Finance, Healthcare and Patients - Primary Care Digest

Profiling patterns of patient experiences of access to care and continuity at team-based primary healthcare clinics [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Access to primary healthcare services is a core lever for reducing health inequalities. The ability to reach and engage in the care process varies considerably depending on patients’ socio-demographic characteristics which we need to understand to address inequitable access issues.

Healthcare

Healthcare Clinic Chronic Condition Finance

Enhancing Advanced Access in Primary Healthcare: Key Change Strategies from a Quality Improvement Initiative [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Timely access is crucial for high-quality primary healthcare delivery, yet remains a pervasive challenge globally, including in Canada. year Quality Improvement initiative aimed at enhancing AA in multidisciplinary primary healthcare. Objective: To delineate key change strategies from a 3.5-year

Healthcare

Healthcare Nurse Practitioner Finance Appointment

Enhancing primary healthcare capacity : A qualitative study from the perspective of managers of PHC institutions in China [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Community health services constitute the cornerstone of China's primary healthcare system. Since the recent healthcare reforms, significant strides have been made in the development of community health services across the country.

Healthcare

Healthcare Management Finance Chronic Disease

Organizational Dehumanization of Nurses in Healthcare Systems: A Scoping Review [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

However, much of the published research on dehumanization in the healthcare system is limited to the experience of patients, leaving that of nurses poorly understood. This feeling could be indicative of experiences of organizational dehumanization, a phenomenon receiving increasing attention in organizational psychology. Study Design.

Healthcare

Healthcare Finance Consulting Patients

Facilitating Well-Being in Primary Healthcare During COVID-19: A Rapid Systematic Review [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: The COVID-19 pandemic increased critical levels of turnover of healthcare workers in interdisciplinary primary healthcare (PHC) teams, including family physicians, nurses, social workers, and others.

Healthcare

Healthcare Finance Family Physician Provider

Patient Journey Mapping: How Attached and Unattached Community Members Access Primary Care [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Study Design & Analysis: A two phase qualitative methodology employed one-on-one interviews and focus groups wherein participants responded to an iterated patient journey map, contributing their comments and experiences. Framework analysis was employed to examine the patient experience in-depth.

Primary Care

Primary Care Community Finance Patients

Factors associated with patients' experience of access to their primary health care clinic: a multilevel analysis [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Understanding patients’ experience accessing primary health care (PHC) is necessary in order to move toward better service organization and more equitable PHC access. A total of 122,397 patients and 999 family physicians, 107 nurse practitioners and 411 administrative staff nested into 104 clinics answered the survey.

Nurse Practitioner

Nurse Practitioner Clinic Family Physician Finance

Sickle Cell Crises: A Deep Dive into Patterns of Readmissions at an Academic Medical Center [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

We noted that a small number of patients are readmitted multiple times. This indicates poor quality of life (QOL) for SCD patients and a high financial burden on the healthcare system. ranging from 2 to 77; 65% were female, and all patients were black ethnicity. The highest admission rate per patient was 59 over 4 years.

Finance

Finance Medical Patient-Centered Healthcare

Translating complex clinical environments to virtual care: Standards of Care in Virtual Medicine in Canada [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Improvements in implementation of virtual care are needed across Canada for safer, equitable and accessible healthcare. When establishing a Patient-Physician relationship the disclosure of the patient's location, identity and verification of a safe physical setting was not mandatory across all jurisdictions.

Finance

Finance Telemedicine Relationship Government

Access to health care and services for the Deaf: A scoping review of reviews [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

A patient partner from the Deaf community collaborated on each step of this project. Reviews were identified through a search of scientific electronic databases: MEDLINE, CINAHL, PsycInfo, AMED, Healthcare Administration Database, ABI/INFORM Collection, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Epistemonikos, and Scopus.

Finance

Finance Community Consulting Primary Care

The Positive Impact of Direct Primary Care on Employer Healthcare Spending

Plum Health

JULY 6, 2023

In the ever-evolving landscape of healthcare, Direct Primary Care and Subscription-based Primary Care are emerging as promising models that could significantly benefit both employers and employees. These models simplify the healthcare business by removing insurance companies from basic primary care.

Primary Care

Primary Care Healthcare Insurance Finance

Mapping Patient Access to Care and Quality of Care based on Distance from Family Physician [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: In Ontario, patients who move increasingly keep their family physician (FP) because no one in their new community is accepting new patients, creating long distances to seek primary care. Study Design: A cross-sectional analysis of patients and FPs in Ontario from April 1, 2021, to March 31, 2023.

