This law would return primary care to the primary care physician.
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Humana owns Partners in Primary Care, a senior-focused primary care practice.
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Primary care provider: State statute does not explicitly recognize nurse practitioners as primary care providers.
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In 2010, I.B.M. encouraged greater use of primary care by eliminating cost-sharing for primary care visits.
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Critical shortage of primary care physicians Another major factor is the lack of primary care physicians, he said.
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The problem is not really a shortage of primary care physicians: it is a shortage of primary care.
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Oak HC/FT has been an investor in primary care companies like VillageMD and Paladina Health, which operate primary care practices.
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In 2015, 17 of 23 primary care doctors left, according to Laura Follett, who oversaw scheduling for Roseburg's primary care clinic.
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As consumers, patients and employers, we need to stop paying primary care physicians to perform transactions and start demanding strong relationships with primary care physicians (as visionary primary care providers Iora Health and Qliance have proven with outstanding results).
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Taking primary care nationalAledade isn&apost alone in looking for new ways to provide and pay for primary care on a national level.
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To the Editor: When I began my new job in 1975 as the financial manager at a primary care clinic, I was shocked at how few primary care doctors were in the community and how little money went to primary care and prevention services.
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Andy Lazris, MD, a primary care doctor in Maryland, is author of "Curing Medicare" and co-chairman of the Right Care Alliance primary care council.
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Primary care visits were in the middle, with billing functions accounting for 15 percent of revenue, or about $100,000 per year per primary care provider.
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Primary care provider: State law implies, but does not explicitly state, that nurse practitioners can be listed as a primary care provider, according to MidlevelU.
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Arizona is facing shortages of primary-care physicians in all counties, and the issue is worse in rural areas, meeting under half of primary care needs.
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"Access to good primary care and primary care physicians could be a very valuable resource in terms of increasing organ donation across the board," says Wilder.
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Fair compensation and working conditions from the health-care system, excellent training in strong primary care residency programs, and nurturing and encouraging our best students in medical school to go into primary care, will all go a long way toward ensuring a healthy primary care pipeline.
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Addressing how we deliver and pay for primary care will remove these barriers, and that requires us to examine how the U.S. insurance-based healthcare system pays for primary care and how primary care physicians are required to deliver care in order to receive such payment.
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The five-year Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+) aims to shift payers and primary care doctors to what's being called a value system based on patient outcomes.
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Big hospital groups are also eroding primary care practices: They employed 43 percent of the nation's primary care doctors in 2016, up from 23 percent in 2010.
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Ms. Gentieu found that only 15 percent of those listed as primary care doctors in one Medical Mutual network were actually primary care physicians taking new patients.
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Many of them cover primary care services for individuals who would otherwise have no access because they live in rural areas with very few primary care physicians.
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Teaching hospital: Teaching hospitals on the same campus as medical and nursing schools may house primary care offices or have affiliated primary care clinics offsite in neighboring communities.
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We found that the people who had a primary care provider were about four times less likely to be infected than those who had no primary care provider.
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Patients who had a primary care physician, but still went to a retail clinic, did so because their primary care doctors were not available in a timely manner.
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A primary care HPSA is a designation of an area and its population that has officially been defined as having a significant shortage of primary care health professionals.
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In America, the high cost of medical education, a reimbursement system that favors specialists and a poorly supported primary care network have decimated our primary care work force.
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Lilly is focusing its marketing efforts on primary care practices and says it has encountered few health insurer restrictions on prescriptions written by primary care doctors instead of specialists.
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A study published in JAMA Pediatrics last year showed that adding individual health coaching to enhanced primary care reduced pediatric obesity, but no more than enhanced primary care alone.
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Studies published just before the 2014 coverage expansion predicted a demand for millions more annual primary care appointments, requiring thousands of new primary care providers just to keep up.
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Nationwide, primary care doctors outnumber nurse practitioners (NPs) by a wide margin, with almost 244,000 physicians in this field as of 2016 compared with about 123,000 NPs in primary care.
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The rules remain despite a robust consensus of research showing that independent nurse practitioners provide primary care that is equal to—and sometimes better than—that of primary care physicians.
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Primary care: Although it may be difficult to see a physician on short notice, primary care providers can often handle the problems of established patients by telephone at no cost.
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Two useful indicators of access to care are wait times to see a primary care physician and how well a state meets the needs of its residents for primary care.
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Between 2008-2016, visits to primary care providers declined by 24.2%, while the proportion of adults with zero primary care provider visits in a given year rose from 38.1% to 46.4%.
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The participants rated how informed their primary care doctors were about breast cancer, how often they talked with their primary care doctors and how often doctors were involved in treatment decisions.
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Further, in counties where there was inadequate access to primary care physicians and psychiatrists (meaning no primary care provider within a 70-minute drive, for example) the subscription rate was 38.6 percent.
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"Patients are looking for primary care, and it's something our system is really in need of is more access to high-quality primary care," said Dr. Patrick Carroll, Walgreens' chief medical officer.
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Not only can primary care doctors help patients select specialists and hospitals — and advise them when they're necessary at all — but retaining primary care physician relationships is also important to many patients.
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Primary care only accounted for between 2.1% and 4.9% of total Medicare spending in 2015, depending on how primary care is defined, according to a new RAND study published in JAMA Internal Medicine.
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The agency estimates there are approximately 125,000 primary care pediatricians and family practitioners in the US, which means the average primary care practice may treat up to 50 pediatric patients with severe obesity.
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The state's Office of Mental Health is building incentive structures to encourage primary care providers to adopt the Collaborative Care Model, or the integration of behavioral health services into the primary care setting.
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"I don't have a primary care doctor," Ms. Whitefield said.
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That lack of knowledge spurred Trauma Informed Primary Care project.
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Lebanon has followed suit, integrating mental health into primary care.
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How comfortable are primary care physicians in discussing genetic results?
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How do insurance, Medicare and Medicaid pay primary care physicians?
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In some cases, that may mean switching primary care providers.
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His email to his primary care physician was borderline apologetic.
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Dutch patients can visit a primary care doctor for free.
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We have been practicing primary care medicine for 30 years.
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I said, well convert it to primary care health center.
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The company also has a primary care group, Amazon Care.
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Medicine, particularly primary care medicine, is more than just treatment.
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"Primary care physicians should regularly assess body weight," he said.
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My thought bubble: The use of the ER for primary care is often treated as a thing that happens mainly in lower-income areas with lower health literacy and worse access to primary care.
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The idea is to offer services that go beyond primary care but can often be done by a primary-care doctor, as well as give One Medical users access to the larger health system.
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A key barrier to integrating abortion into primary care is that, in rural areas, primary care is largely provided by advanced practice clinicians (APCs) like nurse practitioners, nurse midwives, and physician assistants, McLemore said.
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To assess the primary care workforce, researchers examined U.S. census data as well as data on the physician workforce from the American Medical Association, plus Medicare billing records on doctors and nurses providing primary care.
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To find out, primary care doc Jason Vassy recruited a handful of colleagues from around Boston to sequence the full genomes of 50 patients—the first randomized trial of whole genome sequencing in primary care.
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Primary care physicians "get paid way less than specialists," she said.
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Go deeper: 44 million Americans live with a primary care shortage
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Despite the government's reforms, underuse of primary care has actually worsened.
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" And my mom said, "I can't question my primary care physician.
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Primary care can deal with the vast majority of medical consultations.
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Fortunately, incentives can also be used to make primary care better.
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There is emphasis on primary care and fewer referrals to specialists.
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Primary care physicians like Sulaiman are among those in short supply.
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The clinic has tried to create a seamless primary-care setting.
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Medicare has covered depression screenings in primary care settings since 2012.
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Make your primary care physician aware of any forays into telehealth.
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Many primary care doctors are probably already screening people for depression.
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A rational cost-effective medical system must start with primary care.
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Imagine being sick but lacking access to a primary care doctor.
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To the Editor: I am a primary care internist in Manhattan.
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Jason D. Fodeman, MD, MBA is a practicing primary care physician.
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Dr. Gerold Sibanda, a primary care doctor in rural Greensboro, Ala.
