Integrated Care News by CFHA

APRIL 16, 2025

It moves away from fragmented systems, provides alternatives to medication-only treatment paths, and leads patients to practical pathways for healing—whether for anxiety, diabetes management, depression, or addiction. For example, annual behavioral health wellness visits should be reimbursable across the lifespan.

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A Country Doctor Writes

JUNE 1, 2025

Primary care doctors don’t usually have scheduled blocks of time to read incoming reports, refill prescriptions, answer messages or, what we are told the future will entail, manage their chronic disease populations. Slow and fast visits require different mindsets and skill sets.

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Patients Primary Care Doctor Primary Care Wellness Visit 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

In our institution, screenings are completed for patients ≥15 years during well visits; those not presenting for well visits and under 15 may represent missed opportunities. Providers were alerted of positive screens by rooming staff to either assess further or refer to our Pediatric SUD Clinic to manage.

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Primary Care Screening Referral Wellness Visit 130

GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

But the thing that really motivates me is seeing, you know, and trying to manage later stage, you know, we can call them complications of people who haven’t had a diagnosis are now really in, you know, a world of complexity around other conditions, around managing life and managing practical things. What should I use?

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Screening Primary Care Patient-Centered IT 119

Mesa Family Physician

MAY 8, 2025

It’s more than just visiting your doctor when something feels off—it’s about catching potential problems early, staying on top of health screenings, and setting goals that keep you feeling your best. Medicare Part B does not cover a traditional annual physical in the way many expect, but it does offer a Medicare Annual Wellness Visit.

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Preventive Care Preventative Care Wellness Visit Routine Screenings 100

GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

And so there’s complexity in Understanding how each state manages this. So on the clinical side, people are really focused on how long do they have to be on the ventilator and managing that. The annual wellness visit, well, is a great time to check in because those are really tailor made opportunities.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Healthcare 109

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Emmy: I think we’ve heard a lot about things like, “How do you embed it in preventive wellness visits?” Emmy: Following up later, they stayed in our observation unit overnight to seek physical therapy, occupational therapy, get hooked up with case management, the functional side that they really needed.

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