Family Physicians of St. Joseph

APRIL 23, 2019

Originally from WSBT22 by Brooke O’Daniel Imagine going to a doctor’s office that doesn’t take health insurance; instead, they charge a monthly fee. They said even though they have health insurance, paying a monthly fee is actually less expensive than paying their insurance deductible. Should I go in, should I not go in?

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Concierge Choice Physicians

MAY 13, 2025

Our programs are compatible with insurance and Medicare. Make sure you are not leaving a valuable asset untapped. Our plug-and-play approach makes it simple and risk-free to launch a pilot program. You will not have to turn away patients. There is no cost. There is no need to relocate physicians or patients.

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A Country Doctor Writes

JUNE 21, 2025

Cash practices are appearing and evolving to meet patients’ needs without the mandates of Medicare and the private insurance industry, but are in essence duplicating cost and effort because of Obamacare’s insurance mandate. We meet people where they are and in many different ways. These approaches will improve with time.

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Alabama Academy of Family Physicians

MAY 15, 2025

HB 477 – ALFA Health Plan Bill What’s in the Bill: House Bill 477 would allow the Alabama Farmers Federation (ALFA) to offer health benefit plans exclusively to its members outside of state insurance regulations. The 2025 Alabama Legislative Session concluded on May 14 at midnight.

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Family Physicians of Greeley

JUNE 16, 2023

Navigating the complexities of insurance and healthcare costs can be overwhelming for patients. Understanding your insurance coverage, managing medical bills, and finding affordable healthcare options are essential for maintaining your health without breaking the bank. Persistence and clear communication can often lead to a resolution.

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A Country Doctor Writes

JUNE 9, 2025

Medicare patients on a fixed income need to use their insurance if they still want to eat and heat their homes. In my first 30 days on Substack, I published a post that got eight new subscribers and broke my record of how many views it had, 195, more than twice what my budding Substack had accomplished before.

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NPR Health - Shots

JANUARY 13, 2023

It's the last weekend for Obamacare open enrollment, and nearly 16 million Americans have signed up for a health insurance plan. Image credit: Subin Yang)

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NPR Health

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Republicans proposals to change the public health insurance program for low-income and disabled Americanscould amount to more than $2 trillion of cuts over the next decade. Image credit: Valerie Plesch/Bloomberg)

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

R) Of these, the 551 patients exposed to a CHW tended to be younger, female, insured by Medicaid, live in a higher SVI area, work full time or were unemployed, or identified as Black and/or African American or Hispanic and Latino. M) Themes from semi-structured interviews with patients.

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NPR Health - Shots

APRIL 5, 2023

Some consumers who bought health insurance plans under the Affordable Care Act have had a tough start to the year: Many say it's hard to find an in-network doctor or hospital. Image credit: Getty Images)

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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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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The pandemic did not affect disparity in rural LVOP but had an LVOP-reducing effect on low-income (M) and an LVOP-increasing effect on older adults (MA) compared to the commercially insured from 2019-2021. It is unclear how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted LVOP, particularly among vulnerable communities.

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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. Joseph has succeeded in doing just that.

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The Health Policy Exchange

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Also, patients may not have a choice of specialists, depending on the insurer's network. With 476 participating primary care practices, MDPCP provides prospective, non-visit based payments known as "care management fees" and operational support from a program management office and Care Transformation Organizations (CTO).

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NPR Health - Shots

APRIL 13, 2023

The end-of-life benefit costs billions a year. A new approach aims to eliminate waste and weed out bad actors, while making the care more inviting to those who most need it. Image credit: Westend61/Getty Images/Westend61)

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Mesa Family Physician

JUNE 16, 2025

What to Expect During a Primary Care Visit Visiting a primary care provider for the first time can bring up many questions. What does the doctor do first? How long will it take? What information should you bring? Many patients ask: What happens at a new patient appointment in primary care? What Happens at Your First Visit? Absolutely.

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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. 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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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. At Mesa Family Physicians, we believe that preventing illness is always better than treating it.

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Center for Family Medicine (CFM)

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

For example, some women don’t have insurance, and some women don’t have access to transportation. According to the Office on Women’s Health , women who do not seek out prenatal care are three times more likely to have a baby who is born underweight. What Services Do We Offer?

