Family Physicians of St. Joseph

MARCH 14, 2018

From the Detroit News If there’s any more argument to be made about getting third-party insurers — whether government or private insurance — out of most routine health care, here’s one. But thank goodness my son has insurance — and will be on a parent’s insurance until he’s 26 years old, god willing.

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New South Family Medicine and MedSpa

JULY 21, 2020

We want less insurance demands, less government demands, and less pharma demands on how we practice medicine, so that we can focus on PATIENT CARE and transparency. How can direct primary care be a part of that change? DPC physicians by nature believe in a free market. We believe in individual physician autonomy.

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The Physicians Foundation

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Scorecard with National and State Level Data Reveals Workforce Shortages, Low Primary Care Reimbursement, and Reduced Patient Access to Vital Services February 18, 2025 – As the nation faces a widespread surge in chronic diseases, the third Primary Care Scorecard highlights how systemic disinvestment in U.S. Key findings include: 1.

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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. This bill received bipartisan support and was passed to the Senate State and Local Government Committee.

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FDA Law Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The government asserted additional allegations that are outside our scope. Prescribing Red Flags The government alleged that from at least 2017 to April 2021 Defendants knowingly filled controlled substance prescriptions “that raised obvious ’red flags’ of potential abuse or diversion.” Zarzamora Press Release. Complaint ¶ 55.

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Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

MARCH 13, 2025

Last week, the Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians (MAFP) was actively engaged in multiple discussions on health care policy, including Medical Assistance rate reimbursement, coverage for the Psychiatric Collaborative Care Model and broader reforms to patient-centered care. Read a summary of HF 958.

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ABIM

APRIL 24, 2025

Expanding ABIM’s engagement with stakeholder communities such as early career physicians, specialty societies and patient-focused organizations. Dave noted the Diplomate Professional Profile’s potential outside of Specialty Board discussions with data that could be valuable to patients with specific needs and conditions.

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ABIM

MAY 18, 2025

As a Latina IBD patient, I’ve come to understand that my experience has been shaped not only by the disease itself, but through the lens of culture, identity and the disparities that influence how patients, like myself, are seen, treated and supported. This burden of the disease is being felt by patients and healthcare providers.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 24, 2025

Kim Beckham, an insurance agent in Victoria, Texas, had seen friends suffer so badly from shingles that she wanted to receive the first approved shingles vaccine as soon as it became available, even if she had to pay for it out-of-pocket. The new studies are coming at a fraught political moment. The nation’s health secretary, Robert F.

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NPR Health - Shots

MARCH 2, 2023

Moderna said people without insurance will be able to get its COVID vaccine at no cost after the U.S. government bows out. But patients will have to use the company's cumbersome assistance program.

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Permanente Medicine

MAY 20, 2025

Khang Nguyen, MD, chief transformation officer of the Southern California Permanente Medical Group, discusses how AI can increase clinicians’ joy in medicine and improve patient outcomes with Chris Grant, chief operating offer and executive vice president of Kaiser Permanente, The Permanente Federation, and host of the Permanente Medicine Podcast.

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FDA Law Blog

MAY 19, 2025

86, 72703 (December 22, 2021), DEA emphasized in the Gulf Med decision that prescribing [r]ed flags are circumstances surrounding a prescription that cause a pharmacist to take pause, including signs of diversion or the potential for patient harm. Patients filling prescriptions at the same time at multiple pharmacies. 81, 86, 251.

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FDA Law Blog

JUNE 27, 2024

Prescribing Red Flags In the Gulf Med decision, DEA emphasized that “[r]ed flags are circumstances surrounding a prescription that cause a pharmacist to take pause, including signs of diversion or the potential for patient harm.” The expert specifically found that: Patient A.R. The expert specifically found that: Patient A.R.

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FDA Law Blog

JANUARY 6, 2022

Wasserstein — “EKRA” refers to the Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act, which was part of the Substance Use – Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment for Patients and Communities Act of 2018. His job was governed by an employment contract that contained both salary provisions and restrictive covenants.

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FDA Law Blog

JANUARY 6, 2022

Wasserstein — “EKRA” refers to the Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act, which was part of the Substance Use – Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment for Patients and Communities Act of 2018. His job was governed by an employment contract that contained both salary provisions and restrictive covenants.

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The Health Policy Exchange

OCTOBER 21, 2020

President in November support a "Medicare for All" style single-payer health insurance program, this issue emerged during the Democratic primary debates as one option for extending coverage to the uninsured and reducing health care administrative costs. Although neither of the major party nominees for U.S. He pointed out that 93% of U.S.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 16, 2025

MONDAY, June 16, 2025 (HealthDay News) — In a policy statement issued by the American Academy of Pediatrics and published online June 16 in Pediatrics , updated recommendations are presented for providing adolescent patients with contraceptive counseling and methods. ” Abstract/Full Text Copyright © 2025 HealthDay.

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ABIM

JUNE 4, 2025

Expanding ABIM’s engagement with stakeholder communities such as early career physicians, specialty societies and patient-focused organizations. Community Practice in ABIM Governance* Erica N. Upgrades to the ABIM website and Physician Portal for 2025 designed to make it easier for both physicians and the public to find information.

