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Caring for the underserved: The National Health Service Corps

The Health Policy Exchange

Currently, the collective impacts of the individual and employer mandates and guaranteed insurance issue provisions of the Affordable Care Act on underserved communities remain uncertain. Health Policy Fellowship Department of Family Medicine Georgetown University School of Medicine Phillips, Jr.

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Risking It All For a New Business Model at Family Physicians of St. Joe

Family Physicians of St. Joseph

Direct Primary Care is owned and operated by Doctors Michael Eggebrecht, Leanne Mancini, Allison Meadows, and James Gendernalik. Joseph, the family medicine practice is committed to providing exceptional, affordable, patient-centered primary care in SW Michigan without reliance on insurance companies for payment of services.

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Lung cancer screening in primary care: more pragmatic research needed

Common Sense Family Doctor

Despite private and public insurance plans fully covering lung cancer screening in the United States, only 10% to 30% of eligible individuals in were receiving it in a recent state-by-state survey.