Integrated Care News by CFHA

MAY 8, 2025

Providing incentives such as tying vaccination to insurance-related or public benefits or offering small monetary or non-monetary incentives can also improve vaccine uptake. However, simply educating parents about vaccines results in little to no difference in parental attitudes toward vaccines or intentions to vaccinate.

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The Health Policy Exchange

MARCH 26, 2014

In the mid-1990s, the American Medical Association confidently predicted that the penetration of managed care would lead to a large "physician surplus" and convinced Congress to cap the number of graduate medical education (GME) positions subsidized by the Medicare program. Two decades later, there is a widespread consensus that the U.S.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 18, 2025

Cost-sharing and education may improve access to GLP-1 therapies for obesity, but systemic barriers remain, requiring broader policy and clinical reforms. Healthcare Professionals Among healthcare professionals, potential barriers include lack of education, safety concerns, and obesity stigma/weight bias.

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Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 13, 2025

Preventive Services Covered by Health Insurance The Affordable Care Act requires most health insurance plans to cover preventive services without charging copayments or coinsurance. These interventions focus on keeping people healthy and addressing risk factors before any symptoms appear.

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Concierge Choice Physicians

JANUARY 28, 2025

The physician continues to accept insurance and government programs, as before. He completed his Internal Medicine training at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital from 2015-2018 accompanied by a focus in Medical Education. The patient decides what’s right for them.

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Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MAY 1, 2025

Here are the top 10 jobs to consider, including the education requirements and average pay in Connecticut. Education requirements: Completion of a Medical Assisting certificate program. Education requirements: A high school diploma or GED. Education requirements: A high school diploma or GED. per hour 2. per hour 3.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

Since she was still working, she thought her employer health insurance plan would cover her. This time, though, the insurance coverage wasn’t routine. Diamond contacted several people at UnitedHealthcare before she found out why the insurer refused to pay her claims. The bills totaled more than $100,000.

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Medical Xpress

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) is associated with improved health outcomes for patients with diabetes. Primary care practices, however, have been slow to adopt the technology. Researchers used a web-based survey to assess CGM prescribing behaviors and resource needs of U.S. primary care clinicians.

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Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

JUNE 2, 2025

Entry level roles typically don’t require education beyond a high school diploma or GED. Medical biller: Medical billers are responsible for submitting claims to patients’ insurance providers, and following up to ensure the practice receives payment. RNs require at least a two-year Associate’s Degree in Nursing.

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Noreta Family Medicine

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Since we are not signed up with any health insurance companies (We charge patients a monthly fee), we don’t have any pressure from insurance companies or healthcare systems to see an unreasonable number of patients per day. A third barrier is that insurance companies often do not pay for nutrition counseling.

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Plum Health

JUNE 9, 2025

This practice model allows me to provide more personalized accessible care without the constraints of traditional insurance, offering longer visits, easier communication, and a stronger focus on patient care. ” — Donovan Ogboh, DO Enroll With Dr. Ogboh Now What Is Plum Health Direct Primary Care? Learn more about DPC

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The Virginia Mental Health Access Program (VMAP) is a statewide initiative that helps health care providers take better care of children and adolescents with mental health conditions through provider education and increasing access to child psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and care navigators. vs. 47.4%, p<0.0001).

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Office and non-physician staff identify eligible patients, provide screening education, process test orders, and ensure follow up on test results. Eligible patients are identified through EMR screening tools, insurance databases, and manual chart reviews.

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Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MAY 15, 2025

PACT provides continuing education opportunities to help employees learn new skills and stay up-to-date in their fields. When you join the PACT team, you’ll receive a variety of competitive benefits to promote good health: Medical care benefits: Health insurance helps you pay for the care you need, from doctor visits to hospital stays.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Understanding the evolution of physician's practice patterns across a career-span is crucial for workforce projections, policy planning, and shaping medical education. Our findings suggest the need for policymakers and insurers to facilitate mechanisms to support broad SOP to meet patient needs.

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The Physicians Foundation

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

adults lacked a usual source of care in 2022—marking the highest level in a decade, despite historically high rates of insurance coverage during this period. The percentage of NPs and PAs in primary care dipped to new lows of 30% and 24.3% in 2022, respectively, compared with 34% and 29.7% More than 30% of U.S. As the U.S.

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Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

MARCH 7, 2025

Mid-Year Formulary Changes (HF 1652/SF 1806): Seeks to prohibit health insurers from making mid-year changes to their drug formularies, ensuring stable access to prescribed medications for patients. HF 981 : Opioid prevention and education funding provided, and money appropriated (author: Rep. Read the bill summary for HF 981.

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Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

MARCH 27, 2025

Committees reviewed a range of legislation, including efforts to address workforce shortages, expand insurance coverage and improve school health services. SENATE EDUCATION POLICY COMMITTEE S.F. 1354 ( Senator Boldon ): On Wednesday, March 19, 2025, the Senate Education Policy Committee heard S.F. Read a summary of S.F.