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Delaney Ruston, MD, is a primary care physician and documentary filmmaker.
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"People are using it as their primary care doctor," says Desai.
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This has been true in the primary-care and hospital settings.
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This was surprising, given that their primary care access increased too.
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That said, I find her statements about primary care physicians offensive.
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In primary care, doctors run late because the workload is impossible.
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Primary care is the bedrock of an effective health care system.
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Delaney RustonSeattleThe writer is a primary-care doctor and documentary filmmaker.
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The average salary for the system's primary care doctors is $236,000.
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Primary care doctors also need to pay attention, Dr. Oslin said.
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Fields like primary-care medicine seemed, by comparison, squishy and uncertain.
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Increasing physician specialization is creating a shortage of primary care providers.
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It also invested in an innovative primary care group called Qliance.
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Free clinics and federally qualified health centers provide free primary care.
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"It's a very patient-centered definition of primary care," Levine said.
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I recently retired from almost 40 years of primary care pediatrics.
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CAROLINE POPLIN, BETHESDA, MD. The writer is a primary care physician.
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An uptick in investor appetite for primary care entrants could send a vote of confidence to payers, and we could see more tie-ups among large insurers and startups operating in the entrenched primary care space.
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So it's important for patients to make their decision for screening with their primary care physician, and I'm encouraged that this study shows most primary care physicians still believe in annual screening starting at age 40.
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Many specialists are no more expensive and earn no more than primary care physicians, and contribute much to the care and management of complex and often chronic diseases for the same fees as primary care doctors.
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For Levine, primary care isn't about healthy people getting an annual physical, it's about having a relationship with a particular primary care provider, so that when you do get sick that doctor knows something about you.
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And the insurer expects its new JV to more than double the footprint of Partners in Primary Care, which currently operates 47 senior-focused primary care centers across Florida, Kansas, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Texas.
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She also encouraged me to let my primary care doctor know about this medicine and any other changes and included a link to where I could find a primary care doctor if I didn't already have one.
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Hence, primary care physicians see 25+ patients per day as quickly as possible, while insurance, Medicare and Medicaid mandate an incredible level of administrative work in order to make primary care physicians justify payment for each transaction.
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That left many anxious people with mild symptoms running a never-ending gantlet: primary care doctors referred them to state public health officials, who referred them to emergency rooms, who referred them back to primary care doctors.
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It is offering a virtual primary care employer plan with insurer Humana, and has also partnered with Walmart on a new video-based primary care service that the retailer is offering workers in Colorado, Minnesota and Wisconsin.
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Over the last two decades, Medicare fee schedules have disproportionately benefited specialist physicians over primary care physicians, despite the fact that the current fee schedule was originally intended to benefit primary care physicians when implemented in 1992.
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Bear in mind this number is specialists and primary care physicians combined.
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My issue: Like many Americans, I don't have a primary care practitioner.
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In Europe, opioids are generally dispensed by specialists, not primary care doctors.
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Nurse midwives can act as primary care providers for women and newborns.
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It is everyone's business, from emergency room doctors to primary care physicians.
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"It doesn't make any sense," my primary care doctor said to me.
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That included 271.29 psychiatrists, 22014,22015 primary care physicians and 533,2014 other specialists.
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Findings were published in the Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care.
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And primary care doctors were less likely than specialists to offer appointments.
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Why it matters: OB-GYNs are crucial primary-care physicians for women.
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I think the biggest systemic change would be focusing on primary care.
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"Alternative practitioners shouldn't be your go-to primary care physician," Caulfield said.
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"We use a private doctor for primary care," says expat Barbara Jones.
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Dr. Henderson, 35, is also a primary care physician at Mass General.
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Some people who don't realize this assume primary care physicians are dispensable.
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Texas ranks 47th out of 50 for adequacy of primary care services.
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It takes at least seven years to produce a primary care physician.
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Neglect of primary care is often the unintended result of good intentions.
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There is an emphasis on primary care and fewer referrals to specialists.
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Simultaneously explore payment options like Direct Primary Care that clearly save money.
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He added that smartphones could help deliver primary care faster and cheaper.
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Mitra Rangarajan MSN, specializes in gastroenterology, hepatology and primary care/diabetes management.
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Three times he visited a primary care practice, complaining of chest pains.
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And it rolled out primary-care clinics that operate inside Walmart stores.
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Sometimes this even happens during a visit with a primary care physician.
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I wish we'd invested in a primary care initiative a decade ago.
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Humana will run the clinics through its Partners in Primary Care business.
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Psychiatry has had much more uptake on this than has primary care.
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Infectious disease prevention, emergency preparedness and primary care made do with less.
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This goes not just for primary care offices, but for specialists, too.
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Primary-care medicine is the key to reducing medical emergencies and costs.
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Prices are also set for particular services, like after-hours primary care.
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Nearly half of benzo prescription visits were to a primary care provider.
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This includes primary care physicians located on premise at behavioral health clinics.
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And that's the relationship between the patient and the primary care practitioner.
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But, Asaf insisted, that's not really how primary-care clinicians save lives.
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"I don't know a primary-care physician who eats lunch," she said.
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We go to the emergency room instead of a primary-care doctor.
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The tech-enabled primary care provider filed to go public last week.
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Read more: Primary-care startup One Medical just filed to go public.
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As a primary care physician, I will be watching closely on Jan.
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Biden's proposal specifies that primary care would be covered with no copayment.
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It hired a senior doctor out of an innovative primary care group.
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We support legislation Protecting Access to Primary Care Act sponsored by Rep.
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We need primary care docs, physician's assistants, and telemedicine, all pulling together.
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The neurologist reviewed the blood test obtained by the primary-care doctor.
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I've got patients who were sent to me from primary care docs.
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The health insurance giant's subsidiary Partners in Primary Care entered a joint venture (JV) with private equity firm Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe to develop more primary care centers for its Medicare Advantage (MA) patients, according to Modern Healthcare.
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"We need to rebuild our primary-care system first, through a network of government funded, fully paid community health centers where anybody — not just poor people — where everybody could go for their primary care for free," she explained.
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Watch More from VICE News: The points system in the announcement favors clinics that offer comprehensive primary care, "optimally onsite," which advocates say penalizes providers that specialize in family planning because they tend not to offer primary care.
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Jessica Beaman, a primary care doctor and assistant professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, points out that primary care providers play a critical role in supporting underserved patients in both rural and urban settings.
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There's been a shortage of primary care physicians in the US. According to an April 2019 report from the Association of American Medical Colleges, the US faces a shortage of up to 55,200 primary care doctors by 2032.
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Students tell me that they are dissuaded from going into primary care by mentors who tell them that they are, "too smart to go into primary care" and should think about becoming a surgeon, radiologist or another specialist instead.
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The Collaborative Care Medicaid Program, launched in the state in 2015, offers primary care providers a method of financial sustainability to integrate behavioral health care into the primary care setting through supplemental monthly payments at a specified case rate.
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The government recently announced a new policy to expand the primary care workforce.
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However, the primary care community may not recognize potential safety risks, he said.
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In other countries, there is no cost to the patient for primary care.
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Yet between 2002 and 2013 the number of primary-care providers actually fell.
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Do you want to choose your own primary care physicians, specialists, and hospitals?
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Second, the Affordable Care Act could mandate administrative time for primary care doctors.
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On average in California, there's one primary care physician for every 227,27 people.
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Direct primary care, while very promising, is only one model for doing this.
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Serani also recommended speaking with your primary care doctor about your physical health.
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Some states also require these results to be sent to primary care physicians.
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Apple also approached nationwide primary care group One Medical, said two other sources.
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Many safety net clinics are primary care centers that also offer birth control.
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How about asking the patient, their healthcare proxy, or the primary care provider?
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In particular, they are facing shortages of primary care doctors and nursing staff.
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More typically, they are seen in general practice medical settings, like primary care.
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Yet, only 6900 percent of primary care practices are accepting new Medicare patients.
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I'm done with primary care, I'm going to be an urgent-care doctor.
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Meanwhile, payers are moving toward becoming providers by investing in primary care clinics.
