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Understanding the Relationship Between Social Needs and Cervical Cancer Screening [Screening, prevention, and health promotion]

Annals of Family Medicine

Objective To understand how patient-reported social needs are associated with cervical cancer screening in a fully insured population. Screening rate also varied by insurance type. Conclusion In an insured population, social needs were not associated with screening in patients 30+ years. in screened vs. 1.15

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The Massachusetts Avenue of health reform

The Health Policy Exchange

In contrast to the personality-driven path that Lyndon Johnson took to navigate legislative obstacles to Medicare and Medicaid, former management consultant Mitt Romney charted a decidedly different course to expanding health insurance when he became governor of Massachusetts in 2003. It was one thing to ask drivers to buy car insurance.

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AAFP Represents Members During 2025 Legislative Session

Alabama Academy of Family Physicians

To incentivize donations to these hospitals, the bill suggests creating a tax credit for individuals and entities to offset their state income tax liability. This bill would provide a civil action for pharmacists, pharmacies, and insurance beneficiaries for injuries due to violations by a pharmacy benefits manager.

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3 Ways AI Can Detect Vital Signs From Your Face

The Medical Futurist

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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Caring for the underserved: The National Health Service Corps

The Health Policy Exchange

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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Vaccine Uptake Strategies & Ethical Considerations- Part II

Integrated Care News by CFHA

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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From Numbers to Names: How Concierge Care is Redefining the Doctor-Patient Experience

Concierge Choice Physicians

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. The comments from readers were even more bleak. With a growing aging population and a physician shortage, it’s certainly a challenging time in medicine.

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