Family Physicians of St. Joseph

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Larger companies now dominate the healthcare landscape, yet through innovation and a dedication to exceptional patient care, Family Physicians of St. Family Physicians of St. Family Physicians of St. From the time of its inception until October 2017, Family Physicians of St. Joseph has succeeded in doing just that.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Family physician (FP) scope of practice (SOP) has declined, with fewer physicians providing basic primary care services and fewer bridging the clinic-hospital divide. Study Design and Analysis: A longitudinal cohort was surveyed through the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM). Yet, graduating residents intend broad SOP.

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Concierge Choice Physicians

MARCH 24, 2025

Many seemed to blame physicians as much as insurers and the government for everything they experience as wrong in healthcare, from long waits to Covid-19. Physicians, particularly primary or family care doctors, value the doctor-patient relationship too. ” Their doctor makes them feel like family.

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Plum Health

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Understanding Traditional Primary Care Costs Understanding Traditional Primary Care Cos Traditional primary care operates within the insurance-based, fee-for-service model. Typical Costs in Traditional Primary Care Co-Pays and Deductibles : Each visit has a co-pay, and costs can vary widely depending on your insurance plan.

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Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

MARCH 27, 2025

As we move into the tenth week of the legislative session, Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians (MAFP) lobbyist Megan Verdeja breaks down what’s happening at the Minnesota State Capitol and provides an update on health care bills. Listing circumstances under which an individual health plan cannot be renewed.

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Plum Health

AUGUST 30, 2024

Read on to see how you can navigate insurance or skip the headache entirely by joining with a Direct Primary Care membership to Plum Health. Depending on your insurance plan, you might run into issues like formulary exclusions (where your plan doesn't cover Ozempic at all) or high copayments that make it difficult to afford.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting & Population: All clinicians in Family Medicine, Pediatrics, and Internal Medicine caring for individuals aged 22 years and younger in the Virginia All Payers Claims Database (APCD). vs. 29.5%, p<0.0001), and have lower proportions of people insured with Medicaid (44.9% Results: 20.2% vs. 47.4%, p<0.0001).

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Plum Health

MAY 19, 2023

Raquel Orlich treats a Plum Health member Are you a self-employed individual, uninsured, underinsured, or enrolled in a high deductible catastrophic health plan in the Detroit or Royal Oak area? Transparent Pricing: With DPC, you know exactly what you're paying for - no hidden costs, no complicated insurance bills.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Increasingly, health insurers, private hospitals, and even nonprofits are behaving as though they aim first to extract revenue, and only second to care for people. We should no longer be debating whether or not having health care insurance is better than not having it. Nevertheless, the U.S.

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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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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Administrative activities, including work related to caring for individual patients and clinic administration, may play a substantial role in understanding changes to primary care workload.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Intervention/Instrument: Individual semi-structured interviews of all practice staff exploring domains of CRC screening: identification of eligible patients, screening recommendation messaging, clinical conversation, test ordering, and test results follow-up. Setting or Dataset: Eight US primary care practices.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 10, 2025

Compared to those with private dental insurance, increased tooth decay would disproportionately affect publicly insured and uninsured children. For a 10-year horizon, estimates increased compared to a five-year horizon.

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Vida Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

However, there can often be a disconnect between the doctor and the patient due to lack of time to adequately explain things, different communication styles, different cultural beliefs or values, and conflicting information on the internet or from friends and family members that can create confusion. If so, why are you recommending this one?

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Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MARCH 5, 2025

Ask family and friends: If you have family members or friends who’ve been treated by an endocrinologist, ask them to recommend a good endocrinologist in your area. Contact your insurance company: If you have health insurance, ask your insurance company for a list of endocrinologists in your city or county that accept your coverage.

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Plum Health

OCTOBER 6, 2024

In a traditional healthcare setup, doctors are often overwhelmed with large patient rosters, leaving them with limited time for each individual. One of my favorite success stories involves a patient who had a strong family history of diabetes. In a concierge model, however, I had the time to help him develop a proactive health plan.

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Vascular Physician

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Increased oxygen supply can also help individuals suffering from air embolism, decompression sickness, burns, cerebral edema, diabetic wounds, gas gangrene, stroke, and many others. HBO is covered by most insurance plans and is considered a cost-effective tool to treat limbs that may otherwise be destined for amputation.