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His mother is a quality director for Preferred Primary Care Physicians in Pittsburgh.
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In primary care, it projects a shortfall of between 12,500 and 31,100 doctors.
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Jacob Lucas was denied PrEP by a primary care doctor in Muncie, Indiana.
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Others will come in for minor complaints better managed by primary care doctors.
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Experts cite several reasons primary care physicians don't routinely diagnose and treat STDs.
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She asked her primary-care doctor to refer her for a second opinion.
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Outpatient clinics have no place for them and primary care physicians, no time.
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So why are primary care providers still generally reluctant to provide addiction treatment?
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Patients must exercise reasonable judgment and, whenever possible, consult their primary care physician.
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The US system is notoriously expensive and access to primary care is patchy.
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The person on the phone directed me to contact my primary care provider.
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I suspect many primary-care practitioners will want to ignore this new target.
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Five days later, her primary care doctor sent her back to the hospital.
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We already have a primary care shortage – this needs to be fixed now.
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His medical history was stored electronically and transferred between his primary care providers.
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Dr. Brennan said CVS was not looking to replace patients' primary care doctors.
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She had never intended to pursue a career in primary care, she said.
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However, older people generally do not pay for primary care and get priority.
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Her father is an internist and a primary care physician in Bridgeport, Conn.
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In baseball terms, it is still early innings for these primary care models.
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Luckily, the physician's assistant I see for primary care puts me at ease.
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As GoodRx notes, access to primary care physicians is hard for most Americans.
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Gail Boudreaux isn&apost interested in being in the business of primary care.
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The primary-care startup One Medical on Friday filed paperwork to go public.
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The primary-care startup One Medical just filed for an initial public offering.
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I've worked in primary care, acute care, critical care, a variety of settings.
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Weissman says getting primary care physicians better trained is an important first step.
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"We don't know whether it's because of something that happens in the hospital as a result of the primary care physician's decisions, or because of how a primary care physician's presence in the hospital influences post-hospital care," Stevens added.
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To that same point, it's important to talk to your primary care physician before seeing another doctor who specializes in IV drips, because your primary care physician knows specific information about your health and can help you make an informed decision.
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Incorporate behavioral health into routine primary care We must seamlessly integrate behavioral health services — routine screenings, appropriate care and referrals — into the fabric of primary care delivery, meeting the person's and family's needs in the moments they need it most.
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And with around one primary care physician per 6663,000 people in the U.S., primary care practitioners are subsequently faced with an overwhelming number of patients and are unable to focus on more complex cases that may require more time and resources.
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Investors are betting big on national primary care modelsWhen One Medical filed to go public with the US Securities and Exchange Commission in January, its filing gave a comprehensive look at the financials behind a primary care provider with national ambitions.
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That's up from about 226,0003 doctors and 59,000 NPs providing primary care in 2010.
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For all this to happen, primary care and home support will need to improve.
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The emphasis shifts to primary care with less emphasis on referral and subspecialty services.
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In 2019, the agency plans to strengthen and improve primary care in many countries.
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But for a lot of primary care situations, you can probably talk through telehealth.
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"Five million Canadian families do not have primary care physicians at all," she said.
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They're getting more active in the delivery of primary care, including worksite health clinics.
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During each meeting, a primary care provider (or more) shares a complex patient case.
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There's a decent chance the drug would expire on a primary care doctor's shelf.
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As a primary care physician, I know that's an excruciating wait for vital information.
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Numerous studies have shown the effectiveness of bringing behavioral services into primary care practices.
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LG: But the primary care doctor isn't necessarily reading the results of your exams.
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Otherwise, I can see my psychiatrist, therapist, primary care doctor, and dentist for free.
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Kate's visit to her VA primary care physician a few weeks later was different.
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Americares is delivering medicine and supplies, including insulin, to hospitals and primary care clinics.
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Ann Greiner is the CEO and president of the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative.
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She went to see her primary care doctor, who sent her to a pulmonologist.
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We complain all the time that people use the emergency room for primary care.
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In parts of west Africa with better primary care, it was more easily contained.
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It's shaping up to be an even more interesting time for primary care startups.
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Another is the Veterans Affairs system, which established Home Based Primary Care in 153.
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He said the most immediate benefit was creating new channels for simple primary care.
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For instance, a primary-care visit costs $33, while a dental visit costs $25.
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Moreover, disruptive delivery models like CVS Health-Aetna are working with primary care practices.
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Seeing a primary care physician for check ups, for example, can save your life.
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For instance, a primary-care visit costs $40, while a dental visit costs $25.
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That's decreased to around 15 percent, as more people are treated in primary care.
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But in the meantime they -- and their children -- will forgo preventive and primary care.
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Since then, NYU has opened a primary-care-focused medical school on Long Island.
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"Primary care providers are too focused on diagnosing disease and treating it," he said.
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But because of the onerous certification process, few primary care clinicians offer the medication.
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"Well, you look like you're doing great," my primary care physician cheerfully informed me.
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There are a significant number of primary care providers, but there are also specialists.
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Instead, workers should stay home, notify their supervisor, and call their primary care doctor.
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One thing he was certain about, however: He needed a new primary-care doctor.
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As an explanation for common symptoms, "primary care doctors like it," said Dr. Brito.
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The benefits are quite comprehensive: hospital care, primary care, prescription drugs, traditional Chinese medicine.
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Primary care doctors, the gatekeepers through which the whole system flows, sometimes feel strained.
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In many countries, the lion's share of health care spending is on primary care.
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Or end new research on ways primary care practitioners can best treat opioid abuse?
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Michigan nurse practitioners are not explicitly recognized as primary care providers under state law.
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Nor does it have a simple answer, as primary care doctors become increasingly scarce.
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"We're not trying to buy up an entire layer of primary care," he said.
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One study found that only about half of primary care physicians use the database.
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This was not, however, the way the woman's primary-care physician approached her condition.
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The study randomly assigned 1,300 African-Americans to black or nonblack primary care physicians.
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The primary-care company One Medical surged in its stock-market debut on Friday.
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Hospitals have been trying to share the savings with doctors or primary care practices.
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The health law encourages primary care doctors to incorporate addiction treatment into their practices.
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Take this list with you when you go to see your primary care provider.
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The experience is reminiscent of booking a first appointment with a primary care physician.
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Direct primary care can help reduce health costs by addressing minor issues early on.
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Aledade and Privia aren't alone at trying to build new approaches to primary care.
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"By making abortion part of primary care, we can de-stigmatize it," she explains.
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Another limitation of the study is that even the primary care providers still had extensive training in sleep medicine, making it unclear if all apnea patients would get similar outcomes from their own primary care provider, who might not have this training.
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"We have made the point to the company that they are sub-scale to be in primary care," Denner said in an interview, meaning Ironwood is too small to sell a drug to primary-care physicians, which generally requires a large salesforce.
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For the most part, primary care organizations tend to be privately held organizations, or a part of a larger public healthcare company, making it tricky to get a clear picture of where One Medical&aposs financials sit among other primary care businesses.
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As the country's largest primary-care network, community health centers provide a range of services — including mental health and emergency response services to those in crisis, prevention and wellness programs, primary care to uninsured, and medical homes ⎯ for patients who need it most.
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"Primary care is our health system's front line of defense, detection, and treatment," Mokdad said.
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HHS funds non-profit Community Health Centers (CHC's) to provide primary care to the underserved.
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They rarely discussed the surgery with their primary care physicians before arriving at the clinics.
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For the internist/primary care provider sample, margin is plus or minus 4.5 percentage points.
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Neither his primary care physician nor his neurologist could identify the cause of his deterioration.
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Soon, a spa day could start out like a visit to your primary-care physician.
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She went to her local primary-care centre, which referred her to Nakornayok provincial hospital.
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Without understanding why quality is so poor, the potential of primary care will remain unrealised.
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Are our health care costs astronomically high because we don't have enough primary-care doctors?
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The integration of primary care services into community-based behavioral health is key to this.
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She also devised the strategy for Stanford's first virtual primary care clinic, called ClickWell Care.
