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

Family Physicians of St. Joseph

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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Have Job-Based Health Coverage at 65? You May Still Want To Sign Up for Medicare

Physician's Weekly

It also covered related pain management and physical therapy after she returned home to New York City. Since she was still working, she thought her employer health insurance plan would cover her. This time, though, the insurance coverage wasn’t routine. The bills totaled more than $100,000. The bill for that care: $12,000.

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A patient’s perspective: The evolving landscape of IBD

ABIM

With no family history and little cultural awareness of the disease, I was left wondering why or how this had happened to me. 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.

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The association between inability to afford to see a doctor and days of poor physical or mental health among adults in Ohio. [Social determinants and vulnerable populations]

Annals of Family Medicine

Objective: This study assessed the association between the inability to afford to see a doctor and days of poor physical or mental health among adults in Ohio. An interaction was added to the regression model to estimate if insurance type moderated the effect.

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Physician Felons: How to Stay Out of Prison

Pamela Wible MD

Here are 11 unforgettable cases involving my friends & family—with hard lessons learned. His license revoked, his high-risk patients left without care, Aaron was sentenced to more than a year in federal prison for insurance fraud. government convicted him for distributing controlled substances. I warned her to steer clear.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

GeriPal

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” Malaz: I love it.

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What’s next for value-based care

Permanente Medicine

And then I’m also joined by my colleague Dr. Nolan Chang, and he is a board-certified family medicine physician and executive vice president of Strategy, Corporate Development and Finance for The Permanente Federation. But in Kaiser Permanente, Steve or I and others as Permanente physicians, you have to have KP insurance.