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ABIM

JUNE 24, 2025

Expanding ABIM’s engagement with stakeholder communities such as early career physicians, specialty societies and patient-focused organizations. Community Practice in ABIM Governance* Erica N. Upgrades to the ABIM website and Physician Portal for 2025, designed to make it easier for both physicians and the public to find information.

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FDA Law Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

In Gulf Med , DEA emphasized that “[r]ed flags are circumstances surrounding a prescription that cause a pharmacist to take pause, including signs of diversion or the potential for patient harm.” Cash payment for controlled prescriptions rather than payment by insurance (or worker’s compensation) is another red flag. at 72,730.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Janet Abrahm is one of the world’s experts in pain and symptom management for patients with cancer joins us to talk about (among other things): Ketamine for hyperalgesia and allodynia, how to treat dissociative side effects. Taught me everything I know about symptom management for patients with cancer. Lidocaine: worth the hype?

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GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

I know you’ve been a strong advocate for nursing home patients particularly in California. There have been multiple subsequent government reports on nursing home care, most recently was about eight, nine years ago from the OIG. Mike: Electronic record keeping, Eric, is the government’s gift to defense attorneys.

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FDA Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Typically, generic sponsors carve out a patent-protected indication or patient population, but technically, any method of use can be carved out as long as FDA determines that the product can still be used safely and effectively without the patent-protected information. The catch is, as we have learned from the GSK v.

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GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

We discuss, among other things: Findings that in several studies AI was rated by patients as more empathetic than human clinicians (not less, that isn’t a typo). The experience of both patients and clinicians isn’t very good. Bob recently wrote an essay in JAMA on AI and delivered a UCSF Grand Round s on the same topic.

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Doctors for America

MAY 30, 2025

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Doctors for America PO Box: 21161 2300 18th St NW Lbby Washington, DC 20009-9996 May 30, 2025 Coalition Acts to Protect Pregnant Patients’ Federal Right to Emergency Care, Including Abortion By Intervening in a Federal Challenge to EMTALA, Doctors for America Seeks to Protect Health and Lifesaving Care WASHINGTON, D.C.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

It was designed to really balance what Medicaid at the time was to provide nursing homes and Medicare is obviously health insurance. And just going back to that patient, I’ll tell you, before I started this role, I would have probably looked at the handout box in our clinic and been like, oh, okay. You go back home.

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Medical Xpress

JUNE 7, 2025

Many people still face stigma or lack insurance coverage, which can limit access. Most current PrEP users have commercial insurance, but Medicaid will be key for expanding access to lower-income communities. The company is working with governments and health groups in the U.K. and abroad. © 2025 HealthDay.

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Maine Academy of Family Physicians

JUNE 21, 2024

This bill proposes to improve the healthcare decision-making and treatment process for prescriptions and testing by reducing the pre-approval (prior authorization) burdens placed on healthcare providers by health insurance carriers. Many patients cannot afford the upfront costs of these shots, and compliance with much needed care suffers.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 22, 2024

Patients families want to know whether their loved one has died. Doctors want to know whether the patient has died. And one of the principal driving factors behind doctors wanting to know whether the patient has died, I think we need to acknowledge, is harvesting organs for transplant. Insurance companies. Icus for beds.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” Care Ecosystem.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 25, 2025

Nearly seven months after the fatal shooting of an insurance CEO in New York drew widespread attention to health insurers’ practice of denying or delaying doctor-ordered care, the largest U.S. insurers agreed Monday to streamline their often cumbersome preapproval system.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 24, 2025

The move could shrink access to health care for some of the nation’s poorest and most vulnerable people, warn analysts, patient advocates, and Democratic political leaders. And the Republicans who run the federal government are looking to spend far fewer of those dollars.

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FDA Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

This bill, which addresses numerous areas of the economy, public health, and government regulation, includes Subtitle E, Drug Pricing. PART 1: MAXIMUM FAIR PRICE PAYMENT LIMITATION UNDER MEDICARE PARTS B AND D AND THE COMMERCIAL INSURANCE MARKET. Subtitle E is a slightly modified version of H.R. 3, the Elijah E. 8126 with a lower MFP.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

Diminished reimbursements from the state-federal health insurance program for those with low incomes or disabilities would further erode hospitals’ ability to stay open and maintain services for their communities — populations with more severe health needs than their urban counterparts.

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FDA Law Blog

MAY 19, 2022

The final rule, which was set to go into effect on January 1, 2023, would have significantly narrowed the exclusions from best price for patient savings programs such as co-pay coupons, vouchers, consumer rebates, and free drug programs, which would, in turn, have discouraged manufacturers from offering such programs.

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Physicians News Digest

APRIL 2, 2025

By Julie Appleby Tim Winard knew he needed to buy health insurance when he left his management job in manufacturing to launch his own business. After speaking with an insurance agent, he decided against enrolling in an Affordable Care Act plan because he was concerned about the potential cost. Then the bill came.

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Physicians News Digest

APRIL 3, 2025

The episodes turned both women into advocates for patients and spurred research that made American health care safer. Haskell, of Columbia, South Carolina, has done research and helped write AHRQ-published surveys and guidebooks on patient engagement for hospitals. It also has published tools and guidelines to enhance patient safety.

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