Family Physician

Family Physician Primary Care Families Family

Patient experiences using primary care wait lists in Canada: A qualitative study [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Primary healthcare is the front door to the health system, facilitating access to diagnostic testing and specialist care. Patients without a regular primary care provider (a family physician or nurse practitioner) are considered "unattached,". Relevant data, pertaining specifically to patients, were analyzed thematically.

Primary Care

Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Finance Patients

" Healthcare organizations administrative policies are just too rigid. ": why nurses leave primary and emergency care [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Nursing shortage is a major issue for healthcare systems. Large scale nurse turnover is costly, is associated with both reduced productivity and poorer patient outcomes. Primary and emergency care are no exception. Understanding of the reasons for nurse turnover has become a pressing issue.

Healthcare

Healthcare Primary Care Finance Individual

Exploring the Varied Effects of Patient-PCP Continuity on ER Utilization and Costs [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Continuity of care between a patient and their primary care practitioner (PCP) is a cornerstone of primary care (PC) and is associated with many positive health outcomes including decreased utilization of ER services and lower costs for some populations. Patients were attributed to the PCPs with whom they had the most visits.

PCP

PCP PCP ER Utilities

Impact of an Intensive Primary Care Service on Health Services Utilization in a High-Utilizer Patient Population [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: High-utilizer patient populations reflect poor health for those patients and high resource use for health systems. Few studies of high-utilization patient programs found improvements in the intervention groups compared to controls. Patients in both groups averaged approximately 12 ED visits, 5.7

Utilities

Utilities Primary Care Finance Patients

My Green Doctor Begins Pilot with Weill Cornell Medicine

My Green Doctor

MAY 29, 2025

We’re pleased to share that Weill Cornell Medicine, one of the nation’s most respected academic medical institutions, has begun a small-scale pilot of the My Green Doctor program—an important step toward building a more sustainable healthcare future. It is already impacting public health, health equity, and healthcare delivery systems.

Healthcare

Healthcare Finance Education Community

Payer Mix Association with Primary Care Telehealth Service Trajectories [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Previous studies documented that the type of insurance coverage was associated with the likelihood of a patient receiving care through telehealth. Population Studied: 5,373 healthcare providers in Arkansas. The primary exposure was the percentage of Medicaid patients’ claims at clinic level.

Telehealth

Telehealth Primary Care Finance Insurance

Innovations in providing and accessing preventative primary care for young children during COVID-19 [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Research has shown that in some locations, primary care services were able to resume and recover to pre-pandemic visit rates for patients < 6 years old shortly after the initial lockdown in March/April 2020. Data was analyzed using qualitative content analysis. Setting: Ontario and Quebec, Canada.

Primary Care

Primary Care Provider Finance Healthcare

Manifestation of Primary Care Features in Shanghais Family Doctor Service and Their Impact on Health: A Mixed-Methods Study [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The qualitative phase consisted of focus group interviews exploring patients’ experiences and the impact of primary care functional features on health, with integration through meta-synthesis and joint display for meta-inferences. Setting: Primary care settings in Shanghai, China. 1.32), confirmed by instrumental variable tests.

Primary Care

Primary Care Family Doctor Family Families

Beyond Training: How Context Matters for Early Detection of Alzheimers Disease in Primary Care [Screening, prevention, and health promotion]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Global healthcare systems are not prepared to care for the 55 million individuals worldwide affected by Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD), with cases continuing to rise. clinical consensus, financing mechanisms) and the organization (e.g.,

Primary Care

Primary Care Screening Healthcare Finance

MN Legislative Session 2025: Key Health Policy Updates

Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

MARCH 7, 2025

Mid-Year Formulary Changes (HF 1652/SF 1806): Seeks to prohibit health insurers from making mid-year changes to their drug formularies, ensuring stable access to prescribed medications for patients. Healthcare Access Fund (SF 1572): Proposes an assessment on health plans to support MinnesotaCare and Medical Assistance programs.

Mental Health

Mental Health Finance Primary Care Insurance

Oregon-based medical group Northwest Permanente announces affiliation with The Permanente Medical Group of Northern California

Permanente Medicine

APRIL 16, 2025

NWP and TPMG are physician-led, independent Permanente Medical Groups who partner exclusively with Kaiser Foundation Health Plan to provide care for their patients in Oregon, southwest Washington, and Northern California. Most transactions are largely focused on size, scale, and finance.