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Jackson does training on the stigma, not only for psychologists but also primary care providers.
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Thomas was not at a health clinic or pharmacy or a primary care physician's office.
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In our current environment, being "comprehensive" just means more work for the primary care doctor.
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Paladina operates a "direct primary care," business, which means that its doctors don't accept insurance.
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Successful employers, plans, and health systems are finding strong primary care to be absolutely essential.
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In ACOs, primary care doctors are responsible for a patient's overall health and health spending.
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As her geriatrician and primary care physician, I had one question: How did you fall?
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And, provision of these prescriptions by primary care physicians is a quality of care issue.
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As primary care doctors, we wanted to understand how widespread lead poisoning is in America.
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You can download this Cycle Report to send to your primary care doctor or obstetrician.
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These plans may require you to name a primary care provider to coordinate your care.
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Soaring costs and access to primary care options remain persistent challenges, especially in rural areas.
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Primary care doctors typically are paid less, and the field carries less prestige, he said.
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That was after a few visits to urgent care and the woman's primary-care doctor.
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Wait times fell, and a large majority of primary care doctors said it improved care.
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The key to receiving great primary care isn't to see your doctor in the morning.
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This has become my afternoon ritual during my 20 years as a primary care doctor.
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Scrolling down the list of my primary care patients, I wondered who might be affected.
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Or they don't have a primary care doctor and they don't know where to go.
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This means that your primary care experience will likely change over the next few weeks.
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She was there because she had moved to Pittsburgh and needed a primary-care doctor.
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Past studies have shown a growing number of primary care doctors have written these prescriptions.
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Primary care doctors handle most health care for patients without access to major medical centers.
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If therapy isn't accessible (ask your primary care doctor), then, hotline — 800-799-SAFE. 2.
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China does not have a functioning primary care system, so most people flock to hospitals.
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The shortage of primary care providers in rural and low-income areas is particularly acute.
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The idea is that anyone could use it, including coaches, primary care doctors and pharmacists.
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This reminds me that I need to see my primary care PA for travel meds.
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Health professionals know that all Americans deserve decent healthcare, including primary care and preventive care.
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Instead pay a monthly fee – usually around $100 – in exchange for unlimited primary care services.
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My own primary care provider has recommended against treating this number medically at this time.
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Investors are betting millions that primary-care companies can become businesses with a national reach.
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The study, in JAMA Network Open, covered four specialties: primary care, cardiology, dermatology and orthopedics.
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Primary-care doctors strongly influence choice, and insurance company provider networks limit choices even further.
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These are optimal environments to drive behavioral health integration beyond just the primary care setting.
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Primary care, which is mostly at low cost, is provided mostly by the private sector.
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Canvas serves primary care clinicians with highly usable medical record technology that facilitates clinical reasoning.
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Some of the difference in participation between primary care providers and mental health providers might also reflect a shift in the medical profession that has seen fewer people pursue behavioral health and more individuals choose careers in primary care and family or internal medicine.
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In the clinics, Wanamaker and his team were hoping to offer primary care visits that cost $40 in cash, so that those without insurance might be able to get a cheaper visit than they might if they went to a traditional primary care office.
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But many Americans don't have a regular primary care doctor, and those that do could have trouble reaching them after hours or on weekends, said Dr. David Blumenthal, a primary care physician and president of The Commonwealth Fund, a health care research and policy organization.
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I did pick a new primary care doctor because my last one left in the hullabaloo.
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By 2025, the U.S. could find itself needing somewhere between 14,900 and 35,600 primary care physicians.
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There are ancillary businesses that insurers can eventually create, like a network of primary care clinics.
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And for those already in medicine, much-needed areas like primary care don't pay competitive salaries.
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"Such as the involvement of primary care providers in providing appropriate screening and education on firearms."
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There's less financial incentive to invest in specialties like primary care, which are experiencing a shortage.
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But with generalists, patients were 9 percent more likely to die than with primary care physicians.
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The steepest decline in primary care visits was, perhaps not surprisingly, among the youngest, healthiest individuals.
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I barely saw a primary care doctor, let alone a specialist as "luxurious" as a therapist.
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Extra benefits like dedicated nurses and more primary care appointments are costly for health care providers.
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"The more of our community that has a primary care physician, the better," Schlactus told me.
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When the study ended, he saw his primary care doctor and obtained a prescription for AndroGel.
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They didn't approach their primary care physician, an internist, a therapist, psychiatrist, clergy member—no one.
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Overall, there were 4,604 telemedicine visits, 38,408 urgent care visits and 485,201 primary care provider visits.
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In a country once famed for its readily accessible "barefoot doctors", primary care is in tatters.
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Attempts to improve primary care must take account of the incentives that influence what doctors do.
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The guidelines reiterate how important it is for primary care doctors to screen adolescents, he said.
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First, our presidential contenders might pledge to expand programs for loan forgiveness for primary care clinicians.
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But when you have citizens with no primary care access at all, it's an obvious improvement.
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As a primary care physician, every day opens a window into why medical costs are escalating.
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As a solo family medicine physician I have direct primary care as one of my offerings.
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Direct primary care is a contract between my patients and me for care — no middle man.
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An ultrasound examination by a primary care physician several weeks ago detected the fetus had abnormalities.
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"It has really strengthened the relationship between the primary care clinician and the family," Earls said.
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The hospital also recently acquired a big primary care practice that serves New York City suburbs.
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Many of these people wouldn't be comfortable asking their primary care physicians for marijuana, she says.
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In normal conditions, the center provides everything from primary care and pharmacy services to X-rays.
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The United States only devotes 5-21625 cents of each health care dollar to primary care.
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Those are primary care doctors' offices that offer a comprehensive, patient-centered, team-based, coordinated approach.
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Its customers all use the service in outpatient settings, which includes primary care and plastic surgery.
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Most endocrinologists and primary care physicians are unaware of the effects of decreased hearing with diabetes.
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The savings were concentrated among enrollees who retained their primary care physician as they switched plans.
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In principle, primary care physicians agreed that short-term treatment with benzodiazepines was the best practice.
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A primary care provider will not be able to have that much contact with a patient.
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Every day, nearly 85033 million Americans receive quality primary care and chronic care management at home.
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Indeed, Desai mentioned Texas because the state has outlawed telemedicine as an option for primary care.
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The recommendations were designed for primary care clinicians who are prescribing opioids for chronic noncancer pain.
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H.I.V. specialist primary-care providers at community health centers make pre-exposure prophylaxis accessible through outreach.
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The nation is still facing a shortage of primary care physicians and wait times did increase.
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"It's insanity," said a primary care doctor in Massachusetts, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
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The bride, 32, is a primary care physician and the medical director of the Lakeland, Fla.
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Even plans with wide primary care networks can have narrow mental health ones, the study found.
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Do you think the number of primary care providers who prescribe buprenorphine is growing fast enough?
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First, she called the King County hotline and was told to call her primary care provider.
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He added that he'd self-imposed a 14-day quarantine after consulting his primary care physician.
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Other health-care workers, including internal medicine physicians and primary care physicians, command six-figure salaries.
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But when it comes to managing acid reflux, specialists offer no advantage over primary care physicians.
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One Medical, a company that offers convenient access to primary care, recently filed to go public.
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It has increased access to primary care, specialty care, surgery, medicines, and treatment for chronic conditions.
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Administration officials have continually emphasized the importance of primary care and the "social determinants" of health.
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There are discrepancies between the desires of primary care physicians and those employed in specialty care.
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Further, the more complex a person's medical needs are the greater the benefit of primary care.
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Together, the two states have an average of 62 primary care doctors for every 100 people.
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To the Editor: I called to make a same-day appointment with my primary care doctor.
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Opinion In my daily work as a primary care internist, I see no letup from pain.
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This past week, my primary-care physician called me with some startling news: iron-deficiency anemia.
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We could teach primary care providers and physicians to talk more about prevention with a client.
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Patients in both cities will also be able to get rides to their primary care physicians.
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Fit has four offerings: no-equipment gyms, health food, primary care, plus yoga and meditation centers.
