rural residence was a RF for sPTB in this Iowa community. Setting: IHC, Iowa City, IA. Population Studied: We started with 29,620 deliveries at IHC between May 1, 2009, and May 31, 2023. CI, 295->999.9).

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Insurance Complication Relationship Community 130

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. to 3.33, indicating that even the most pragmatic studies fell well short of simulating conditions in community settings.

Primary Care 59

Primary Care Screening Family Physician Family Medicine 59

Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 6, 2025

Most insurance plans cover preventive care visits at 100% with no copay or deductible, recognizing the substantial value these appointments provide in preventing more serious and costly health issues. The Affordable Care Act requires insurance companies to cover a wide range of preventive services without patient cost-sharing.

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Preventative Care Preventive Care Appointment Screening 100

PEMBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2024

They all work fine and there’s some pediatric formulations which you can look up and sometimes insurances will take one and not the other, again, beyond the scope of this episode. Remember, our community pediatricians, family medicine doctors, are brilliant. They can handle this problem.

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Diagnosis Management IT Patient-Centered 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Despite federal- and state-wide initiatives to boost access to health insurance (e.g., Affordable Care Act Medicaid Expansion and individual health insurance marketplaces), Latinos continue to have the highest uninsured rate of any racial or ethnic group in the United States. Design and Analysis: Retrospective cohort study.

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GeriPal

MARCH 9, 2023

Psychedelics have been used by communities around the globe for hundreds of years (or more). One of the headlines there was about a family medicine doc, not to pick on family medicine, a doc, who was prescribing mail order psychedelics at really high volumes around the country.

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Patient-Centered Community IT Medical 91

Vida Family Medicine

MARCH 28, 2024

They are also costly and subject to variable insurance coverage, leading many med spas and compounding pharmacies to offer compounded versions of these FDA-approved medications with varying degrees of safety. There is a lot of information and a lot of marketing out there creating a lot of confusion.

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Diabetes Primary Care Physician Medical Patients 52

Plum Health

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Comprehensive Primary Care for Michigan Communities What sets this clinic apart is its comprehensive approach to primary care. The clinic focuses on family medicine , meaning your entire family can receive care from the same trusted provider. Do I need insurance to visit the clinic?

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

But at the end of the day, I actually view medicine more as an applied science. So we take that science and we apply it to something that’s very messy and chaotic, like a human being or a community or a population. I think it started off from a need, a hunger in the community. A love letter kind of back to my community.

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Maine Academy of Family Physicians

JUNE 21, 2024

This bill proposes to improve the healthcare decision-making and treatment process for prescriptions and testing by reducing the pre-approval (prior authorization) burdens placed on healthcare providers by health insurance carriers. Opposition from a coalition of the tobacco lobby and the recovery community prevailed to kill the bill.

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Family Physician Family Medicine DO Primary Care 40