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Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

APRIL 22, 2025

As we move into the eleventh week of the legislative session, Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians (MAFP) lobbyist Megan Verdeja breaks down what’s happening at the Minnesota State Capitol, provides an update on health care bills and shares what to expect next in the legislative session. Mandating insurance coverage of vasectomies.

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The Motivated MD

OCTOBER 3, 2024

So, I started listening to podcasts and videos about filing flood insurance and homeowners insurance claims. Unfortunately, this led me down a path of unpaid claims, hurricane horror stories, and insurance company fraud. I would then subsequently file a claim with my homeowners and flood insurance.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 3, 2023

During this episode, we hear from Dr. Nav Persaud, a staff physician in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at St. The dehumanization of individuals of color at the margins of society by the healthcare system is not simply a thing of the past, and is certainly a persistent phenomenon.

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The Motivated MD

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The decision to rent or buy a home is the root of much anxiety in many individuals’ lives. I overhear individuals say things like ‘owning a home is the best investment you can make,’ and’ if you are renting, you are just ‘throwing your money away.’

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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. 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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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%.

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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. By the way.

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PEMBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Have a detailed discussion with the patient and family and do shared decision making in terms of interventions, the GI does, and again, these will be the gold standards. So in the odd, rare scenario where you have a family member being treated for H. So, a kid with mild symptoms, and you want to rule out gallbladder disease?

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GeriPal

MAY 5, 2022

We talk with Nick and Meg about: Why hearing loss is important not just in geriatrics but also for those caring for seriously ill individuals. Communication techniques we can use when talking to individuals with hearing loss. But individuals who have hearing loss, there’s several problems. How to screen for hearing loss.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

MAY 30, 2025

The US Preventive Services Task Force , the American Academy of Family Physicians , and the American College of Chest Physicians recommend annual low-dose computed tomography (CT) screening for adults 50 to 80 years of age who have at least a 20 pack-year smoking history and currently smoke or have smoked within the past 15 years.

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Permanente Medicine

JUNE 3, 2025

I practice family and sports medicine as part of the Southern California Permanente Medical Group here in Fontana, California. WM: Like you, I’m a family physician. Access is so important because that is the reason the patient signs up with health insurance is so that they can get care, whether primary or specialty.

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Vida Family Medicine

MARCH 28, 2024

They are also costly and subject to variable insurance coverage, leading many med spas and compounding pharmacies to offer compounded versions of these FDA-approved medications with varying degrees of safety. There is a lot of information and a lot of marketing out there creating a lot of confusion.

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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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Alabama Academy of Family Physicians

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

As the 2025 legislative session swings into full gear, the Alabama Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) has set its sights on a cadre of pivotal bills set to shape the healthcare landscape for years to come. Additionally, health insurers would be barred from taking adverse action against providers for providing cost transparency.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

Eric: So in some ways, this is kind of like the VA, where you don’t have to follow Medicare guidelines, but you can actually actively do concurrent care for these individuals. In many cases, the families were the victims of the crime. They can stroll out into… We have a beautiful garden space for family.

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Plum Health

OCTOBER 16, 2024

In Lansing , patients appreciate the clinic’s ability to accommodate busy professionals and students, while in Royal Oak , families trust the clinic for their children’s pediatric care. Royal Oak families trust the clinic for both pediatric and adult primary care, making it a true family-friendly option.

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FDA Law

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The imposition of insurance-related hurdles beyond FDA approval, such as time-consuming prior authorizations or costly co-payments, can impede access to critical health care, such as contraceptives. In some instances, however, this is only the first hurdle to make innovative products available to patients. 300gg-13(a)(4).

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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. It sets space between us and the individuals we’re trying to take care of.

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GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

For example, putting the healthy food at the back of the grocery store is sludge; making an applicant for health insurance climb the flight of stairs to the office – weeding out those less fit – is also sludge. We tested two different nudges individually and then we combined them. Prior-auth forms? I highly encourage you.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

We start off the conversation by talking about whether patients with cancer and cancer pain are really that different, and their paper that was just published on January 11 th in JAMA Oncology showing that substance use disorder is not uncommon in individuals with cancer. Have you had a family history of substance use disorder?

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