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. Kennedy Jr.,
NPR Health
MAY 29, 2025
announced new COVID recommendations this week, it raised questions among clinicians and patients: Will those shots still be available to people who want them and will insurance cover it? Kennedy Jr.
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Physician's Weekly
JUNE 10, 2025
vaccine recommendations. He said the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, or ACIP, has been “plagued with persistent conflicts of interest” and called it a “rubber stamp” for new vaccines. Cassidy, who is a physician and leads the Senate health committee, had expressed concerns about Kennedy’s views on vaccines.
Alabama Academy of Family Physicians
FEBRUARY 19, 2025
Running from February 4 to May 15, this session promises to bring substantial changes to medical consent laws, Medicaid coverage, rural hospital funding, taxation on essential goods, and the transparency of healthcare costs. HB 2 – Vaccine Consent What’s in the Bill: Sponsored by Rep.
New South Family Medicine and MedSpa
NOVEMBER 24, 2022
The practice doesn't depend on the insurance company to say whether they will pay for a certain procedure or a particular test, and how much. With the direct primary care model, your insurance is used for what it is intended to cover: catastrophic health events, hospitalizations, specialist care, imaging, and surgery.
Mere Mortal MD
MARCH 22, 2025
Because it took so long for my husband to get several opinions from three different surgeons, to complete a round of physical therapy, and then to get insurance improval, his back had time to heal. You’re not going to work in a hospital.” We are so grateful he was able to avoid surgery. Thanks for reading Mere Mortal MD!
Physician's Weekly
JULY 1, 2025
His 4-year-old son was at risk because he had received only the first of the vaccine’s two doses. His twin daughters, who had already had their measles vaccinations, got other immunizations. Today the vaccine against chickenpox, or varicella, is sometimes combined into what is known as the MMRV vaccine. Kennedy Jr.
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