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Exploring Primary Care Provider eConsult Utilization Trends [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

Objective: To determine how primary care providers (PCP) utilize the eConsult platform. Setting or Dataset: CUSOM and University Hospital. Top utilizers were defined as PCPs with ordering volume in the 75th percentile. A subset of top utilizers contained 264 unique PCPs who ordered 18,972 eConsults.

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AAFP Represents Members During 2025 Legislative Session

Alabama Academy of Family Physicians

What Happened: The Senate Committee on Finance and Taxation Education did not meet to discuss the bill. HB 86 – Rural Hospital Investment Fund Bill What’s in the Bill: Sponsored by Rep. Under this program, qualifying hospitals would receive gifts to support their provision of acute care services to rural populations.

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Should Recent Weather Events Impact Your Emergency Fund?

The Motivated MD

However, this is a personal finance blog, and for me, it goes beyond that. Helene highlighted that even wealthy communities and well-financed and well-educated populations can be caught off guard and devastated. You have all seen it over the past week. The destruction was truly apocalyptic. Whole rural towns were wiped off the map.

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A true story of payer negotiations

Physician's Practice

Physicians, whether in small practices or employed by hospitals, face a daunting challenge when trying to get a payer to approve a medication, procedure or imaging study. The standard of care was hospital admission and surgical ablation of the obstruction to urine flow. The cost of the hospital procedure was $25,000 to $35,000.

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Lead, follow or get out of the way

Physician's Practice

Those who pave new roads and create new paths find the connections between what others have done and what works in their practices. Dr. Christian Chaussy, a urologist in Munich, Germany, noted pitting on the surface of an aircraft as it approached the sound barrier—a unique occurrence caused by the shock wave created in front of a drop of moisture.

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How Doctors Can Save More and Do Less

The Motivated MD

I have coined this content series Doctor Money: A Personal Finance Guide for Physicians , as this is my current working title. This week, we will focus on how doctors can automate their finances to remove their emotions and effortlessly save for many of their goals. This is the same for personal finances. Fight this temptation.

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

GeriPal

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. Welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Mike. I hope I got that right. Mike: You got it right. Great to be back.

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