A Country Doctor Writes

JUNE 21, 2025

Most medical practices are still stuck doing piecework. Even the required operational framework for Patient Centered Medical Home recognition is completely top-down. The drugs are better, but the way patients engage with doctors during office visits and hospital stays is unchanged. 1) Healthcare is not at all customer centered.

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Concierge Choice Physicians

MAY 13, 2025

Our programs are compatible with insurance and Medicare. Click here to read an article recently published on Becker’s Hospital Review for additional insight, or contact us at 877.888.5590 or answers@ccpmd.com. CCP clients are finding that our programs go far beyond increasing revenue.

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Concierge Choice Physicians

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Leading not-for-profit healthcare organization in greater Los Angeles allows patients to choose a closer doctor-patient relationship ​ROCKVILLE CENTRE, NY – February 4, 2025 – Concierge Choice Physicians (CCP), the nation’s leading full-service concierge medical service provider, announces today that David M.

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Concierge Choice Physicians

MARCH 24, 2025

Wayne Lipton, CCP Managing Partner ​America’s trust in medical professionals is dwindling, according to Gallup’s annual professions rating , dropping from a high of 67% in 2021 to just 53% in 2024. For medical professionals and those working in healthcare, the article was grim. But what can be done? How do we know?

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The Health Policy Exchange

JUNE 24, 2013

In this month's Georgetown University Health Policy Seminar, we critically evaluated the accomplishments and limitations of the NHSC in improving access to care for the medically underserved.

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Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MAY 20, 2025

Exploring a Medical Office Assistant Career Are you looking for a stable, rewarding career in the healthcare field that doesn’t require a degree? Becoming a medical office assistant might be the perfect choice for you. What Does a Medical Office Assistant Do? What Does a Medical Office Assistant Do?

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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

Large language models will soon find their way in to everyday clinical settings , simply because the global shortage of healthcare personnel is becoming dire and AI will lend a hand with tasks that do not require skilled medical professionals. Current medical AIs only process one type of data, for example, text or X-ray images.

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LeverageRx

JANUARY 2, 2025

MAG Mutual Insurance Company (MagMutual for short) provides medical professional liability insurance to physicians and hospitals.

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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. 6, 2017, from a lab affiliated with Covenant HealthCare hospital system of Saginaw. under the insurance-free system. more, or a 947.54

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NPR Health - Shots

JANUARY 9, 2023

Instead of health insurance, the Rev. That meant lower premiums, but a huge hospital bill. Jeff King had signed up for an alternative that left members of the plan to share the costs of health care. Image credit: Bram Sable-Smith/KHN)

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Noreta Family Medicine

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

As a family doctor who has worked for a large hospital system in the past, I fully agree with this contention. A light bulb went on for me as I had the exact same thought about 6 years ago when I began to think about leaving my job in an office owned by a hospital system. Martin says “There has to be a different way of doing things.”

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Common Sense Family Doctor

DECEMBER 27, 2024

" The Gilded Age of Medicine is Here ," announced the title of a recent New Yorker article about the tactics of private equity firms that provide infusions of cash to struggling hospitals in order to extract hundreds of millions of dollars in profits by slashing costs to the bone and endangering the health of patients. Nevertheless, the U.S.

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Altitude Family & Internal Medicine

APRIL 30, 2025

Altitude Family & Internal Medicine (303) 730-2167 Independent Doctors, Better Care: What the Big Systems Dont Want You to Know In todays healthcare system, patients often find themselves navigating a maze of corporate-owned practicesincluding hospital systems, insurance-affiliated clinics, and private equity-backed offices.

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Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MAY 27, 2025

Opportunities for healthcare admin assistants across Connecticut are growing, from clinics and hospitals to private practices like the Physicians Alliance of Connecticut. Healthcare administrative assistants manage crucial administrative tasks in medical offices. What Does a Healthcare Administrative Assistant Do?

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Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

MARCH 27, 2025

Committees reviewed a range of legislation, including efforts to address workforce shortages, expand insurance coverage and improve school health services. Key proposals included increasing hospital Medicaid reimbursement rates , preventing mid-year changes to prescription drug formularies and establishing a School Health Advisory Committee.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 3, 2023

[link] CPSolvers: Anti-Racism in Medicine Series Episode 20 – Medical Racism and Indigenous Peoples Show Notes by Sudarshan (“Sud”) Krishnamurthy April 4, 2023 Summary: This episode highlights the checkered past of medicine and the advancements in the field that have occurred at the expense of the humanity of Indigenous peoples.

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Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MAY 15, 2025

When you join the PACT team, you’ll receive a variety of competitive benefits to promote good health: Medical care benefits: Health insurance helps you pay for the care you need, from doctor visits to hospital stays. Life insurance: Life insurance offers a lump sum payment to a person of your choice if you pass away.

