Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

Since she was still working, she thought her employer health insurance plan would cover her. More than a year after her riding accident, Diamond was back at the emergency room after she tripped on a step while entering a New York restaurant. This time, though, the insurance coverage wasn’t routine.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 24, 2025

Kim Beckham, an insurance agent in Victoria, Texas, had seen friends suffer so badly from shingles that she wanted to receive the first approved shingles vaccine as soon as it became available, even if she had to pay for it out-of-pocket. The new studies are coming at a fraught political moment. The nation’s health secretary, Robert F.

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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. Well, if you are like me, you’ve probably heard of these programs but are at a loss to know exactly what they do. But, what you need is a community-based game there. You go back home.

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Doctors for America

MAY 30, 2025

For nearly 40 years, EMTALA has been understood by medical providers and the federal government — including both Democratic and Republican administrations — to require abortion care when that care is needed to stabilize pregnant patients in a medical crisis. Find out more at doctorsforamerica.org and on BlueSky @drsforamerica.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

You come over to the clinic, you go to the hospital, you provide service, and the insurance and you negotiate how much you’re going to get paid. That never happens in CMS and other health insurance. The typical utilization of inappropriate hospitalization and emergency room and total cost of care. Diane: Huge.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

Diminished reimbursements from the state-federal health insurance program for those with low incomes or disabilities would further erode hospitals’ ability to stay open and maintain services for their communities — populations with more severe health needs than their urban counterparts.

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Physician's Weekly

JULY 1, 2025

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. Government-backed universal coverage has eluded U.S. “There is no help for middle-class America,” he said.

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