The Health Policy Exchange

JUNE 24, 2013

Currently, the collective impacts of the individual and employer mandates and guaranteed insurance issue provisions of the Affordable Care Act on underserved communities remain uncertain.

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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 19, 2025

Determining patients’ prognosis Due to individual variations in genetics and lifestyle choices, each person ages at a different rate. However, this visual assessment can be impaired by individual biases, thereby impacting objective care decisions. It can discern subtle signs and patterns of ageing from facial cues.

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Plum Health

AUGUST 30, 2024

Read on to see how you can navigate insurance or skip the headache entirely by joining with a Direct Primary Care membership to Plum Health. Depending on your insurance plan, you might run into issues like formulary exclusions (where your plan doesn't cover Ozempic at all) or high copayments that make it difficult to afford.

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Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 13, 2025

Preventive Services Covered by Health Insurance The Affordable Care Act requires most health insurance plans to cover preventive services without charging copayments or coinsurance. Our board-certified physicians and nurse practitioners develop individualized prevention plans that address your specific health needs and concerns.

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Integrated Care News by CFHA

MAY 8, 2025

WHO grouped these determinants into contextual, individual, and group influences and vaccine/vaccination-specific issues. Providing incentives such as tying vaccination to insurance-related or public benefits or offering small monetary or non-monetary incentives can also improve vaccine uptake.

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Plum Health

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Understanding Traditional Primary Care Costs Understanding Traditional Primary Care Cos Traditional primary care operates within the insurance-based, fee-for-service model. Typical Costs in Traditional Primary Care Co-Pays and Deductibles : Each visit has a co-pay, and costs can vary widely depending on your insurance plan.

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Concierge Choice Physicians

MARCH 24, 2025

Many seemed to blame physicians as much as insurers and the government for everything they experience as wrong in healthcare, from long waits to Covid-19. Time constraints and pressure on physicians, leading to a decay in the doctor-patient relationship, have eroded trust. The comments from readers were even more bleak.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 10, 2025

Compared to those with private dental insurance, increased tooth decay would disproportionately affect publicly insured and uninsured children. For a 10-year horizon, estimates increased compared to a five-year horizon.

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Dr. Zaar

MAY 20, 2025

People with type 1 or type 2 diabetes Those with gestational diabetes Individuals at risk of diabetic complications How to Set Up Remote Monitoring Choose a device compatible with your care provider Sync with mobile health apps or platforms Share results securely with your endocrinologist or diabetes care team Insurance & Accessibility in the USA (..)

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

Since she was still working, she thought her employer health insurance plan would cover her. This time, though, the insurance coverage wasn’t routine. Diamond contacted several people at UnitedHealthcare before she found out why the insurer refused to pay her claims. The bills totaled more than $100,000.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 18, 2025

Cost-Sharing Program Benefits Patient Rashida Khan, PhD , and colleagues presented a case in which a 56-year-old African American woman with a BMI of 40 kg/m 2 was denied insurance coverage for GLP-1 receptor agonist therapy.

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Plum Health

JUNE 9, 2025

He believes in delivering individualized, patient-focused care by taking the time to learn each person’s unique story, lifestyle, and health goals. No copays, no deductibles, no insurance —just great care when you need it. You get personal, high-touch care without the hassle of traditional insurance. Learn more about DPC

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

ITS model- proportion of individuals who screened positive for at least one HRSN, aggregated by week. Independent variables for logistic regression model- age, gender, race, ethnicity, rurality, and insurance type. Both before and after the onset of the pandemic, American Indian or Alaska Native and Black individuals (OR: 2.26

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

Lifetime Income Annuities: “Longevity Insurance” Nuss singles out income annuities—especially lifetime annuities —as a compelling choice. Lifetime annuities pool longevity risk, offering what Nuss calls “longevity insurance.” Investors can add a spouse to the plan, ensuring stable income for two lifetimes.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

MARCH 15, 2025

Paperwork required to sign up for health insurance and to establish care with a practice. A 2022 article in the Harvard Business Review introduced the term sludge to describe “these types of situations in which the design of a specific process consistently impedes individuals from completing their intended action.” Wait times.

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Plum Health

MAY 19, 2023

Raquel Orlich treats a Plum Health member Are you a self-employed individual, uninsured, underinsured, or enrolled in a high deductible catastrophic health plan in the Detroit or Royal Oak area? Transparent Pricing: With DPC, you know exactly what you're paying for - no hidden costs, no complicated insurance bills.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Increasingly, health insurers, private hospitals, and even nonprofits are behaving as though they aim first to extract revenue, and only second to care for people. We should no longer be debating whether or not having health care insurance is better than not having it. Nevertheless, the U.S.

