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Practice and Community-Level Variations in Primary Care Panel Size [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

We adjusted for missing commercial insurance claims and excluded outliers (clinicians seeing <100 patients or >7500 patients in a year). There were variations by PCP specialty, including Internal Medicine (1311), Obgyn (1586), Family Medicine (1608), and Pediatrics (1747).

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

Physician's Practice

Insurance Denials and Prior Authorizations (00:11:26)** Challenges with insurance coverage, prior authorizations, and evolving insurer policies for GLP-1 prescriptions.

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Pearls profiles: Get to know Neil Baum, MD

Physician's Practice

Recent Videos Related Content Decoding malpractice premiums: Insider insights every physician should know Jennifer Wiggins June 27th 2025 Article Check out these essential insights on controlling malpractice insurance premiums, including specialty impact, location factors, policy types and available discounts for physicians.

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Bathrooms “R” Us

Physician's Practice

Recent Videos Related Content Decoding malpractice premiums: Insider insights every physician should know Jennifer Wiggins June 27th 2025 Article Check out these essential insights on controlling malpractice insurance premiums, including specialty impact, location factors, policy types and available discounts for physicians.

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Lead, follow or get out of the way

Physician's Practice

After learning that the insurance company (trying to play doctor) recommends a generic drug that is less effective and has more adverse effects because it does not carry the more expensive drug on its formulary, this gives the doctor cause for concern for their patient.