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An Open Letter to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. On Why Integrated Care Should Be a Cornerstone of the HHS Agenda

Integrated Care News by CFHA

At the Collaborative Family Healthcare Association (CFHA), we see your agenda aligning with ours in powerful ways. It moves away from fragmented systems, provides alternatives to medication-only treatment paths, and leads patients to practical pathways for healing—whether for anxiety, diabetes management, depression, or addiction.

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Double-Booking the Doctor is Half-Booking the Patient

A Country Doctor Writes

In today’s reality, with Meaningful Use, ACOs and Patient Centered Medical Homes, we have to screen for various conditions and risk factors, update medication lists, immunizations and family and social history in every single visit. Double booking is sometimes used as a strategy to manage no-shows. Government.

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What Does Behavioral Health Provider Practice in Primary Care Look Like? [Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness]

Annals of Family Medicine

Setting: Seven family medicine practices in one Colorado USA health system. BHPs interacted with practice team members of all roles, but spent the most time consulting with medical providers, social workers, care managers, and nurses.

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A Texas Boy Needed Protection From Measles. The Vaccine Cost $1,400.

Physician's Weekly

So, in mid-March, he took his family to a primary care clinic at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. Nguyen, who is a UTMB postdoctoral fellow in public health and infectious disease, said he asked clinic staff whether his family’s insurance would cover the checkups and immunizations. Then the bills came.

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Mental Health in Michigan: A Direct Primary Care Approach

Plum Health

Collaborative Approach: Direct primary care physicians work closely with patients, families, and other healthcare providers to develop a comprehensive care plan. When she joined our direct primary care practice, we were able to develop a personalized treatment plan that included medication management and counseling.

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Deprescribing Super Special Part II: Podcast with Elizabeth Bayliss, Ariel Green, and Kevin McConeghy

GeriPal

Liz Bayliss is Senior Investigator at Kaiser Permanente Colorado Institute for Health Research, and Professor of Family Medicine at the University of Colorado. Then you prepare the provider to have the discussion also. Eric: So, two components: you got a patient focused, sounds like component and a provider. Eric: Can I ask?

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Storycatching: Podcast with Heather Coats and Thor Ringler

GeriPal

Our loves, our triumphs, our failures, our work, our families. . So I think as palliative care clinicians, we use narrative as we try to understand more about the persons that we’re caring for and their families. Been in the hospital four times, vented, been told the story to her family, she won’t live.