Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Black and Latinx women have higher incidence of cervical cancer diagnosis and lower rates of cervical cancer screening than non-Latinx White women. Self-collected HPV testing should be made accessible, financially affordable, and be covered by health insurance.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Micro-elimination projects aim to selectively foster diagnosis, treatment and reinfection of high priority demographic groups. were on Medicaid insurance when diagnosed. Context: Hepatitis C virus (HCV) disproportionately impacts persons with substance use and mental health disorders within the United States. Among new patients, 58.9%

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The mean age was 55 years and 72% had commercial insurance. Breast cancer was the most common (51%) diagnosis. Results: The cohort consisted of 264 individuals with cancer of various stages. Most were white (89%), female (84%), with a college or graduate/professional degree (83%).

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ABIM

MAY 18, 2025

and Globally IBD is no longer a rare diagnosis. With no family history and little cultural awareness of the disease, I was left wondering why or how this had happened to me. I was living with pain, confusion, and shame, and I didn’t yet have the words or the diagnosis to explain it to others. In the U.S.,

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Diagnose Healthcare Diagnosis Physicals 40

Vida Family Medicine

JUNE 28, 2024

Health insurance covers only very short visits that are limited to 1-2 problems per visit, leaving little time for patients to be able to share all of the relevant information about longstanding symptoms. If there are specific conditions you are worried about based on your family history or Googling or social media, write these down too.

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Vascular Physician

JUNE 27, 2021

For proper diagnosis, a vascular specialist will complete a comprehensive evaluation that includes an ultrasound to detect varicose veins, evaluate blood flow and determine the efficiency of vein valves. Varicose veins are oftentimes covered by insurance whereas spider veins typically are not since they tend to be cosmetic only.

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Primary Care Physician Insurance Transportation Patients 52

PEMBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2024

I’ll dive into the latest clinical practice guidelines and discuss evidence-based approaches to diagnosis and treatment. Now, in the pediatric emergency department, the diagnosis of reflux is primarily clinical. Again, otherwise the diagnosis is based on history and physical examination.

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Diagnosis Management IT Patient-Centered 52

GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

So my background clinically is working with cancer patients and families and those who underwent bone marrow transplant, and a lot of times for their treatment regimen, it includes steroids. What is the role of the family caregiver system, how they play a role? Tamryn: Yes, 100%. And I don’t know where if we’re there yet.

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Diabetes Management Patient-Centered Family 73

Permanente Medicine

MAY 20, 2025

In addition, Dr. Nguyen co-chairs the SCPMG Virtual Medical Center and brings extensive expertise as a practicing family medicine physician at Kaiser Permanente. I’m a family physician by training. And I would remiss not to mention my wife and my family who might love and enjoy time with to travel. Fascinating background.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Study Design: Data from adults 18 years of age and older relevant to self-reported non-gestational diabetes diagnosis and eye exam within the last 12 months were extracted from the 2019 NHIS dataset. Outcomes were reported as odds ratios (OR) with 95% confidence intervals (CI).

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Diabetes Screening Insurance Healthcare 130

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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Preventive Care Preventative Care Wellness Visit Physicals 100

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Often the work of the certified driving rehab specialist is to assess the older drivers goals, assess prognosis for driving, and help the family navigate discussions around driving cessation (hmmm…sounds like an approach to family meetings). Were those people self referring, or family members calling you asking? Eric: Yeah.

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IT Family Families Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

In many cases, the families were the victims of the crime. But if the services that they require aren’t able to be provided within, they have Health Net as their insurance, so we contract with specialists in the community. And we’ve really tried to serve that hospice mission of serving the patient and the family.

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GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

But that just didn’t really resonate with what I saw clinically which was that there was lots of suffering both in the patient, their family and on the clinical team and just felt it was really this space where I didn’t have a lot of evidence to guide me. And sometimes you can make a use disorder of diagnosis in hindsight.

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Illness Patient-Centered IT Patients 102

GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

We’ve invited two death doulas, Jane Euler and John Loughnane (who is also a family doc and palliative care physician), to talk about the role of a doula at the end of life. John: I am what I am, which is a family practice doctor. ” I think the family would like you to consider how to work with that. That dawned on me.

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Provider Illness IT Healthcare 117

GeriPal

OCTOBER 24, 2024

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. David 20:00 Yeah, I think so. Eric 45:24 Yeah.

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Medical IT Patient-Centered Healthcare 98

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Our field really lacks specificity in the terms that we use, and I think we really don’t know how chronic cancer pain, let’s say, a few years out from that initial diagnosis differs from, let’s say, chronic low back pain. Have you had a family history of substance use disorder? Most of our population has trauma.

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Illness Patient-Centered Screening IT 136

GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

maybe eight or 10 months ago, “Please write a prior authorization to the insurance company. The thing just wrote this beautiful, absolutely beautiful, well-constructed prior authorization request to the insurance company. I want to use a anticoagulant, like Apixaban, a DOAC for my patient with an insomnia.” This is GPT-4.

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IT Electronics Patients Healthcare 139

Vida Family Medicine

MARCH 1, 2023

Project Heal is another fantastic resource that helps patients navigate insurance or get help with the costs for treatment if the patient is uninsured or underinsured. At Vida Family Medicine we offer primary care services to individuals in recovery from eating disorders.

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Mental Health Physicals DO Family Medicine 52

GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Administration on Aging connecting you to services for older adults and their families California’s Master Plan for Aging New York’s Master Plan for Aging Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. It was designed to really balance what Medicaid at the time was to provide nursing homes and Medicare is obviously health insurance.

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Community Nurse Practitioner Provider IT 89

GeriPal

AUGUST 22, 2024

I love these topics, too, because even how do we define what is a diagnosis? Patients families want to know whether their loved one has died. Insurance companies. This way of coping with pluralism is a tradition that he really extended and pioneered and was deeply influential. And a lot of my work has kind of been that vein.

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IT Families Family Patient-Centered 113

GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

So this is about two and a half, three years out from leukemia diagnosis. And the point of that is that so many people, in my experience, and I’m sure it’s the same initial diagnosis of cancer, that’s the last thing that I want to talk about. And I said, sure. And I had that mortified look on my face of God.

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Illness IT Physicals Patients 130

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” Malaz: I love it.

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Patient-Centered IT Family Families 125

Pamela Wible MD

JUNE 19, 2025

Born into a family of physicians who warned her not to pursue medicine. It’s just a trash can label—not really even a diagnosis, a made-up term that is used as psychological warfare on physicians to control us. I’m not kidding like my first family picture with my parents was when I was 45. Housewives were burned out.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

But as we talked to patients and providers, there was, really, this need for patients who wanted services, like IV antibiotics and IV fluids, but wanted to be able to spend that time at home, with their family, even if it meant it was their last days or weeks. Bruce: This is, Ghostbusters, basically, a ham radio. Eric: Yeah.

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Hospital Patient-Centered Supply Chain IT 115

Physician's Weekly

JULY 1, 2025

The trip would result in a prostate cancer diagnosis. So began the stress of trying to pay for tens of thousands of dollars in treatment — without health insurance. Making sure he had insurance was the last thing on his mind, until recently, Fry said. “Things got busy,” he said.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 26, 2025

California lawmakers are poised to delay the state’s much-ballyhooed new law mandating in vitro fertilization insurance coverage for millions, set to take effect July 1. Gavin Newsom has asked lawmakers to push the implementation date to January 2026, leaving patients, insurers, and employers in limbo.

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Insurance Patient-Centered Provider Management 52