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Practice patterns of Ontario physicians working in 'boutique' medical clinics [Economic or policy analysis]

Annals of Family Medicine

Provincial administrative claims data was obtained from the Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP). Results: Significant differences were seen in patient demographics, fees, and referral patterns amongst boutique clinic practices compared to Toronto Central LHIN and Ontario physicians.

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Primary Care Perspectives on Access to Specialty Care in Rural Communities: A Mixed-Method Study [Health care disparities]

Annals of Family Medicine

Rural health system leaders described 5 methods to provide rural specialty access: community-based, visiting, referrals to larger towns, telehealth, and management by primary care with specialist support. Barriers included workforce shortages, travel times, geography, inclement weather, and insurance limitations.

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Hepatitis C Micro-elimination Using Patient Navigation In a Regional Healthcare System [Infectious diseases (not respiratory tract)]

Annals of Family Medicine

Intervention: Patient navigation program to specialist treatment from primary care with additional referral to behavioral health services. were on Medicaid insurance when diagnosed. A particular focus was those falling outside of the traditional birth cohort. Among new patients, 58.9% were female, 74.4% identified as Black, 79.5%

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Chronic disease management among people with serious mental illness across rural, small urban, and metropolitan settings [Health care disparities]

Annals of Family Medicine

Referral to and/or visit with an ophthalmologist was most common in metropolitan settings, with similarly lower values in small urban and rural. The proportions of people with any diabetes or anti-hypertensive drug were similar across settings, but with some variation in patterns for insulin and non-insulin diabetes drugs.

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New South Family Medicine and MedSpa Offers Next Level Care

New South Family Medicine and MedSpa

Direct primary care offers you and your family top-notch health care, and so much more.like a high patient and provider satisfaction with an improved quality of care. Providers at New South Family Medicine and MedSpa can address the patient's deeper needs, rather than trying to rush through a hectic day full of too-brief appointments.

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Scope This! A Podcast on Gastroesophageal Reflux and Gastritis

PEMBlog

They all work fine and there’s some pediatric formulations which you can look up and sometimes insurances will take one and not the other, again, beyond the scope of this episode. But if they’re not improving, And that could be a cause for referral to gastroenterology. A trial of four to eight weeks would be reasonable.

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

GeriPal

We could look at cancer registry linked with… Like, I see here Medicare type big data sets, but then you have to rely on insurance claims and that’s going to underestimate SUD when most people aren’t getting treatment and it’s a tough nut to crack. But alcohol and opioids are up there. ” Thoughts on that?

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