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. The 2025 Alabama Legislative Session concluded on May 14 at midnight. During the session, the Alabama Academy of Family Physicians actively represented the interests of its members on a range of healthcare initiatives.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Comprehensiveness is a central element of primary care and family medicine but has not been clearly and consistently conceptualized in literature. The lack of an encompassing framework for comprehensiveness reduces our ability to measure and evaluate its presence and impact in primary care delivery.

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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.

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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. The omnibus bill includes many of the MAFP’s priorities.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

CA findings expanded on interviews and identified three approaches that clinicians use to initiate cost conversations: 1) cost-related pronouncements ("I’m gonna prescribe this as X so it’s covered by insurance"), 2) cost-related inquiries ("Do you still have the GoodRX coupon?"), and 3) generic inquiries ("Any issues?").

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objectives: To identify challenges and facilitators to collaborations between a NPO and primary healthcare partners. Study design: An instrumental case study design. Setting: A NPO and its partners in the healthcare (primary care clinics), social services, and community networks in a rural context.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Conclusions. Nurses leaving the primary and emergency care are experienced. The loss of expertise that results from their departure is a major challenge for access to care and services. It is therefore important to take account of their professional dissatisfactions to reduce turnover and improve nurses’ attraction.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Conclusions: Our findings will offer a comprehensive examination of the factors influencing the quality of patient care experiences within EDs and how patient demographics and the geographical location of the ED affect it.

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My Green Doctor

MAY 29, 2025

Since its launch in 2010, MGD has been helping healthcare clinics, offices, and systems around the world make practical, measurable progress toward environmental sustainability—without compromising patient care, staff efficiency, or clinic finances. MGD by the Numbers: 30 health professional societies offer MGD as a free membership benefit.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Physicians aligned with the latter philosophy were predominantly women, often racialized, and sometimes immigrants to Canada. Conclusions: Attention to intersectional experience highlights how income is influenced by social location. It provides explanatory evidence for quantitative findings of various pay gaps among Canadian physicians.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Study Design and Analysis: Employing a mixed-methods explanatory sequential design, the study involved a quantitative phase that calculated the person-centered primary care measure (PCPCM) score and its correlation with EQ VAS scores using a two-stage random sampling method.

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NPR Health

MARCH 25, 2025

The former TV doctor made it through a tight vote in the Senate Finance committee with only Republican support. Image credit: Anna Moneymaker)

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Physician's Practice

JUNE 3, 2025

Discover five critical signs indicating it's time to part ways with underperforming employees, safeguarding your practice's reputation and finances.

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The Motivated MD

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

My passion for writing personal finance content was losing way to productivity and the compulsion to keep up with my competitors. Commonly I felt like I was just reiterating what so many others in the physician finance niche were saying while feeling like I had somehow already addressed the topic.

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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. Part of being an intelligent investor is learning the most efficient way to invest your excess income wisely with as little effort as possible. These claims are, of course, bogus. This is where risk tolerance factors in.

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CDOCS

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

<p><span style="font-size:16px;"><em>Patient financing made easy with transparent payment options, competitive APRs, and monthly payment plans.</em></span></p> &ldquo;Our team of account managers works with providers to optimize their patient financing strategy.&rdquo;</span></p>

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Permanente Medicine

JUNE 23, 2025

Who: Ceci Connolly, president and CEO, Alliance of Community Health Plans Nolan Chang, MD, EVP of Strategy, Corporate Development, and Finance, The Permanente Federation Stephen Parodi, MD, EVP of External Affairs, Communications, and Brand, The Permanente Federation (Host) What: “Permanente Live: Finding success in value-based care.”

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CDOCS

JULY 20, 2021

In our office, many patients need help with financing, especially when it comes to full-mouth treatment plans or any procedure over a few thousand dollars.</span></p> Usually, it takes very little convincing to get patients on board with LendingClub because they know we are being transparent about their financing options.</span></p>

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Plum Health

JULY 6, 2023

Studies conducted by the Society of Actuaries (SOA) and Milliman provide valuable insights into these new models of healthcare delivery and financing. DPC and Subscription-based Primary Care are healthcare delivery models where a provider offers unlimited specified routine healthcare services for a monthly fee.

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Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

MARCH 13, 2025

Status: It passed with bipartisan support and was referred to the Senate Finance Committee. Read a summary of HF 1005. MA Coverage of the Psychiatric Collaborative Care Model ( HF 958 ): Key Takeaway: The bill received bipartisan support during member comments. Status: It was laid over for possible inclusion in an omnibus bill.

