Alabama Academy of Family Physicians
MAY 15, 2025
Ed Oliver, HB 45 would require the Alabama Medicaid Agency to cover any noninvasive colorectal cancer screening test assigned a grade A or B under the recommendations of the United States Preventive Services Task Force. HB 86 – Rural Hospital Investment Fund Bill What’s in the Bill: Sponsored by Rep.
Annals of Family Medicine
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
Context: Primary care physicians and practice teams face well-documented challenges increasing colorectal cancer (CRC) screening rates among their patients. Multi-level interventions that address patients, clinicians, clinical care environments and larger systems (hospitals, networks, etc.) are needed to reach US CRC screening goals.
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The Health Policy Exchange
SEPTEMBER 2, 2020
Our residency, formerly a collaboration with Providence Hospital, is now known as the Medstar Health/Georgetown-Washington Hospital Center Family Medicine Residency Program. Also, patients may not have a choice of specialists, depending on the insurer's network. I stepped down as director of the Robert L. Phillips, Jr.
A Country Doctor Writes
JUNE 21, 2025
We are being crushed by mandated screenings for everything from obesity to domestic abuse ( see my post “ Brief is Good ”). The drugs are better, but the way patients engage with doctors during office visits and hospital stays is unchanged. The whole notion of Quality is arbitrary and paternalistic.
Physician's Weekly
JUNE 16, 2025
“In addition, despite practice guidelines recommending post-anthracycline echocardiograms in adults receiving more than 250 mg/m2 of doxorubicin, only a minority of providers report obtaining routine screening echocardiograms after completion of anthracycline-based chemotherapy regimen with a cumulative dose of 300 mg/m2,” they added.
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%
Reflections of a Grady Doctor
JULY 30, 2019
A man in a hospital gown shuffled past us, IV tubes dangling from his wrist and forearms. Hey--did you check a urine drug screen?" He denied any drug use and, on top of that, had prior screens that all were negative. Please cancel the urine drug screen if it hasn't been collected yet." Chest pain?" My intern paused. "I
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