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Medical Xpress

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

lack dental insurance, and in 2018, nearly half of older adults received no dental care. Half of all older adults in the U.S.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Multi-level interventions that address patients, clinicians, clinical care environments and larger systems (hospitals, networks, etc.) Population Studied: Twenty-seven staff, including physicians, nurses, office managers, medical assistants, receptionists, and others. are needed to reach US CRC screening goals.

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Family Physicians of St. Joseph

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Joseph, the family medicine practice is committed to providing exceptional, affordable, patient-centered primary care in SW Michigan without reliance on insurance companies for payment of services. Joseph followed a traditional fee-for-service model, billing insurance companies for patient care. Anchored at 147 Peace Boulevard in St.

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The Physicians Foundation

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

adults lacked a usual source of care in 2022—marking the highest level in a decade, despite historically high rates of insurance coverage during this period. when excluding those practicing in hospitals—marking the lowest rate in a decade. The percentage of NPs and PAs in primary care dipped to new lows of 30% and 24.3% As the U.S.

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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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The Direct Doctors Difference

AUGUST 18, 2021

. ​ ​The strength of the movement comes from a grassroots force of physicians who are unhappy with the care they can provide in the traditional fee-for-service model of medicine which depends on the patient coming in for a visit and being billed through insurance for each encounter.

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Physician's Weekly

JULY 1, 2025

TUESDAY, July 1, 2025 (HealthDay News) — The Trump administration may cut off federal funding to hospitals that provide gender-related treatments to children and teens. CMS has warned hospitals and state Medicaid programs about these dangers — and is taking regulatory enforcement actions,” Oz said. In April, U.S.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Family physician (FP) scope of practice (SOP) has declined, with fewer physicians providing basic primary care services and fewer bridging the clinic-hospital divide. Understanding the evolution of physician's practice patterns across a career-span is crucial for workforce projections, policy planning, and shaping medical education.

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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. Some older people are really eager to be vaccinated.

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Aspiring Minority Doctor

APRIL 18, 2021

Every year, thousands of medical school graduates go unmatched. If you’re a 4th year medical student who is unmatched at this point, my advice is the following: Focus on securing a one year preliminary or transitional year position! What if I fail to match into any position? Urgent care work definitely isn’t for everyone though.

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My Green Doctor

JULY 2, 2025

in the need for healthcare—translating into over 500 million extra days of inpatient hospital care and more than 100 million emergency department visits across Europe by 2050. Link NRDC/Medical Society Consortium. million physicians are represented through the World Medical Association, a participating organization.

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Plum Health

OCTOBER 6, 2024

They're also called direct primary care (DPC) or personalized medical service providers. Improved Access to Medical Care One of the most frequent complaints I hear from patients in traditional practices is that they have to wait days, sometimes even weeks, to see their doctor. Let’s break down some of the key benefits.

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The Motivated MD

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Wiped-out grocery stores, medications unfilled, spoiled food, hours-long lines for gasoline, and impatient citizens pulling firearms on each other, escalating tensions in an already tumultuous time. So, I started listening to podcasts and videos about filing flood insurance and homeowners insurance claims.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 16, 2025

Upshaw, MD , and colleagues developed an anonymous electronic survey they emailed to 12 academic medical systems, three US lymphoma cooperative groups, and two community hospitals, and distributed at one international lymphoma meeting. Clinicians were asked how they would treat this patient. 2% opted for R-CHOP with dexrazoxane.

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Physician's Weekly

JULY 2, 2025

An immigrant without legal status, Maria doesn’t have health or dental insurance. “It’s so expensive,” said Maria, who often works 12-hour days lifting clients in and out of bed and helping them with hygiene, medication management, and housework. When her teeth start to throb, she swallows pain pills.

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The Physicians Foundation

AUGUST 15, 2024

Founder and CEO of Cherry Hill Free Clinic (CHFC), Chief Medical Officer at Camden Coalition and Medical Director for Community Health at Virtua Health, as the recipient of the Dr. Buz Cooper Award for Addressing Drivers of Health. His dedication to this cause should serve as an inspiration to the entire medical community.”

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Medical Xpress

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Researchers from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) found disparities in the completion of follow-up concussion care, particularly among pediatric patients who are publicly insured and identify as Black, suggesting barriers to care exist.

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Barton Associates

MAY 29, 2025

The United States doesn’t have enough doctors and the problem is only growing—according to the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) , the country is facing an estimated shortage of between 13,500 and 86,000 primary and specialty care physicians by 2036. When you think of healthcare, you likely think of doctors first.

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Reflections of a Grady Doctor

JULY 30, 2019

And that was a relief considering it had already been a long morning of medical mysteries. He takes his medications faithfully," my intern said. A man in a hospital gown shuffled past us, IV tubes dangling from his wrist and forearms. Hallelujah for bread and butter medical problems. On top of that, I was hungry.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 25, 2025

I’m a rheumatologist and a physician scientist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, and today we’ll be talking about giant cell arthritis as a medical emergency and what we can do about it. All of these are warning signs that visual symptom loss may be impending and thus represents a medical emergency.

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