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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. 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. Setting or Dataset: CUSOM and University Hospital.

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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. These funds could be utilized for various purposes, including direct care, operational expenses, and facility maintenance or upgrades. The 2025 Alabama Legislative Session concluded on May 14 at midnight.

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How Doctors Should Address Lifestyle Creep

The Motivated MD

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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Improving Patient Communication

CDOCS

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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Tech upgrade success: 6 rules every practice should follow

Physician's Practice

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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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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Choosing to Rent or Buy a Home in 2025

The Motivated MD

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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