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Insurance Artificially Inflates Medical Costs

Family Physicians of St. Joseph

From the Detroit News If there’s any more argument to be made about getting third-party insurers — whether government or private insurance — out of most routine health care, here’s one. My son, Zane, has Type 1 diabetes, treatment of which requires frequent blood work. under the insurance-free system. more, or a 947.54

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Why Identifying and Managing Giant Cell Arteritis as an Emergency Is Crucial

Physician's Weekly

Important to note that GCA patients are older, many have comorbidities such as diabetes, failed cardiovascular disease or psychiatric risks. And that said, at least in the select GCA trial, the adverse event profile was reassuring likely because of the reduced steroid exposure in this group.

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Pearls profiles: Get to know Neil Baum, MD

Physician's Practice

Recent Videos Related Content Decoding malpractice premiums: Insider insights every physician should know Jennifer Wiggins June 27th 2025 Article Check out these essential insights on controlling malpractice insurance premiums, including specialty impact, location factors, policy types and available discounts for physicians.

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Hearing Loss in Geriatrics and Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nick Reed and Meg Wallhagen

GeriPal

I’d been working with persons who had diabetes and also caregivers and so forth, trying to go at the direction and realize as I look more and more at hearing loss, that it was totally unrecognized in clinical practice. And he liked some of what I was doing, which was really on diabetes and hearing loss.

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How to manage GLP-1s in the hospital

Today's Hospitalist

THE BLOCKBUSTER GLP-1 receptor agonists are a transformative class of medications increasingly tied to better outcomes across a variety of conditions and organ systems, not just in patients with obesity and type 2 diabetes. A lot of plans require a prior approval for each dose, and insurance plans are making access really difficult.”

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Optimizing Nutrition in Aging: A Podcast with Anna Pleet, Elizabeth Eckstrom, and Emily Johnston

GeriPal

So if you already have a condition, you might be able to prevent events. And one of the really fantastic programs and studies that we have is the diabetes prevention program. So the first diabetes prevention program was published in 2002. So diabetes prevention programs have been going on for over 20 years. Go on, Anna.

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Keynote: Finding your bliss—beating physician “burnout”

Pamela Wible MD

A physician actually ended up in status epilepticus, like in the ICU with event like almost dead from seizures as a result of sleep deprivation and overwork. I’m really into fasting but fasting is contraindicated if you’re diabetic and a number of other conditions I saw on the slide (in an earlier talk). Insurance pays that.

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