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The law also boosted the number of people who had a primary care doctor and checkups.
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Her primary care provider, Brandon Wampler, a physician assistant with Heartland Primary Care, in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, told NBC News that he "cautioned her to be leery," to make sure she trusted who was sending it to her and to check the tamper seals on the vials.
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According to the World Health Organization, the international standard for the number of citizens per primary care physician is one for every 1,500 to 2,000 people, with some countries facing much steeper gaps — such as China, where there is only one primary care doctor for every 6,666.
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But if it is above a 4, you might want to consider calling your primary care doctor.
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I make a car maintenance appointment and also schedule my annual physical with my primary care doctor.
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Dr. Thalia Krakower, a primary care physician, faced an emotional "patient" whose condition was on the decline.
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If you have questions or something seems off, always ask your primary care doctor or Ob/Gyn.
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He also said that flossing should be discussed with primary care physicians, not just at dental visits.
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The study was conducted at an academic pediatric primary-care clinic with 77 residents and 26 faculty.
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As part of his education, he worked at a small primary care office in Newport, New Hampshire.
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"Medical abortion can most certainly be incorporated into primary care services," Grossman said during the justCARE announcement.
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Young adults, ages 18-34, were more likely to opt out of their primary care provider visits.
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If our primary care physicians keep us healthy for a year, with really high quality, guess what?
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The organization has 11,000 hospital beds, across 54 hospitals, and 18 primary care centers, he told TechCrunch.
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More than 80% of new primary care patients are able to get an appointment within two weeks.
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Right now, to get a prescription, you need to see a primary care physician or a gyno.
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Anesthesiologists sent more of these bills than any other specialty, followed by primary care and emergency medicine.
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Or your in-network primary care physician sends your routine bloodwork to an out-of-network lab.
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Using this measure the World Health Organisation (WHO) thinks 400m people globally lack access to primary care.
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His primary care physician had been administering a prostate-specific antigen, or PSA, for a few months.
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She will serve as a chief resident for the Yale primary care/medicine-pediatrics program in 2019.
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Still, she served as a primary care OB/GYN for 17 years before she left in 2007.
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The idea is that identification can lead to further engagement with primary care or mental health providers.
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Care managers work with primary care doctors to quickly adjust patients' medications or other treatments as needed.
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Surprisingly, teaching hospitals often play a role in derailing the career of a future primary care practitioners.
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How is it good for health-care delivery to have the ER be their primary care physician?
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Robert L Cook: I'm a primary care physician and I see patients with HIV all the time.
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The data shows that primary care and prevention is important for people with low incomes, he added.
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You also could need a referral from your primary-care doctor to see other physicians or specialists.
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Some experts see a move into primary care as a way to build out its retail footprint.
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The organization's primary care providers talk frequently with Dr. Hawkinberry about the patients they share with him.
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More than 80 percent of the patients had consulted with a primary care physician for their headaches.
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The company is also exploring a move into primary care to improve the processes of care delivery.
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America has an alarming shortage of primary care physicians, and the problem is worse in rural areas.
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Today, low-income Hoosiers on HIP 2.0 also have significantly more primary-care doctors to choose from.
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There are people using the health care law for primary care visits and surgeries and cancer treatments.
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Already, the company's OptumCare business employs or works with 45,000 doctors, from surgeons to primary-care providers.
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Why is this diet controversial (my own otherwise well-informed primary-care doctor was less than enthusiastic)?
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Primary care doctors are on the front lines of this epidemic but specialists have a role, too.
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Really wishing my primary care office had a lobby with a fake fireplace and snacks on hand.
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Primary-care startup One Medical has hired banks ahead of an initial public offering, CNBC reported Tuesday.
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Several insurance plans have partnered with primary care providers to open medical clinics in their geographic footprint.
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The new centers come equipped with primary care, counseling, home care, eye and hearing exams, and dentistry.
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The wait at Dallas VA Medical Center is 10 days for a new patient primary care appointment.
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And the distance that narrow network enrollees traveled for primary care visits — but not for specialists — fell.
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A primary care doctor by training, he had been treating patients in the standard, insurance-backed way.
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But when Lopez first asked her primary care doctor about screening, he reacted with surprise, she says.
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As it expands, the company is looking at markets where there's an acute lack of primary care.
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Ability for women to seek care from an OB/GYN without referral from a primary care physician.
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Eden Health — Eden Health is a healthcare startup combining private primary care, telemedicine and personalized insurance navigation.
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Read on to see how the startups are shaking up the traditional way we do primary care.
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At the time there was no shortage of skepticism about whether doctors would decide on primary care.
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"Will you be my regular doctor?" a new patient seeing me in my primary care clinic asked.
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As a primary care sub-specialist physician, I am unlikely ever to earn this type of salary.
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The nurse will check the students' symptoms before referring them to their primary care provider, Mazyck said.
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The average co-payment for a primary care office visit is $25, according to the Kaiser foundation.
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Last month, Caryn Isaacs went to see her primary care doctor for her annual Medicare wellness visit.
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To the Editor: As a primary care physician, I agree with many of Dr. Sandeep Jauhar's conclusions.
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"What we don't want is for primary care doctors to just start firing these patients," he said.
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A couple of days after returning to Seattle, his mother took him to his primary-care doctor.
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The first time, he was told by his primary care practice that there were no tests available.
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In one study, female primary care physicians waited an average of three minutes before interrupting a patient.
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Last Friday, I took a look at how some primary care practices are faring amid the pandemic.
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Hours later, he said, he was discharged and told to follow up with his primary care doctor.
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CNBC previously reported the company has been opening primary care clinics at its main office in Seattle.
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Three primary-care providers used the telemedical robot on a daily basis with the COVID-0003 patient.
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The task force is made up of volunteers who are experts in primary care and preventive medicine.
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"People do not have the confidence in the competency of typical practitioners who provide primary care today."
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For instance, in Illinois 20 percent more primary care physicians accepted Medicaid after expansion than before it.
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In places where coverage gains were larger — in Medicaid expansion states — primary care appointment availability grew more.
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They make about $120,400 on average, compared to the $211,800 an average US primary care doctor makes.
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In its annual report, the association includes a call for action to the nation's primary care physicians.
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Consider the class of new primary care and medical management companies: ChenMed, Iora Health and Landmark Health.
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As part of that, Yoo expects primary care to have its moment in the spotlight in 2020.
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Yet, somehow, having a primary-care clinician as your main source of care is better for you.
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Amazon isn't the only technology company to set up its own primary care clinics for its workers.
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Opening up primary care delivery to qualified alternative providers would, therefore, make markets in healthcare work better.
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People could still use private primary care providers, but they would have to pay for them, directly.
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The primary-care startup went public on Friday after raising $245 million in its initial public offering.
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One Medical operates primary-care practices that charge a $200 annual fee and bill your health insurance.
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Primary care visits rates decreased for every type of diagnosis except mental health issues, the study found.
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I was referred by my primary-care doctor to a specialist group practice for some allergy tests.
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The health insurer Humana owns either wholly or through joint ventures more than 230 primary care practices.
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Directories for specialty physicians may be even more difficult to navigate than those for primary care doctors.
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Two-thirds of covered workers had co-pays, and 25 percent had co-insurance for primary care.
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These monies could be used for primary care, sick visits, lab tests, medications, and various emergency services.
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The company&aposs OptumCare business employs or works with 46,000 doctors, from surgeons to primary-care providers.
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Altogether, the health insurer owns either wholly or through joint ventures more than 230 primary care practices.
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Specialists, nurses and primary care doctors all earn significantly more in the U.S. compared to other countries.
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In Colorado, scheduling an appointment to see a primary care doctor takes an average of 42 days.
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And they appreciated the school's mission to encourage doctors to work in primary care, helping underserved communities.
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Most of the work involved routine primary care — the management of diabetes, blood pressure and heart disease.
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Finally, the E.R. doctors refused to give her pain medicines unless she had a primary-care physician.
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"We have now in most states what we call immunization registries where your primary care doctor and past primary care doctors load up your vaccine records into a protected registry that allows you and other health care people to tap into it and check your vaccine records," explained Jacobson.