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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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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. Envisioned by Seattle pediatrician Abraham Bergman, MD as a way to recruit idealistic young physicians to "doctor deficient" communities throughout the U.S.,

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The Health Policy Exchange

MARCH 26, 2014

is actually experiencing a physician shortage that will worsen with population growth, the aging of the baby boomer generation, and an influx of newly insured from the Affordable Care Act. Projecting future physician workforce needs is a challenging calculation that must take multiple variables into account to avoid missing its mark.

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Integrated Care News by CFHA

MAY 8, 2025

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. Vaccine hesitancy is the delay in accepting or refusing vaccination despite the availability of vaccination services. I discussed this debate in my previous blog post.

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Concierge Choice Physicians

JANUARY 21, 2025

The physician continues to accept insurance and government programs, as before. Archer is now one of nine physicians at Heart Specialists of Sarasota to offer CCP’s Hybrid Choice. The CCP Hybrid Choice program is unique in that it offers patients the choice to join, or to remain in the traditional practice, as before.

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Concierge Choice Physicians

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

No patients are ever turned away, and the physicians continue to accept insurance and Medicare. Unlike conventional concierge programs, CCP’s Hybrid Choice program is a unique style of membership medicine that works well in large healthcare organizations like SJPP. Patients are able to choose the practice experience they want.

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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 19, 2025

It has already been adopted across healthcare institutions in Hong Kong as well as by multinational health insurer Bupa. Recently, a new trend has emerged where artificial intelligence (AI)-based apps are detecting vital signs as well as possible illness indicators from patients’ faces alone.

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Medical Xpress

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Enjoy it while it lasts: Workers' pay has been growing faster than the cost of job-based health insurance.

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Concierge Choice Physicians

JANUARY 28, 2025

The physician continues to accept insurance and government programs, as before. Caruso is now one of nine physicians at Heart Specialists of Sarasota to offer CCP’s Hybrid Choice. The CCP Hybrid Choice program is unique in that it offers patients the choice to join, or to remain in the traditional practice, as before.

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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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Dr. Zaar

MAY 20, 2025

Because of remote monitoring, patients in the USA can monitor their blood sugar at home and talk to health experts in real time. The article goes into detail about remote monitoring, its advantages, and how you can begin using it. What Is Remote Blood Sugar Monitoring? Definition and how it works Devices used (e.g.,

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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. A grassroots movement is underway.

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Noreta Family Medicine

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Since we are not signed up with any health insurance companies (We charge patients a monthly fee), we don’t have any pressure from insurance companies or healthcare systems to see an unreasonable number of patients per day. A third barrier is that insurance companies often do not pay for nutrition counseling.

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Plum Health

JUNE 9, 2025

This practice model allows me to provide more personalized accessible care without the constraints of traditional insurance, offering longer visits, easier communication, and a stronger focus on patient care. ” — Donovan Ogboh, DO Enroll With Dr. Ogboh Now What Is Plum Health Direct Primary Care? Learn more about DPC

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Noreta Family Medicine

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Nowadays, instead of directly charging a patient before they leave the office, most primary care offices file a health insurance claim and the patient may not receive a bill, and the office may not be paid for months or years!). We learned about when insurance was introduced into the healthcare system, first with Medicare, then with HMOs.

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Family Physicians of St. Joseph

MARCH 14, 2018

From the Detroit News If there’s any more argument to be made about getting third-party insurers — whether government or private insurance — out of most routine health care, here’s one. But thank goodness my son has insurance — and will be on a parent’s insurance until he’s 26 years old, god willing. more, or a 947.54

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Dr. Zaar

MAY 20, 2025

Costs vary depending on the platform, province, and whether you have got insurance insurance. Private insurance frequently covers extra offerings or medicinal drugs prescribed. The cost varies depending on the platform, province, and do you have insurance coverage. What Is Hormonal Therapy? It is easy to start.

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NPR Health - Shots

OCTOBER 19, 2022

A youth mental health crisis and a shortage of therapists and other care providers who take insurance are pushing many U.S. families into financial ruin. But it's rarely acknowledged as medical debt. Image credit: Jesse Zhang for NPR and KHN)

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