Annals of Family Medicine
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
We adjusted for missing commercial insurance claims and excluded outliers (clinicians seeing <100 patients or >7500 patients in a year). Rural PCPs tended to manage larger panels than their urban counterparts (1512 vs. 1409, p<0.01).
Alabama Academy of Family Physicians
MAY 15, 2025
What Happened: The Senate Committee on Finance and Taxation Education did not meet to discuss the bill. HB 477 – ALFA Health Plan Bill What’s in the Bill: House Bill 477 would allow the Alabama Farmers Federation (ALFA) to offer health benefit plans exclusively to its members outside of state insurance regulations.
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Annals of Family Medicine
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
Context: Cost is a critical consideration in weight management, but cost conversations can be challenging for clinicians to initiate. Outcome Measures: Key themes related to cost conversations in weight management. Objective: To identify communication strategies for initiating conversations about cost during WPVs.
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. In particular, Republican members of the committee expressed concerns on whether a new tax on health plans may impact health insurance rates.
Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians
APRIL 22, 2025
LEGISLATIVE DEADLINES REACHED We came to the end of the legislature’s third deadline last week, which means all bills with a fiscal impact in each committee needed to be voted out and sent to the Finance Committee in the Senate and the Ways and Means Committee in the House. Mandating insurance coverage of vasectomies.
The Motivated MD
DECEMBER 18, 2024
Though I adhere to commonly agreed upon personal finance advice such as living ‘like a resident’ and well below your means, if you are overly frugal, you will deprive yourself of the enjoyment that is deserved when your income grows. Allowing ourselves to spend our hard-earned money is critical to finding happiness in our careers.
Plum Health
MAY 22, 2023
Misconception #1: DPC Adds Extra Costs to Existing Health Insurance The fact is, for employers operating self-funded programs, the DPC investment redirects claims costs. Overall, DPC replaces insurance-based, FFS products with a patient-centric, relationship-driven model of care where the interests align with the patient and employer.
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