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The country's primary care is geared toward accommodating the needs of patients who are older or have disabilities; doctors make more home visits, and even the after-hours primary care program is set up to be able to reach older people and those with disabilities in their homes.
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The company also touts its in-home health assessments, free primary-care visits and robust network of doctors.
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In 0003, insurance companies reimbursed mental health providers 2000 cents for every dollar they gave primary care doctors.
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In 2004, after a suicide attempt, she was diagnosed by her primary care doctor with depression and PTSD.
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Among patients who've established primary care, it's rare for them to see their PCP as a true partner.
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Nurses and nurse practitioners are gaining a bigger foothold as primary-care providers, while doctors' roles are slipping.
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The merger could transform CVS's 9,700 pharmacy storefronts into community medical hubs for primary care and basic procedures.
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Already, more than 125,000 primary care visits have been conducted on the platform in the last 6 months.
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This is a problem not just for primary care doctors, but dermatologists, dentists and other segments, as well.
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The HMO I was in meant I needed referrals from my primary care physician to see other doctors.
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She pledged to expand funding by $40 billion for primary care services at federally qualified health care centers.
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Primary-care systems are geared towards identifying and treating the conditions that patients walk through the door with.
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The big picture: Greater focus on primary care is associated with high quality health care and lower costs.
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She took her son to see his primary care pediatrician, who then sent Omarion to a nearby hospital.
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A seemingly ideal solution would be to make cancer genetic tests a primary care routine for all adults.
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Costs for testing were about $400 per patient with primary care physicians, compared to about $200 for allergists.
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VillageMD will operate primary care clinics in five Walgreens stores, working with social workers, nurses and Walgreens' pharmacists.
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"The reality of American healthcare is that mental health has to be done in primary care," he said.
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The CDC last year released guidelines urging primary-care physicians to dramatically curtail prescribing opioids for chronic pain.
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But I do know this: burned out primary care doctors simply cannot squeeze more patients into their clinics.
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That may explain why in 28500, just 6900 percent of medical school seniors went to primary care residencies.
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Often, Rosenberg said, integration starts with placing the primary care and mental health providers in the same office.
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Clinical waste is minimized through public health, self-care, strong primary care, and identification of unnecessary procedures. 9.
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No other medical specialty can boast such impactful results and yet primary care doctors are a disappearing species.
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The new program is projected to cover people who use the emergency room as their primary care provider.
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According to some estimates, there could be a shortage of up to 35,000 primary care doctors by 2025.
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They also receive referrals to a primary care physician, classes about diabetes management, and regular blood sugar checks.
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One result: When an adverse health event occurs, it is difficult to see one's primary-care physician quickly.
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Health centers report 28500 million visits annually offering a combination of services from primary care to addiction support.
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Health centers have also been shown to reduce the costs of children's primary care by approximately 28503 percent.
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Iora has innovated in primary care, both in the clinics it opens and the way it bills patients.
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Fifth, support more community health centers to provide primary care services to those without access to a physician.
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The many countries with healthier populations prioritize three health sectors we devalue: primary care, prevention and social care.
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"Most adults, at some point during the course of the year, make a primary care visit," he said.
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It all started, he told me, with a visit to his primary-care provider for a routine physical.
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The global professional services firm offers 16 weeks of maternity leave and eight weeks of primary care leave.
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She had gone to her primary care physician for an annual checkup that went south in a hurry.
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Some American oncologists don't expect primary care physicians to be involved in end-of-life planning at all.
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The first source of help if they are not already in psychiatric treatment is their primary care provider.
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Walmart, America's biggest retailer, this week opened a health clinic that has primary care, dentistry, and counseling services.
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His work led him to Walmart, working on its Care Clinics, where customers could get primary-care services.
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Besides running hospitals, Metro Pacific Investments' hospital subsidiary operates a network of primary care clinics and cancer centers.
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Sometimes, depending where one lives or their insurance status, finding a primary care provider can pose a problem.
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When you have too few primary care physicians, it won't be as easy for patients to see them.
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Clearly this would be especially problematic if appointments with one's preferred primary care doctor are hard to obtain.
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Like many health care initiatives nationwide, the plan for Health & Hospitals encourages better primary care and less hospitalization.
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Dr. Robert Kaufmann had been her primary-care physician since her old doctor left Atlanta a decade ago.
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A week ago, Dr. Matthew Abinante decided that his primary care practice should test for the novel coronavirus.
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Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania recently surveyed 426 primary care physicians about whether Obamacare should be repealed.
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A quarter of eConsult engagements between primary care and specialist physicians were resolved with no visit at all.
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Andrew DiamondSan Francisco To the Editor: The primary care doctor is our first line of defense against disease.
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Seeing your GP Going to see your primary care provider or general practitioner can be a lengthy ordeal.
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Back home, the patient had to figure out what to say to his primary-care doctor, Steve Brooks.
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It is a safety-net hospital, serving mainly low-income patients, including many who lack primary care doctors.
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It'd be another three weeks until I saw a new primary care physician who agreed with the diagnosis.
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CDC officials also told him, should he visit a primary care doctor, to give them the info card.
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At least as it applies to primary care, the A.C.A. has opened doors to obtaining preventive medical treatment.
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But a more recent study suggests primary care appointment availability may not have suffered as much as expected.
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But some provisions of the Affordable Care Act may have enhanced Medicaid enrollees' ability to obtain primary care.
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Frank Pallone (D- New Jersey) -- Jillian Hudspeth, president and CEO of the New Jersey Primary Care Association Rep.
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The Association of American Medical Colleges predicts a shortage of 21,100 and 55,200 primary care physicians by 2032.
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"We need to sort out primary care to stop people coming in in the first place," Stephenson said.
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Louisiana law implies, but does not outright state, nurse practitioners can be officially listed as primary care providers.
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Dr. Green has conducted research on how primary care doctors are talking to patients about gene sequencing services.
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He is working with Aledade, another company focused on reinventing primary care, to make his practice more competitive.
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Likewise, reforms in California that provided all Medicaid recipients with primary-care physicians resulted in lower hospitalization rates.
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As far back as I look in her records, I find no visit with a primary care doctor.
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This dramatically improved health measures and provided a good base of primary care for everyone in the country.
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In July, she will begin working as a primary care physician at the St. Louis V.A. Medical Center.
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"People like their doctors, they like having their primary care physician, but nobody likes their insurance," she said.
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Rural areas also face workforce shortages across all provider types including those who practice maternal and primary care.
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The primary-care startup One Medical is eyeing a 2020 initial public offering as well, according to CNBC.
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The goal is to eventually create a system of primary care for mental health for all of Britain.
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We're starting to get a better understanding of the financials of primary-care companies looking to go national.
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"The nexus of this was really to try to integrate substance use treatment in primary care," he added.
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The Task Force did not outline the types of systems that primary care doctors could create, but there is a range of possibilities, such as having mental health providers in the primary care practice or referring at-risk patients to therapists at other clinics or in the community, Krist said.
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And it wasn't designed to explain why the proportion of doctors and nurses working in primary care is changing.
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But often, there's not enough time for those in-depth conversations to take place in a primary care office.
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If you have any additional concerns, or have specific questions about your health, please contact your primary care provider.
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I print that return slip and then call my primary care doctor to get a prescription for oral steroids.
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"These are not typical antibiotics that someone might get if they go to their primary care doctor," Eiras said.
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If you are really worried about your heart and scary movies, talk to your cardiologist or primary care provider.
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A primary care provider who acts without respect and integrity — in a way you can feel — will fail you.
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Hospital system: Large hospital consortiums such as Kaiser Permanente or the Mayo Clinic Health System house primary care divisions.
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Keeping these strengths, while changing how primary care works, is the task NHS officials are now facing up to.
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The gap between male and female primary care physicians has widened to $51,000, or 25% — another all-time high.
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Anthony, an internist and primary care physician at Greater Pittsburgh Medical Associates-UPMC, was pronounced dead at the scene.
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The country does not have a functioning primary care system, the first line of defense for illness and injury.
