Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MAY 20, 2025

Confirming patients’ insurance coverage. Knowledge of medical terminology: Understanding common abbreviations, diagnoses, and procedures helps you do your job effectively. As a medical office assistant, some of your day-to-day responsibilities may include: Greeting and checking in patients. Maintaining accurate and organized records.

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Plum Health

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Affordable Care: The fixed monthly fee for direct primary care can be a more affordable option than traditional insurance plans. When she joined our direct primary care practice, we were able to develop a personalized treatment plan that included medication management and counseling.

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The Direct Doctors Difference

AUGUST 9, 2023

No appointments, and no insurance needed.” As physicians, our 8+ years of training are focused on understanding what symptoms could be related to what diagnoses and helping patients navigate the many possibilities and narrow it down with appropriate testing and treatment to better understand what their final diagnosis may be.

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FDA Law Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2023

An extended release (“ER”) opioid in legitimate pain management generally accompanies an IR opioid, with patients taking the ER opioid on a set schedule and the IR opioid as needed. Pharmacists and pharmacy management should pay heed to these prescribing red flags, resolve them when they appear and document their resolution.

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PEMBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2024

I’ll make the important distinction between gastritis – which is diagnosed only via endoscopy – and dyspepsia, the term best used to describe the symptoms many patients experience. The role of lifestyle and dietary modifications in management. Gastroesophageal Reflux: Management Guidance for the Pediatrician.

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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

The company works closely with a continuously growing number of insurance companies in Italy, Germany, the Czech Republic, the UK, in the Netherlands among others, as well as with companies offering this service to their employees. The smart algorithm coupled with dermatologists’ expertise has found over 55,000 cases of skin cancer.

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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. His medical diagnoses were stable. 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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Vida Family Medicine

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The good news is, there are plenty of things you can do at home to manage your symptoms safely! Below I will provide some guidelines on when you can safely manage your symptoms at home, some medication and home remedy recommendations, as well as guidelines for when you do need to contact your doctor or seek emergency medical care.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

In particular, we talk about Katie’s and Jesica’s paper in NEJM titled “ Juggling Two Full-Time Jobs — Methadone Clinic Engagement and Cancer Care ,” which described the difficulty in managing cancer pain and methadone for opioid use disorder. Maybe we’ll get to talking about that today. Jessie, welcome back to GeriPal. Jessie: Yes.

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GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Emmy: Having said that, I think we need to recognize that the gold standard, thorough OT assessment is not a reality for a lot of people, because of there aren’t enough of them, because of insurance might not cover it, and so forth. Somebody who’s older, maybe just diagnosed them with very mild dementia. Emmy: Yeah.

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GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

Management of chronic pain in the elderly: focus on transdermal buprenorphine. And how am I going to manage their pain? And I remember being there and there was a patient who had seen inpatient and then subsequently outpatient who was so thankful in the weirdest in just this irrational way for having been diagnosed with liver cancer.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Why the field is moving away from prescribing methadone to bupenorphine; how to manage patients prescribed methadone for opioid use disorder who then develop serious and painful illness – should we/can we split up the once daily dosing to achieve better pain control? When to consider bupenorphine vs methadone? That’s what we do.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

Healthcare, just the way healthcare is structured, that’s not something that’s feasible unless there’s a specific symptom management need that allows for more care, but just to provide simple care doesn’t exist. Eric: Alex, I’ll ask you as we’re doing the dinner table conversation.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Started as a direct case manager, worked in a variety of different places including the state legislature and I’ve been with the state office now since 2006. It was designed to really balance what Medicaid at the time was to provide nursing homes and Medicare is obviously health insurance. Eric: And Susan? You go back home.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

This model will give participating programs a per-member-per-month payment to offer care management, care coordination, and other services such as caregiver training, disease education, and respite. I didn’t know how to manage it. With your journey, with your dad’s journey- Diane: They could have diagnosed him earlier.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 22, 2024

And then another, which was released under the Bush administration by a council with a different sort of philosophical Benton worldview which still managed to come to the same conclusion in support of a brain based definition, death. Insurance companies. Eric 10:26 Okay, that sounds better than harvest on a spectrum. Icus for beds.

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GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

A lot of people, and we have some data to say that you might have distress, but sex is not one of the reasons for your distress when you’re first diagnosed. So, and actually, all of this is actually document, I think what you guys are looking for is more practical advice on sort of management. Areej 34:19 Yeah, sure.

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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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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 25, 2025

Nearly seven months after the fatal shooting of an insurance CEO in New York drew widespread attention to health insurers’ practice of denying or delaying doctor-ordered care, the largest U.S. insurers agreed Monday to streamline their often cumbersome preapproval system.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

You can broaden the scope of diagnoses. By the year 2000, everyone will be in a Medicare managed care plan.” For our patients, it really is much more patient-centered to able to do symptom management, and to do IV antibiotics, and all those things at home, instead of having them come in. There are some subtleties there.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

By the time Eric Tennant was diagnosed in 2023 with a rare cancer of the bile ducts, the disease had spread to his bones. 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. Senate report.

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Physicians News Digest

APRIL 2, 2025

By Julie Appleby Tim Winard knew he needed to buy health insurance when he left his management job in manufacturing to launch his own business. After speaking with an insurance agent, he decided against enrolling in an Affordable Care Act plan because he was concerned about the potential cost. Then the bill came.

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Physicians News Digest

APRIL 3, 2025

Medical errors caused by missed diagnoses, drug errors, hospital infections, and other factors kill and maim tens of thousands of Americans each year. He and Harvard colleague Celeste Royce have sued AHRQ, HHS , and the Office of Personnel Management over removal of the article.

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