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Practice and Community-Level Variations in Primary Care Panel Size [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

We adjusted for missing commercial insurance claims and excluded outliers (clinicians seeing <100 patients or >7500 patients in a year). We assessed variations in panel size based on community and practice-level characteristics.

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AAFP Represents Members During 2025 Legislative Session

Alabama Academy of Family Physicians

By engaging with lawmakers and key stakeholders, the Academy worked to ensure that the voices of family physicians were heard in discussions that have the potential to impact healthcare delivery and access for communities across the state. What Happened: The Senate Committee on Finance and Taxation Education did not meet to discuss the bill.

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Should Recent Weather Events Impact Your Emergency Fund?

The Motivated MD

However, this is a personal finance blog, and for me, it goes beyond that. Helene highlighted that even wealthy communities and well-financed and well-educated populations can be caught off guard and devastated. So, I started listening to podcasts and videos about filing flood insurance and homeowners insurance claims.

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Implementing Palliative Care in Nursing Homes: A Podcast wtih Connie Cole, Kathleen Unroe, and Cari Levy

GeriPal

And that came down a lot of times to asking the provider whether they felt they met criteria and then also looking to see if they had the financial, like the proper insurance or things like that. Connie 21:57 So the next step was generally trying to assess whether they were eligible for palliative care. And it’s amazing.

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‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ Would Batter Rural Hospital Finances, Researchers Say

Physician's Weekly

Cuts to Medicaid and other federal health programs proposed in President Donald Trump’s budget plan would rapidly push more than 300 financially struggling rural hospitals toward a fiscal cliff, according to researchers who track the facilities’ finances. Edward Markey (D-Mass.), That’s closer to 50% now, he said.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

GeriPal

How is it financed and what comes next? If you are interested in learning more and meeting a community of folks interested in hospital-at-home, check out the hospital-at-home user group at hahusersgroup.org or some of these publications: Hospital-Level Care at Home for Acutely Ill Adults: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

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