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Primary care doctors, for example, have shifted away from running one-person practices to joining larger, multi-doctor offices.
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His team surveyed 340 adults attending primary care and dermatology clinics in Utah to gauge perceptions of black salve.
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In another study, when researchers surveyed women who visited a primary care facility, they found that 46% reported dyspareunia.
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"Obria is a comprehensive primary care clinic for women that is an alternative model to Planned Parenthood," Bravo says.
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The deal would create a comprehensive ambulatory care services platform, including primary care, urgent care and surgical care services.
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Through SteadyMD's concierge model, Bast functions as her telehealth patients' primary care physician for a monthly fee of $79.
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After undergoing surgery, Laird's primary care doctor wrote him a 90-pill prescription, plus a refill, for pain management.
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Once insured, Americans must make sure their health care providers, from primary care physicians to specialists, are in-network.
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Now with access to affordable primary care, HIP members are better able to stay healthy and avoid preventable hospitalizations.
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"Less than half of primary care physicians regularly assess for body mass index despite national screening recommendation," Sung says.
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The study involved 689 patients, ages 3 and older, who were in primary care for pharyngitis or sore throat.
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The average primary care visit costs $160, while the cost of a virtual visit is between $50 and $75.
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Her primary care physician sent blood and urine samples to the city and state health department laboratories for testing.
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Three days later, the man went to the same primary care physician who had diagnosed Zika in his partner.
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Doctors want guidance – especially the primary care physicians who are on the front lines treating patients with chronic pain.
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Instead, the company uses a team-based approach to healthcare that unites primary-care providers, specialists, and social workers.
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There are also no bills attached to seeing a physician or healthcare provider for primary care or clinic visits.
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Before CHIP's creation two decades ago, children in low-income working families routinely had no access to primary care.
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Doctor Mikhail (Mike) Varshavski is a board-certified primary care physician and popular YouTube influencer with 4 million subscribers.
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Nasal congestion is one of the most frequent symptoms that primary-care and specialist clinics hear from their patients.
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Some health systems have long emphasized primary care as a way to keep patients healthy at a lower cost.
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"If patients struggle to obtain primary care appointments, narrow network plans may have a rocky future," Mr. Haeder said.
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In addition, primary care providers were less confident in their ability to advise patients on symptoms and recommend treatments.
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One provides a monthly payment to a primary care provider for the improved coordination of care for Medicare beneficiaries.
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Instead, let's figure out ways to free-up primary care physicians from insurance-based coding, paperwork, payment and mandates.
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Driving the news: Amazon is looking to open primary care clinics at its Seattle headquarters, CNBC reported last week.
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Like Iora and ChenMed, Oak Street's doctors see fewer patients than traditional primary care, caring for around 500 patients.
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The country does not have a functioning primary care system, the first line of defense for illness and injury.
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To chat with a licensed primary care doctor, it's $19 per appointment, or $39 per year for unlimited chats.
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Some Obamacare proponents argued the law's plan to boost pay for primary care providers would alleviate the physician shortage.
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But the study found that 43 percent of U.S. doctors practice primary care medicine, about typical for the group.
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Primary-care doctors spend nearly two hours typing into the E.M.R. for every one hour of direct patient care.
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Studies show a stronger primary care system is associated with better population health and slower health care spending growth.
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It was companies, not insurers, that began experimenting with paying extra for intense primary care for the sickest patients.
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It's just that for our primary care, we can't be relying on the tender mercies of the corporate system.
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But we need to screen the entire population, and the only way to screen everyone is in primary care.
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C.H.C.s will improve health outcomes, remove primary care from insurance coverage and reduce the cost of health insurance premiums.
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If you develop any symptoms that are concerning, you should contact your primary-care provider — by phone — for guidance.
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Hospitals will be required to send electronic notifications to primary care providers when patients are admitted, discharged or transferred.
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They found that female primary care doctors simply spent more time listening to patients than did their male colleagues.
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Many primary care doctors have little to no training in how to counsel patients who need to lose weight.
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When Janet Halloran last saw her primary care physician, the doctor asked whether she had undergone her annual mammogram.
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The Netherlands, with its universal private insurance, still sets limits on cost-sharing and primary care visits are free.
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It provides urgent care, primary care, lab work, radiology and pediatric services, as well as dental and vision care.
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The law increased Medicaid payments to primary care providers to Medicare levels in 2013 and 2014 with federal funding.
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What governments can do Governments must incentivize primary care health systems to improve blood pressure and cholesterol control rates.
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The doctors replied that she should take him to his primary-care doctor in the next couple of days.
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We&aposre starting to get a better understanding of the financials of primary care companies looking to go national.
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CMS will likely outline a pilot program to test the direct primary care model sometime in the months ahead.
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Iora has long been a standard-bearer for better primary care, which it achieves by investing in customer service.
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So supplanting avoidable ER visits with more consistent primary care services is one workable approach for all patient populations.
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In less than a quarter of cases did the sites ask the name of the patient's primary care physician.
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It is delivered through primary care groups, hospitals, and at alternative settings such as tele-health networks and YMCAs.
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Apple – Apple is rolling out new primary care health-care clinics for its own employees, according to several sources.
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"And we've had some folks come into the clinics who don't have their own primary care physicians," he said.
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As primary care doctors become an "increasingly endangered species, it is very hard to practice like this," he said.
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In another study, primary care providers who diagnosed a patient's headaches as something other than migraine were usually wrong.
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Still, less than 10% of primary care providers could prescribe the drug by the end of the study period.
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The scope of practice reforms would enable qualified NPs and PAs to fill this gap in primary care provision.
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In effect we have been her primary doctors, although we didn't know it and didn't do much primary care.
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Since a good chunk of that is for primary care, it could be diverted to community health care services.
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They won't just shift the spending to facilities outside their own budgets, like primary care or skilled nursing facilities.
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Relatively small reductions in annual patient costs have been offset by high administrative costs in enhanced primary care programs.
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The primary-care startup One Medical could be the first unicorn on the list to go public in 2020.
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Mr. Velasquez, 24, never had a primary care physician, because his parents, immigrants from Nicaragua, couldn't afford the bills.
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O'Connor has been Biden's primary care physician since the 2020 Democratic presidential contender assumed the vice presidency in 2009.
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Also thankful for my wife, who insisted that I call my primary care doctor when I wasn't feeling well.
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New York City recently expanded its effort to connect uninsured residents with primary care doctors, regardless of immigration status.
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"We will oppose any efforts to lessen our constituents' access to basic preventative and primary care," the senators said.
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Many specialists and even primary care doctors no longer accept Medicaid patients because it's financially detrimental to do so.
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In March, the CDC released guidelines instructing primary care doctors to sharply curtail use of opioids for chronic pain.
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Overall, however, I managed the primary care of the service members - something nurse practitioners are uniquely qualified to do.
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It's also working on delivering better primary care for its own employees, through an independent group called AC Wellness.
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I spent the afternoon Varshavski, a board-certified primary-care physician and popular YouTube influencer with 4 million subscribers.
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Amazon last year met with Kaiser, Iora Health and other groups that deliver innovative primary care, CNBC previously reported.
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Under the conventional health insurance system, primary care physicians can be responsible for 6900,2628 to 28503,22019 patients per doctor.
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In January, the company brought in Martin Levine from Iora Health, a primary care group with clinics in Seattle.
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Others, like VillageMD, bring in existing primary care practices with existing patients, employing some doctors and partnering with others.
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In focusing on societal need, we should be providing relief for students who pursue primary care in underserved communities.
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Details: Methadone could be made more available in primary care settings, which would increase treatment capacity, the paper argues.
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The authors say better coordination between mental health specialists and primary care professionals could help to close screening gaps.
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Primary care startup One Medical on Friday filed paperwork with the US Securities and Exchange Commission to go public.
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The groom, also 31, is a primary care physician at the One Medical Group, a practice in New York.
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And if more primary care and community-based services could save 30 percent, we would have done that already.
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In addition, once approved, antidepressants require a large sales force to reach psychiatrists as well as primary care providers.
