Common Sense Family Doctor

JANUARY 19, 2025

A study of an insurance claims database found that family physicians are more likely to perform colonoscopies in older, male patients residing in more rural areas of the Midwest, South, and Western United States.

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Center for Family Medicine (CFM)

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

Carrying a child comes with complications sometimes, but with the help of maternity care, you are more likely to stay well during your pregnancy. For example, some women don’t have insurance, and some women don’t have access to transportation. What Services Do We Offer?

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 25, 2025

Tocilizumab has been used for years and in JTA weekly injections, reduced relapses and allowed for steroid spearing, but the burden of weekly subcutaneous administration, insurance approvals, injection site reactions are real in these patients. And RINVOQ is the first oral JAK inhibitor approved for GCA.

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Reflections of a Grady Doctor

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Seeing as he has no insurance and not much else? I implore you to do whatever it takes to get on the other side of that complicated. And we don't need to either." Well I know he can't speak for himself right now. But what do you think would be his preference?" Parents: "Well. Me: *silence* Damn. Damn damn damn. There was drama later.

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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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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: People with serious mental illness (SMI) are at increased risk of complications and earlier death from comorbid chronic diseases, compared with patients without mental illness.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is the most common complication of diabetes mellitus and is the leading cause of blindness in working age Americans. Outcomes were reported as odds ratios (OR) with 95% confidence intervals (CI).

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

In this first installment of a two-part series, “An Arm and a Leg” shares lessons from Bob’s experience navigating a maze of pharmacies and insurance companies to get his daughter the medicine she needs. Because… Dan: Bob’s new job meant… a new insurance plan for the family. He left without it.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

We excluded deliveries complicated by known RFs for PTB (n=12,646). Race, ethnicity, high BMI, insurance, and primigravidity were not independently associated with sPTB. 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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Mesa Family Physician

MAY 8, 2025

Whether you’re scheduling your annual physical , exploring the differences between a wellness visit vs physical , or simply wondering what’s covered under your insurance, understanding preventive care can empower you to take charge of your health. What Is Preventive Care? Annual Physicals: Covered or Not?

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Mere Mortal MD

MAY 22, 2025

My role is to head the rehabilitation team, while treating any medical complications that may arise from their initial injury or diagnoses. If a patient has Medicare for insurance, they have a right to appeal their discharge. But not all patients like the chosen discharge date.

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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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PEMBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Red flags that you should always ask about include hematemesis, melana, dysphagia, and Unintentional weight loss, these all need further investigation for complications like esophagitis or another diagnosis such as EOE or peptic ulcer disease. If any of those red flags are present, you should definitely consider a further diagnostic workup.

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Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 13, 2025

For Mesa residents dealing with these ongoing health challenges, regular visits to Mesa Family Physicians ensure that your condition remains well-controlled and complications are minimized. We work with most major insurance plans and offer transparent pricing options for self-pay patients.

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GeriPal

JUNE 12, 2025

So in my practice, I typically recommend multi fraction or higher dose regimens for patients who have extra osseous extension or complicated bone Metastases, which, you know, most of the data surrounding equivalency of pain relief is in this sort of uncomplicated bone metastasis population. There may be co pays or things like that.

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Vida Family Medicine

JANUARY 4, 2022

to take care of ourselves and prevent disease, or to treat disease when we catch it early than it is to treat a more complicated health problem. For many patients without health insurance, or even those with insurance, this can be a challenge. Our health is our most important asset and we all want to take care of our health!

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: One of the major complications of the COVID pandemic is the development of long COVID, defined as COVID symptoms persisting for more than 3 months. Some previous studies have evaluated demographic factors that may lead to long COVID, but none have evaluated medical history or covid vaccination as potential factors.

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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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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. But I think then the other factor in this that makes it complicated is the decision for someone in Manhattan might be very different than the decision for someone in, like, rural Wyoming. Emmy: Yeah.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Summary Transcript CME Summary Cannabis is complicated. And you could say the same thing about insurance companies. Insurance companies will pay for a lot of drugs that have really not a whole lot of evidence at a lot of costs. But to this day, I haven’t heard of an insurance company that’s willing to cover cannabis.

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GeriPal

MARCH 9, 2023

Alex: It’s complicated. We, for very complicated reasons, ended up with niacin. So, creating a- Alex: Control condition. Eric: Yeah. Eric: A blinded control condition is the tough part here, right? Stacy: Expectancy is a huge limitation in this research in general.

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GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

For example, putting the healthy food at the back of the grocery store is sludge; making an applicant for health insurance climb the flight of stairs to the office – weeding out those less fit – is also sludge. Because it’s complicated and we don’t want to over complicate prayer listeners.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

I thought that was an interesting take on doing this, because a mother-daughter relationship can be complicated, can be wonderful, and it’s hard to navigate when you lose your mother. I thought if I could do this for other people, I said, “That would just really please my heart.”

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FDA Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Teva submitted an ANDA in 2002, and after some complicated regulatory history, ultimately carved-out the congestive heart failure indication by way of a section viii statement. Amarin even sued a health insurer alleging active encouragement to use Hikma’s generic version instead of Vascepa for the patented indication.

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GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

Don 13:50 Well, you know, I think one of the issues, though, when you ask about prevalence data, especially, say, in the oncology world, not only does it matter about how you ask the questions, but because it’s such a complicated topic, people may infer very different things as to what you’re talking about. Sharon 15:21 Right.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 22, 2024

Insurance companies. Eric 11:54 And also lots of other things we don’t even think about too revolve around this life insurance and whether or not how much you can sue your doctor or healthcare providers for depends if the patient’s still alive or if they’re dead. Healthcare provide. Healthcare companies.

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Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 6, 2025

Tertiary Prevention: Managing Existing Conditions Tertiary preventive care focuses on managing existing chronic diseases to prevent complications, improve quality of life, and reduce the negative impact of disease. These measures are taken after a disease has been diagnosed.

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Pamela Wible MD

JUNE 19, 2025

I felt like a lot of doctors feel—they feel like they’re locked into criminal rings committing insurance fraud just to stay afloat. You get your own insurance checks. I just got my first insurance check, this is actually working. Insurance pays that. Fraud and theft and depression. Just being honest here.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The pneumonia could get treated, but I think geriatricians, actually, were well aware of iatrogenic complications of care and quality gaps, even well before the IOM reports of the late 1990s and the like. What is it about my insurance, that does not cover me staying in this hospital?” It really doesn’t matter all that much.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

But that’s when his family began fighting another adversary: their health insurer, which decided the treatment was “not medically necessary,” according to insurance paperwork. Health insurers issue millions of denials every year. “They’re, like, not accountable to anyone.” Senate report.

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