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The Motivated MD

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Helene highlighted that even wealthy communities and well-financed and well-educated populations can be caught off guard and devastated. So, I started listening to podcasts and videos about filing flood insurance and homeowners insurance claims. I would then subsequently file a claim with my homeowners and flood insurance.

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The Physicians Foundation

AUGUST 15, 2024

This prestigious award is part of The Physicians Foundation’s Leadership Award Program and honors a physician who has gone above and beyond to connect patients with the social, economic, educational and environmental resources necessary for their overall health. The award is named in honor of Richard (Buz) Cooper, M.D., As the U.S.

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Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MAY 20, 2025

Confirming patients’ insurance coverage. Education and Certification Requirements The typical path to becoming a medical office assistant involves getting your high school diploma (or GED) and then completing a certificate/diploma program. Booking, rescheduling, or canceling appointments. Maintaining accurate and organized records.

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Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MAY 27, 2025

Communicating with patients, healthcare providers, and insurance companies to coordinate care. Helping with billing, including preparing bills and processing insurance claims. Soft skills are personal traits you bring to your role, while hard skills are job-specific abilities you learn through education or training.

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Doctor On Demand

MARCH 31, 2023

A licensed therapist has met the educational and training requirements to practice therapy, which means they have the necessary skills and knowledge to help you with your mental health issues. Ask about the therapist’s fees and insurance : It’s important to know the therapist’s fees and whether they accept your insurance.

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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

Finally, the arrival of interoperability can connect and harmonise various hospital systems An M-LLM could serve as a central hub that facilitates access to various unimodal AIs used in the hospital, such as radiology software, insurance handling software, Electronic Medical Records (EMR), etc.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

The Quality of Autism-Related Services While autism-related services span many areas, the researchers highlighted physical health services, behavioral health services, educational services, and employment services as crucial for people with autism. Those from marginalized backgrounds often face difficulty accessing these services.

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Barton Associates

MAY 29, 2025

These crucial healthcare providers can be found in almost every healthcare setting, including, but not limited to: Hospitals Private Practices Urgent Cares Higher Education Corporate Clinics Telehealth Services Insurance Companies Correctional Facilities Indian Health Service (IHS) Facilities Why is the physician shortage growing?

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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. They do not hold an educational credential that qualifies them to diagnose and treat you.

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ABIM

APRIL 24, 2025

Chrostowski, DNP, APR-N, ANP-C , asked whether ABIM will offer continuing medical education (CME) credits through the LKA. Thousands of activities are eligible for both MOC and CME via a collaboration with the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education at cmepassport.org.

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The Motivated MD

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Housing Aside from educational debt, housing is commonly the largest expense we will make in our lives. If you wreck your only car, take the money you receive from insurance payout, supplement it with your emergency fund, and purchase an affordable car outright. The decision to purchase a home or upgrade is not to be made lightly.

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ABIM

MAY 18, 2025

Diagnostic delays, racial and ethnic health disparities, insurance barriers, and restricted access to appropriate treatments compound the emotional and physical burden of living with IBD. and globally are the cultural taboos, social stigma and lack of education about chronic digestive diseases.

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The Motivated MD

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

For example, any repairs that come up are your responsibility if your homeowner insurance doesn’t cover them. Get renters insurance Do not look at rent as ‘wasted money.’ What I am alluding to is that there are many hidden expenses associated with homeownership. Take the time to play around with these calculators.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 10, 2025

When its vaccine recommendations are approved by the CDC director, they become official public health guidance and must be covered by health insurance with no out-of-pocket costs, The Washington Post reported. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). ACIP meets in public several times each year.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Her interests include neuro-infectious diseases, transgender health and medical education. Valeria Roldán @valeroldan23 Valeria is a medical student at Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia. She was born and lives in Lima, Perú. She hopes to pursue Neurology residency. She completed her undergraduate degree at Dartmouth College.

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FDA Law Blog

MAY 19, 2025

As the Walgreens Amended Complaint notes, Pharmacists are professionally educated and trained to recognize and assess red flags and to determine whether a prescription is valid. Patients paying cash or a cash equivalent for controlled substance prescriptions, especially when they use insurance to pay for other prescriptions.

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

And so a lot of it’s the education for patients and their care partners, “This is why we’re doing the things we’re doing. Are clinicians adequately trained and educated about signs and symptoms of that right balance of knowing when to change the whole medication regimen? And Nadine, you’re cheering.

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Permanente Medicine

MAY 20, 2025

I know we go back quite a ways and that this is a very important topic for all of us to really to talk about and to be educated about. Our patients stay with us for just a really long time and longer than any other health insurance. Khang Nguyen (01:45): Thank you so much, Chris. It’s such a pleasure to speak to you again.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

A multivariate logistic regression model was used to determine associations between receiving an eye exam in the preceding 12 months and various economic, insurance-related, geographic, and social factors. Outcomes were reported as odds ratios (OR) with 95% confidence intervals (CI).

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