Medical

Medical Patient-Centered Community Hospital

Tech upgrade success: 6 rules every practice should follow

Physician's Practice

JUNE 23, 2025

Topics Access and Reimbursement Billing & Collections Coding & Documentation Finance Law & Malpractice MedMal by Coverys Patient Engagement & Communications Staffing & Salary Technology Media Video & Interviews Podcasts Medical World News Pearls Surveys Best States to Practice Great American Physician Survey Staff Salary Survey (..)

Management

Management Patients Electronics Finance

Misconceptions of Employer Sponsored Direct Primary Care (DPC)

Plum Health

MAY 22, 2023

Employers are increasingly finding that DPC offers a personalized doctor-patient relationship, comprehensive preventive care, and overall cost savings. As employees change their healthcare usage behavior, both primary and specialty care claims decrease. Membership can be offered anytime, and employees can join at their convenience.

Primary Care

Primary Care PCP PCP Insurance

Are your patients satisfied?

Physician's Practice

JUNE 25, 2025

Topics Access and Reimbursement Billing & Collections Coding & Documentation Finance Law & Malpractice MedMal by Coverys Patient Engagement & Communications Staffing & Salary Technology Media Video & Interviews Podcasts Medical World News Pearls Surveys Best States to Practice Great American Physician Survey Staff Salary Survey (..)

Patients

Patients Private Practice Management Healthcare

Be The Market: How Doctors Should Invest Their Money

The Motivated MD

OCTOBER 10, 2024

As I continue onward in my journey writing a physician finance guide one chapter at a time, I wanted to tackle investing. With increasing emphasis on patient turnover and documentation, all while navigating the complexities of billing and authorization, our jobs are stressful and time-consuming. Most clinical physicians are busy.

Finance

Finance Individual Management IT

Practice tip of the week: Hiring a marketing consultant

Physician's Practice

JUNE 23, 2025

Topics Access and Reimbursement Billing & Collections Coding & Documentation Finance Law & Malpractice MedMal by Coverys Patient Engagement & Communications Staffing & Salary Technology Media Video & Interviews Podcasts Medical World News Pearls Surveys Best States to Practice Great American Physician Survey Staff Salary Survey (..)

Consulting

Consulting Management Private Practice Diabetes

Agitation Podcast Series Episode 5: Management of the child with mental health problems who is boarded in the ED

PEMBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of an award (U07MC37471) totaling $3M with 0 percent financed with nongovernmental sources. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of an award (U07MC37471) totaling $3M with 0 percent financed with nongovernmental sources. Government. 10.1542/peds.2022-057383

Mental Health

Mental Health Management Patient-Centered Illness

9 zero-budget staff motivators that beat a pay raise

Physician's Practice

JUNE 6, 2025

Topics Access and Reimbursement Billing & Collections Coding & Documentation Finance Law & Malpractice MedMal by Coverys Patient Engagement & Communications Staffing & Salary Technology Media Video & Interviews Podcasts Medical World News Pearls Surveys Best States to Practice Great American Physician Survey Staff Salary Survey (..)

Management

Management Finance Patients Healthcare

Health and Wealth Shocks: Lauren Hunt, Rebecca Rodin, Tsai-Chin Cho

GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

And then when you see clinically patients coming into hospital, they’ll have, you know, they’ll be admitted for aspiration pneumonia. Eric 12:03 I’m interested in that because I hear a lot about people losing their, like, one way, like people get health issue and then lose all their finances, especially in the U.S.

Illness

Illness Hospital IT Patient-Centered

Physicians Practice digital edition: The top challenges for practices today

Physician's Practice

JUNE 9, 2025

Topics Access and Reimbursement Billing & Collections Coding & Documentation Finance Law & Malpractice MedMal by Coverys Patient Engagement & Communications Staffing & Salary Technology Media Video & Interviews Podcasts Medical World News Pearls Surveys Best States to Practice Great American Physician Survey Staff Salary Survey (..)

Management

Management Patients Healthcare Medical

A true story of payer negotiations

Physician's Practice

JUNE 9, 2025

Topics Access and Reimbursement Billing & Collections Coding & Documentation Finance Law & Malpractice MedMal by Coverys Patient Engagement & Communications Staffing & Salary Technology Media Video & Interviews Podcasts Medical World News Pearls Surveys Best States to Practice Great American Physician Survey Staff Salary Survey (..)

