The Direct Doctors Difference

AUGUST 9, 2023

No appointments, and no insurance needed.” Well that is great as long as you already have your diagnosis figured out! You would not be isolated to one single problem type and you wouldn’t be required to arrive with your diagnosis already in hand. Upfront pricing. Or does it!? If you needed preventative care (ie.

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Dr. Zaar

MAY 20, 2025

If you don’t have full coverage, private insurance might help with costs. Whether your child needs a diagnosis, a second opinion, or ongoing treatment, virtual care offers a safe, efficient, and family-friendly solution. Why Choose Virtual Pediatric Endocrine Care?

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FDA Law

DECEMBER 4, 2023

District Court for the Western District of Texas imposed a $275,000 civil penalty on Zarzamora Healthcare LLC, in San Antonio, and its pharmacist-owner. Prescriptions Containing No Diagnosis or Intended Use Controlled substance prescriptions issued with a non-specific diagnosis or no diagnosis. Complaint ¶ 60.

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Vida Family Medicine

JUNE 28, 2024

The healthcare system in the US is not well-designed for the kind of care that is required to get to the bottom of these symptoms. 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.

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FDA Law

MAY 19, 2025

We have regularly posted on recognized prescribing red flags that pharmacists have ignored that resulted in administrative or civil actions by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) including against Gulf Med and Coconut Grove pharmacies in Florida and Zarzamora Healthcare LLC in Texas.

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FDA Law

JANUARY 6, 2022

Note that EKRA’s reach is broader than the Anti-Kickback Statute, which applies only to “federal healthcare programs” — e.g., Medicare, Medicaid, Tricare, etc. S&G Labs is primarily compensated by patient’s insurance providers. 18 U.S.C. § 24(b) (emphasis added). EKRA also contains several exemptions. 18 U.S.C. § 18 U.S.C. §

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Permanente Medicine

MAY 20, 2025

This actually frees up physicians to lean in and really understand their patient, to have the time and the capacity to do the appropriate diagnosis, but also to listen to them and to motivate them in their own care and wellness. Our patients stay with us for just a really long time and longer than any other health insurance.

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FDA Law

JANUARY 6, 2022

Note that EKRA’s reach is broader than the Anti-Kickback Statute, which applies only to “federal healthcare programs” — e.g., Medicare, Medicaid, Tricare, etc. S&G Labs is primarily compensated by patient’s insurance providers. 18 U.S.C. § 24(b) (emphasis added). EKRA also contains several exemptions. 18 U.S.C. § 18 U.S.C. §

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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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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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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

Nadine: I would argue, insurance doesn’t agree, that anyone with diabetes should be on a CGM at least initially for behavior modification. So say you have somebody new diagnosis, you’ve just put them on Metformin and something else, and you slap a CGM on them and they can see it. Eric: And thank you to all of our listeners.

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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

Their success is understandable : they offer a fast and easy method to check any skin conditions, typically for a fraction of the cost of a traditional healthcare appointment. Searchable by symptoms, signs, and patient factors, it represents the fastest path to a customised differential diagnosis.

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GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Often when there’s a cognitive concern, it’s a family member that is calling saying, “I just want to make sure my mom should still be driving after this happened, or after this diagnosis.” Certainly my bias is that healthcare professionals really do have a role in this discussion. Is this our role? Emmy: Yeah.

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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. Is that your feeling, too? Alex 12:33 Sure, sure.

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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. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. You don’t see it on the PDMP. Katie: Sure.

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GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

Zachary: So seeing a non-onc population at the VA and out-patient at Dana-Farber, and that when someone comes to me with a diagnosis of opioid use disorder, it is much easier you kind of have an idea of where you’re going to start. They have poor pain, they have poor function, but you also can’t clearly make a diagnosis.

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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. Well, I’d agree, John, for palliative care ideally starts around the time of diagnosis.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

We start off part one by interviewing Michele DiTomas, who has been the longstanding Medical Director of the Hospice unit and currently is also the Chief Medical Executive for the Palliative care Initiative with the California Correctional Healthcare Services. These older patients are costing a ton in healthcare costs. Michele: Yep.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

My typical approach with somebody who’s in a methadone clinic, say, a recent cancer diagnosis, and they’re relatively healthy, they can still get to the methadone clinic, although they might not like it, is to. They’re only allowed to prescribe it for opioid use disorder, opioid cravings and Sach.

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GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

Skepticism on the ability of predictive models to transform healthcare Consolidation of EHR’s into the hands of a very few companies, and potential for the drug and device industry to influence care delivery by tweaking AI in ways that are not transparent and already a sort of magical black box. Bob: Exactly. It could be anybody.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

It was designed to really balance what Medicaid at the time was to provide nursing homes and Medicare is obviously health insurance. Eric: Which is, so let’s say I am a provider, a healthcare provider taking, let’s say a nurse practitioner working in an older, a clinic that’s mainly caring for older adults.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 22, 2024

I love these topics, too, because even how do we define what is a diagnosis? Insurance companies. Healthcare provide. Healthcare 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. Alex 04:49 Amyloid.

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GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

So this is about two and a half, three years out from leukemia diagnosis. Eric 17:46 Well, how do you train them, the frontline people seeing these patients, healthcare providers, geriatricians, oncologists? So let’s use the one that I prefer to do, because I know this drug, that’s not how insurance companies work.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Eric: And looking back at that time, what do you think the healthcare system could have done to help with that? But what happened when we finally… When he did get the diagnosis, it all fell into place. As you know the healthcare system right now, we struggle. But in the healthcare system, they are not the same.

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Pamela Wible MD

JUNE 19, 2025

Read transcript and/or download & listen to MP3 below:  Physician burnout—symptom of a broken system “Burnout” has become one of the most talked-about issues in healthcare—but behind the buzzword lies a deeper crisis. You get your own insurance checks. I just got my first insurance check, this is actually working.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

How can we take our healthcare system, and really break it, and do it better for older adults who may not fit within, or may not have the conveniences of going into the clinic, or going to the hospital, all these things that we think about. We’re not paid, as part of a DRG, for any particular diagnosis.

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Physicians News Digest

APRIL 3, 2025

On April 1, the Trump administration slashed the organization that supported that research — the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, or AHRQ — and fired roughly half of its remaining employees as part of a perplexing reorganization of the federal Health and Human Services Department.

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