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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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Researchers Propose Solutions to Improve GLP-1 RA Access

Physician's Weekly

Cost-sharing interventions and patient education can help improve access to GLP-1 receptor agonists for patients with obesity, according to an abstract presented at the AACE Annual Meeting 2025. Other Persistent Barriers & Potential Solutions In another article not presented at the meeting, Stephanie W.

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Risking It All For a New Business Model at Family Physicians of St. Joe

Family Physicians of St. Joseph

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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Prescribing Red Flags and Suspicious Controlled Substance Orders: Current Cautionary Tales

FDA Law Blog

Pharmacists’ Corresponding Responsibility A controlled substance prescription, to be valid, must be issued for “a legitimate medical purpose by an individual practitioner acting in the usual course of [their] professional practice.” The government asserted additional allegations that are outside our scope. Holiday CVS, L.L.C. Complaint ¶ 58.

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Episode 282: Anti-Racism in Medicine Series – Episode 20 – Medical Racism and Indigenous Peoples

The Clinical Problem Solvers

The dehumanization of individuals of color at the margins of society by the healthcare system is not simply a thing of the past, and is certainly a persistent phenomenon. Cindy Gladue, Brian Sinclair, and Joyce Echaquan are three Indigenous individuals who suffered immense harm at the hands of the healthcare system.

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What Pharma Executives Secretly Think About the Future (But Won’t Admit Publicly)

The Medical Futurist

Progress in this field promises to reorient care around individual patients’ needs by treating patients as equal-level partners. The technology could even tailer medication doses to individual patients; but only one company, FabRx , has been spearheading this field.

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Pharmacists in Florida (and Elsewhere): Waive Prescribing Red Flags at Your Peril

FDA Law Blog

Coconut Grove had noted “verified” on the prescriptions which DEA found “is not sufficient to identify and resolve any red flags that may be present.” Alternating Between Cash and Insurance According to the government’s expert, patients paying for prescriptions with insurance and for others with cash is a red flag for those paid with cash.