Management

Management Healthcare Experience Patients Hospital

Lead, follow or get out of the way

Physician's Practice

JUNE 20, 2025

Topics Access and Reimbursement Billing & Collections Coding & Documentation Finance Law & Malpractice MedMal by Coverys Patient Engagement & Communications Staffing & Salary Technology Media Video & Interviews Podcasts Medical World News Pearls Surveys Best States to Practice Great American Physician Survey Staff Salary Survey (..)

Management

Management Patient-Centered Appointment Patients

9 design tweaks to refresh your practice

Physician's Practice

JUNE 24, 2025

Topics Access and Reimbursement Billing & Collections Coding & Documentation Finance Law & Malpractice MedMal by Coverys Patient Engagement & Communications Staffing & Salary Technology Media Video & Interviews Podcasts Medical World News Pearls Surveys Best States to Practice Great American Physician Survey Staff Salary Survey (..)

Management

Management Patients Consulting Finance

11 device policy essentials to keep your practice secure

Physician's Practice

JUNE 19, 2025

Topics Access and Reimbursement Billing & Collections Coding & Documentation Finance Law & Malpractice MedMal by Coverys Patient Engagement & Communications Staffing & Salary Technology Media Video & Interviews Podcasts Medical World News Pearls Surveys Best States to Practice Great American Physician Survey Staff Salary Survey (..)

Management

Management Patients Screening Finance

Practice tip of the week: Be an on-time physician

Physician's Practice

JUNE 16, 2025

Topics Access and Reimbursement Billing & Collections Coding & Documentation Finance Law & Malpractice MedMal by Coverys Patient Engagement & Communications Staffing & Salary Technology Media Video & Interviews Podcasts Medical World News Pearls Surveys Best States to Practice Great American Physician Survey Staff Salary Survey (..)

Management

Management Private Practice Patients Medical

Top Challenges 2025: Practice administrators face growing uncertainty

Physician's Practice

JUNE 9, 2025

Topics Access and Reimbursement Billing & Collections Coding & Documentation Finance Law & Malpractice MedMal by Coverys Patient Engagement & Communications Staffing & Salary Technology Media Video & Interviews Podcasts Medical World News Pearls Surveys Best States to Practice Great American Physician Survey Staff Salary Survey (..)

Chronic Disease Management

Chronic Disease Management Management Chronic Disease Patients

Practice tip of the week: Strategic planning mistakes

Physician's Practice

JUNE 9, 2025

Topics Access and Reimbursement Billing & Collections Coding & Documentation Finance Law & Malpractice MedMal by Coverys Patient Engagement & Communications Staffing & Salary Technology Media Video & Interviews Podcasts Medical World News Pearls Surveys Best States to Practice Great American Physician Survey Staff Salary Survey (..)

Management

Management Private Practice Patients Medical

Ep. 68: Hidden risks of prescribing GLP-1 drugs with Ericka L. Adler, J.D., of Roetzel & Andress

Physician's Practice

JUNE 9, 2025

68: Hidden risks of prescribing GLP-1 drugs with Ericka L. 68: Hidden risks of prescribing GLP-1 drugs with Ericka L. 68: Hidden risks of prescribing GLP-1 drugs with Ericka L. 68: Hidden risks of prescribing GLP-1 drugs with Ericka L. 68: Hidden risks of prescribing GLP-1 drugs with Ericka L.

Management

Management Telemedicine Patients Insurance

250,000 Preventable Deaths Every Year: Why Climate and Health Must Be Funded Together

My Green Doctor

MAY 29, 2025

The EIB developed a first-of-its-kind tool to quantify how climate hazards like heatwaves, floods, and poor air quality will drive up healthcare demand across Europe. In the United States, extreme weather events and air pollution are already costing the healthcare system over $820 billion annually. So what’s the path forward?

Healthcare Professional

Healthcare Professional Healthcare Finance Education

Episode 223: Anti-Racism in Medicine Series – Episode 14 – Race, Place, and Health: Clinician and Community Perspectives

The Clinical Problem Solvers

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Take time to learn from your patients. Our patients are not just a list of problems. She encourages us to see beyond these problems, and ask patients about their lives, challenges, and successes. Warford centered the conversation and reminded the audience that it is not just healthcare systems that are being pushed to the brink.