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Noreta Family Medicine

MARCH 26, 2025

At Noreta, we provide care that considers patients’ health and finances. At Noreta Family Medicine, we believe communication should be simple and direct. All of our patients have access to a secure text-messaging app to quickly reach out with any questions or concerns. You know DPC is working when ….patients You know DPC is working when ….patients

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Permanente Medicine

APRIL 16, 2025

Most transactions are largely focused on size, scale, and finance. “Consolidation of hospitals, medical groups, and health plans are occurring throughout the United States,” said Dr. Koh. What is different and exciting about our affiliation is our shared belief in value-based care. Kaiser Permanente in Northern California received 4.5

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The Motivated MD

OCTOBER 3, 2024

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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The Motivated MD

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

This marks the 10th chapter of our Doctor Money finance series, which I hope to complete and formally turn into a publishable book or e-book in the not-too-distant future. I found this to be true in my life, and I think that for those in healthcare professions with prolonged training, it can be even more difficult. Stay tuned!

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Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

MARCH 27, 2025

HOUSE COMMERCE FINANCE AND POLICY COMMITTEE H.F. 2403 ( Representative O’Driscoll ): On Wednesday, March 19, 2025, the House Commerce Finance and Policy Committee heard H.F. The Minnesota Hospital Association, as well as some individual hospitals, testified in support of the bill. Read a summary of S.F. SENATE COMMERCE COMMITTEE S.F.

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CDOCS

MARCH 15, 2021

png]</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:ubuntu">The most successful practices have systems in place that include training in and around patient financing strategies. &ldquo;Presenting Patients are looking for budget-friendly monthly payment options.

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Plum Health

MAY 22, 2023

Plum Health can help you establish a customized DPC solution, track its impact on employee health and company finances, monitor metrics such as claim reductions, enhanced employee engagement, and improved chronic disease prevention and management. If you have a great relationship with your PCP, keep it! Sadly, up to 80% do not.

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PEMBlog

JUNE 7, 2023

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of an award (U07MC37471) totaling $3M with 0 percent financed with nongovernmental sources. It is also episode 4 in a 5 episode series focused on agitation in children and adolescents.

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CDOCS

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

LendingClub Patient Solutions is one of the most trusted names in dental financing. In my 15 years of being a consultant in the patient financing industry, the number 1 mistake that I see practices make is relying on no-interest or &ldquo;interest-free&rdquo; plans too often. Our big differentiator is our installment loans.

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Physician's Practice

JUNE 23, 2025

Practices that signed iron-clad contracts on the strength of a catered demo later discovered “buyer’s remorse” offers no refund; walking away often means paying twice; once for the failed system and again for its replacement. In short, buying technology is no longer a line item, it’s a strategic risk. Singer, M.D.,

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The Motivated MD

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

This week we published the latest chapter in our content series titled Doctor Money: A Personal Finance Guide for Physicians. Take the human element out of your finances to accelerate your journey towards financial independence. This week we published chapter 8 which looks at how to automate your savings.

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The Motivated MD

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

For anyone gravitating towards personal finance and physician finance content, discussions around intelligent investing in stocks and bonds are relatively commonplace. With the newly found freedom of my discretionary income, I have spent more time thinking about how to better invest. Lastly, it simply requires less time.

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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. It is also the final episode in a 5 episode series focused on agitation in children and adolescents.

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PEMBlog

MAY 31, 2023

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of an award (U07MC37471) totaling $3M with 0 percent financed with nongovernmental sources. This podcast episode hosted by Brad Sobolewski ( @PEMTweets ) and co-authored by Dennis Ren ( @DennisRenMD ) is all about age-appropriate pharmacologic management strategies for agitated children.

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CDOCS

JULY 22, 2019

& Consent forms are signed, finances secured, and the patient is ready to have an OptiSleep oral appliance fabricated.</p> I selected a spot on the hard palate and double-click to begin the segmentation and then drag my cursor to the bottom left, somewhere on the patient&amp;rsquo;s spine.

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PEMBlog

MAY 17, 2023

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of an award (U07MC37471) totaling $3M with 0 percent financed with nongovernmental sources. Why then do we persist with the “is it medical/organic or psych” question? It is also episode 1 in a 5 episode series focused on agitation in children and adolescents.

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Physician's Practice

JUNE 6, 2025

Reynolds June 3rd 2025 Article Look out for these five critical signs indicating it's time to part ways with underperforming employees, safeguarding your practice's reputation and finances. 5 signs it’s time to fire a practice employee Keith A. 5 signs it’s time to fire a practice employee Keith A.

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