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Medical Xpress

MARCH 18, 2023

In early March, Eli Lilly made headlines after announcing a new $35 price cap on insulin for individuals with private insurance. Novo Nordisk and Sanofi made their own price reduction announcements shortly after Eli Lilly's move.

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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. The Minnesota Hospital Association, as well as some individual hospitals, testified in support of the bill. Read a summary of S.F. HOUSE COMMERCE FINANCE AND POLICY COMMITTEE H.F.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

A small-scale, peer navigation focused micro-elimination project was launched to facilitate treatment engagement and re-testing for individuals experiencing elevated risk of HCV re-infection. were on Medicaid insurance when diagnosed. Univariate statistics and multivariate regression statistics were calculated. Among new patients, 58.9%

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Access to healthcare or primary care has been associated with reduced SI in cisgender individuals (CI), however, it is not clear if access to health care is associated with lower levels of SI for transgender people (TG). Objective: This study examines exploratory models to assess whether access to health care reduces SI in TG and CI.

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New South Family Medicine and MedSpa

JULY 21, 2020

We believe in individual physician autonomy. 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. So how do we create equal access? How can direct primary care be a part of that change?

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Plum Health

JULY 6, 2023

These models simplify the healthcare business by removing insurance companies from basic primary care. Furthermore, the study provides a snapshot of the sources of health insurance coverage in the United States. of the population was covered by employer-sponsored group insurance, 19.8% individual), and 1.4% by military.

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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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Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MAY 15, 2025

For some, that involves providing high-quality care to individual patients. 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.

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Medical Xpress

MARCH 16, 2023

While research has long established disparities in health outcomes among individuals living with sickle cell disease (SCD), few studies have quantified these gaps. A new study published in Blood Advances finds that the average life expectancy of publicly insured patients living with SCD is roughly 52.6 years for men and 79.3

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Administrative activities, including work related to caring for individual patients and clinic administration, may play a substantial role in understanding changes to primary care workload.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting & Population: All clinicians in Family Medicine, Pediatrics, and Internal Medicine caring for individuals aged 22 years and younger in the Virginia All Payers Claims Database (APCD). vs. 29.5%, p<0.0001), and have lower proportions of people insured with Medicaid (44.9% vs. 47.4%, p<0.0001).

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Intervention/Instrument: Individual semi-structured interviews of all practice staff exploring domains of CRC screening: identification of eligible patients, screening recommendation messaging, clinical conversation, test ordering, and test results follow-up. Setting or Dataset: Eight US primary care practices.

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Plum Health

OCTOBER 6, 2024

In a traditional healthcare setup, doctors are often overwhelmed with large patient rosters, leaving them with limited time for each individual. This relationship allows me to provide truly individualized care and helps my patients feel more comfortable discussing their concerns. Who Can Benefit from Concierge Medicine? "A

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Results: The cohort consisted of 264 individuals with cancer of various stages. The mean age was 55 years and 72% had commercial insurance. Outcomes were assessed at index visit, 2, 4, 6, and 12 months. Most were white (89%), female (84%), with a college or graduate/professional degree (83%).

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Individual items within the scaled score were also examined. Our findings suggest the need for policymakers and insurers to facilitate mechanisms to support broad SOP to meet patient needs. Three years post-graduation, FPs completed the National Graduate Survey that assessed SOP and practice organization characteristics.

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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

Finally, the arrival of interoperability can connect and harmonise various hospital systems An M-LLM could serve as a central hub that facilitates access to various unimodal AIs used in the hospital, such as radiology software, insurance handling software, Electronic Medical Records (EMR), etc.

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The Motivated MD

OCTOBER 3, 2024

So, I started listening to podcasts and videos about filing flood insurance and homeowners insurance claims. Unfortunately, this led me down a path of unpaid claims, hurricane horror stories, and insurance company fraud. I would then subsequently file a claim with my homeowners and flood insurance.

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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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Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MARCH 5, 2025

Contact your insurance company: If you have health insurance, ask your insurance company for a list of endocrinologists in your city or county that accept your coverage. Health insurance coverage: Health insurance is another practical consideration when choosing an endocrinologist in Connecticut.

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Vida Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

Unfortunately, there is also a history of paternalism and abuse in medicine, especially of individuals of color or from disadvantaged backgrounds, and this has created a lot of mistrust of medical professionals. Asking about the cash price if you don't use insurance can be helpful so that you can compare the two options.

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