Community

Community Individual Mental Health IT

Improving Nursing Home Quality: Jasmine Travers, Alice Bonner, Isaac Longobardi, and Mike Wasserman

GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary In April 2022, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) issued a report on how the United States delivers, regulates, finances, and measures the quality of nursing home care. I know you’ve been a strong advocate for nursing home patients particularly in California.

Finance

Finance Board-Certified IT Provider

Involving the inner circle: Emily Largent, Anne Rohlfing, Lynn Flint & Anne Kelly

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary You know when you walk out of a patient’s room and have that sense, “This isn’t going to go well.” The patient is sick and getting sicker, and refuses to let you talk with family or other members of her inner circle. Should you stop at “no?” Lynn: I do. Alex, can you play Send the Sun, by Nikki Lane?

Families

Families Family Patient-Centered IT

Profiling patterns of patient experiences of access to care and continuity at team-based primary healthcare clinics [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Enhancing Advanced Access in Primary Healthcare: Key Change Strategies from a Quality Improvement Initiative [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

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Enhancing primary healthcare capacity : A qualitative study from the perspective of managers of PHC institutions in China [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Organizational Dehumanization of Nurses in Healthcare Systems: A Scoping Review [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Facilitating Well-Being in Primary Healthcare During COVID-19: A Rapid Systematic Review [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Patient Journey Mapping: How Attached and Unattached Community Members Access Primary Care [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Factors associated with patients' experience of access to their primary health care clinic: a multilevel analysis [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Sickle Cell Crises: A Deep Dive into Patterns of Readmissions at an Academic Medical Center [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Translating complex clinical environments to virtual care: Standards of Care in Virtual Medicine in Canada [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Access to health care and services for the Deaf: A scoping review of reviews [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

The Positive Impact of Direct Primary Care on Employer Healthcare Spending

Mapping Patient Access to Care and Quality of Care based on Distance from Family Physician [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Patient experiences using primary care wait lists in Canada: A qualitative study [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

" Healthcare organizations administrative policies are just too rigid. ": why nurses leave primary and emergency care [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Exploring the Varied Effects of Patient-PCP Continuity on ER Utilization and Costs [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Impact of an Intensive Primary Care Service on Health Services Utilization in a High-Utilizer Patient Population [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

My Green Doctor Begins Pilot with Weill Cornell Medicine

Payer Mix Association with Primary Care Telehealth Service Trajectories [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Innovations in providing and accessing preventative primary care for young children during COVID-19 [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Manifestation of Primary Care Features in Shanghais Family Doctor Service and Their Impact on Health: A Mixed-Methods Study [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Beyond Training: How Context Matters for Early Detection of Alzheimers Disease in Primary Care [Screening, prevention, and health promotion]

MN Legislative Session 2025: Key Health Policy Updates

Oregon-based medical group Northwest Permanente announces affiliation with The Permanente Medical Group of Northern California

Tech upgrade success: 6 rules every practice should follow

Misconceptions of Employer Sponsored Direct Primary Care (DPC)

Are your patients satisfied?

Be The Market: How Doctors Should Invest Their Money

Practice tip of the week: Hiring a marketing consultant

Agitation Podcast Series Episode 5: Management of the child with mental health problems who is boarded in the ED

9 zero-budget staff motivators that beat a pay raise

Health and Wealth Shocks: Lauren Hunt, Rebecca Rodin, Tsai-Chin Cho

Physicians Practice digital edition: The top challenges for practices today

A true story of payer negotiations

Lead, follow or get out of the way

9 design tweaks to refresh your practice

11 device policy essentials to keep your practice secure

Practice tip of the week: Be an on-time physician

Top Challenges 2025: Practice administrators face growing uncertainty

Practice tip of the week: Strategic planning mistakes

Ep. 68: Hidden risks of prescribing GLP-1 drugs with Ericka L. Adler, J.D., of Roetzel & Andress

250,000 Preventable Deaths Every Year: Why Climate and Health Must Be Funded Together

Episode 223: Anti-Racism in Medicine Series – Episode 14 – Race, Place, and Health: Clinician and Community Perspectives

Improving Nursing Home Quality: Jasmine Travers, Alice Bonner, Isaac Longobardi, and Mike Wasserman

Involving the inner circle: Emily Largent, Anne Rohlfing, Lynn Flint & Anne Kelly

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