Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 13, 2025

Preventive Services Covered by Health Insurance The Affordable Care Act requires most health insurance plans to cover preventive services without charging copayments or coinsurance. These interventions focus on keeping people healthy and addressing risk factors before any symptoms appear.

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Preventative Care Preventive Care Family Physician Screening 100

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

It also covered related pain management and physical therapy after she returned home to New York City. Since she was still working, she thought her employer health insurance plan would cover her. This time, though, the insurance coverage wasn’t routine. The bills totaled more than $100,000. The bill for that care: $12,000.

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Insurance Patient-Centered Government Provider 52

GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

-@AlexSmithMD Additional Links: – Fingerstick monitoring in VA nursing homes (too common!) – Improving diabetes management in hospice – Continuous Glucose Monitoring complicating end of life care Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast. This is Eric Widera. Alex Smith: This is Alex Smith. Is that your experience?

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Diabetes Management Patient-Centered Families 74

PEMBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2024

You just got to take a good history and do a physical examination, especially when the symptoms are typical, like regurgitation, heartburn, or epigastric pain in an older child or adolescent. Again, otherwise the diagnosis is based on history and physical examination. You want to take a good history on feeding or dietary habits.

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Diagnosis Management IT Patient-Centered 52

GeriPal

JUNE 12, 2025

During my training, I didn’t receive much education about radiation oncology, and I’m not entirely sure what some of the terms mean (hypofractionated means fewer sessions, right?). The physics and mathematics that went into radiation therapy planning. Eric 04:49 Drew me to the field physics and math. So I think education is key.

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Patient-Centered Referral Patients IT 103

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

If they’re in a major car crash, they’re going to have more long-term complications probably than a 20-year-old would. Or somebody who has other physical cognitive problems at any age. But a lot of that is because older adults don’t do as well after injury, because of physiologic changes. ” Alex: Interesting.

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IT Families Family Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

And that really is what prompted me to get certified as a sexual education provider. All guests agree that clinicians feel they need to have something they can do if they open Pandora’s box. And then I subsequently entail, yeah, it was interesting. Sharon 15:21 Right.

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Illness IT Physicals Patients 131