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"At first glance, the new Comprehensive Primary Plus payment model includes several advances over the current primary care model, particularly because it emphasizes improvements in care that are achievable by primary care physicians instead of cost reductions that are beyond their control," former AMA President Dr. Steven J. Stack said in a statement.
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As the country's largest primary-care network, community health centers (CHCs) provide a range of services —including mental health and emergency response services to those in crisis, primary care to uninsured, and medical homes for patients who need it most — to nearly 28503 million patients who would otherwise not be cared for.
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"Previous studies of nasal irrigation have shown benefit, but those studies were much smaller and involved more intensive coaching and support, not using brief pragmatic interventions in the kind of typical primary care settings we deal with," said lead author Dr. Paul Little, professor of primary care research at the University of Southampton.
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After completing hospital training in London and New York, Dr. Yearwood moved to southern Alabama, where he provided primary care.
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"My regular primary care physician and the surgeon that performed the operation were unaware that I had BDD," said Lindsey.
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Attendo's primary care, specialist care and dental clinics in Finland had sales of 234 million euros ($288 million) last year.
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There's good evidence that primary care providers and non-specialists can be as effective as psychiatrists using assertive dosing schedules.
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This unique position of daily directed guidance stands to redefine primary care, while helping people live happier, healthier and longer.
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A Pile Driver in the Head The patient went to see his new primary care doctor a few days later.
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As you begin to hone your search for a PCP, consider the various types of providers who practice primary care.
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"It's kind of a blessing," Dr. Rick Rysavy, Vee's primary care physician and close friend, told the St. Cloud Times.
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Dr. Kao's practice actually requires clearance from a patient's primary-care doctor before he'll perform any type of breast surgery.
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"What is it about homeopathy that patients value?" asks a German study published in 2013 in Quality in Primary Care.
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Ms Varnam is a "nurse practitioner", a nurse with an additional postgraduate degree who is trained to deliver primary care.
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For Ali Parsa, Babylon's chief executive, GP at Hand is a step towards making primary care more convenient and efficient.
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Now she's on track to receive her master's in June, when she will become a pediatric primary care nurse practitioner.
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But men who are primary care doctors and specialists and surgeons make $335,20163 on average, while women make about $224,000.
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By the numbers: One survey of nearly 2,000 primary care doctors in 5 states found that 45% had non-competes.
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Hyperallergic spoke with Andrew Goldstein, a public hospital primary care physician and health activist who was present at the protest.
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Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas and Mississippi all fall in the bottom 10 for the number of primary care physicians per capita.
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Primary care is "not flashy", says Dr Asaf Bitton of Ariadne Labs, a research group, so it gets less attention.
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This was reportedly signed and stamped by a primary care physician at Kansas University's MedWest Family Medicine Clinic, Sarita Singh.
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Just 15 percent of children in mentored households lacked primary care providers, compared with 39 percent of the other kids.
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The finding comes from the first rigorous study examining the impact of whole genome sequencing in healthy primary care patients.
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Designed like a spa, the facility offered primary care in new-age sounding treatment areas: body, mind, heart and spirit.
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No; the number of primary-care physicians in the United States lies squarely in the middle of the 11 countries.
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Medicaid recipients are more likely to visit emergency rooms rather than seeking more effect care with a primary care physician.
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He had just moved to the city and, though he had health insurance, did not have a primary care physician.
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"This is the first demonstration that psychological treatment can be delivered efficiently in routine primary care," Uher told Reuters Health.
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A big part of its primary-care model involves trying to reduce those barriers for their predominantly low-income patients.
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Among primary care doctors, men made an average of $2000,215 versus $203,000 for women, a difference of almost 18 percent.
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As a primary care physician, I've also noticed anecdotally that many of my younger patients have regrets about their tattoos.
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In areas of the country with more primary care doctors, outcomes and satisfaction improve while the cost of care drops.
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Health workers from villages were trained to give primary care and refer people like Ituze to clinics for serious illness.
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He's faced judgment from his primary care physicians and pharmacists about his high dose and whether or not it's appropriate.
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They rely on the myth that we all visit our primary care physicians, who then recommend which therapy to get.
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These are old diagnoses and my primary care physician has encouraged me to seek an updated diagnosis from a psychiatrist.
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Recently, her primary care physician decided she would only write one-time prescriptions for opioids for up to 2100 days.
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Visits with integrative medicine doctors typically last longer than traditional primary care, which tend to be limited to 15 minutes.
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On the other side of the country, Oregon's legislature established the Patient-Centered Primary Care Home (PCPCH) program in 22019.
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He introduced training programs for paramedics, in both primary care and emergency medicine, and for adult and pediatric nurse practitioners.
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The direct primary care model offers an alternative, known as "value based care," which incentivizes doctors for keeping patients healthy.
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Designed like a spa, the facility offered primary care in new-age sounding treatment areas: body, mind, heart, and spirit.
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The retailer is opening a health clinic in Dallas, Georgia, on Friday that has primary care, dentistry, and counseling services.
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We must implement transition-to-home programs and collaborate with families, social workers and primary care providers in the community.
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The retailer is opening a health clinic in Dallas, Georgia, on Friday that has primary care, dentistry, and counseling services.
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Alcohol is the most common problem encountered by primary care providers, yet the one they are least able to manage.
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These centers are a large source of comprehensive primary care for over 2202 million of the nation's most vulnerable people.
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The legislation encourages primary care providers to identify and address mental and behavioral health issues and encourages evidence based treatment.
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Doctors who choose to specialize can make much more money, millions more dollars over a career, than primary care physicians.
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And about 30 percent of doctors called were not primary care physicians, despite being listed as such in the directory.
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Some primary care doctor visits, for example, or preventive procedures like colonoscopies or a flu shot can be fully covered.
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Make no mistake about it; the high prevalence of benzodiazepine prescribing by primary care physicians is a public health problem.
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But malls will expand to primary care, specialty care and management of chronic diseases, such as diabetes, JLL analysts predicted.
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As a primary care doctor, I saw more and more kids of all ages and backgrounds glued to a screen.
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What are surgery centers and hospitals prepared to do, to cover what primary care might not be able to absorb?
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In fact, several readers told me that, upon requesting the vaccine from their primary care physicians, they were quickly dismissed.
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More than half of osteopathic physicians choose to go into primary care, which includes family medicine, pediatrics, and internal medicine.
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The study included nearly 800 Philadelphians who were patients with Medicaid at one of two Penn Medicine primary care practices.
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But she also said there were some limitations regarding the study, including that it only looked at primary care practices.
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There was nothing in my filing cabinet at home, and my primary care physician had no record of referring me.
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The company is hiring primary-care doctors who have experience caring for patients in those programs, according to job listings.
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Walmart wants its doctors to replace patients' current primary care providers, which will bring them into the clinics more routinely.
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Only a small cadre of primary care doctors regularly prescribe buprenorphine, a medication that helps suppress cravings and withdrawal symptoms.
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And it has an estimated 33,000 staff vacancies, with primary care and mental health posts proving especially hard to fill.
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Before this, there was a large abuse of the emergency system: people going for primary care and bullshit-type things.
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Mr. Robbins's mother is a licensed practical nurse in the primary care practice at Mercy Medical Center in East Longmeadow.
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In one study of the Mayo Clinic, a majority of primary care physicians said eConsults improved the quality of care.
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And they focus on primary care for any patient who walks in the door — not just those with good insurance.
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Hospital executives instead showed him a refugee primary care clinic, a neonatal intensive care unit and a cardiac surgery unit.
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It found that employers are increasingly focused on primary care, as prevention is a lot more cost-effective than treatment.
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Veterans will be expected to consult with their Veterans Affairs Department primary care doctor about the best course of treatment.
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She sent her parents home, knowing that her father had an appointment with his primary-care doctor the next day.
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This will require annual screenings for HBLs, either through school-based programs, or in collaboration with children's primary care providers.
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There are approximately 860,000 practicing physicians in the United States today, and too few — about a third — deliver primary care.
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There is strong evidence that long-term oversight by primary care doctors increases the quality of care and decreases costs.
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The New Health Care When you have a health problem, your first stop is probably to your primary care doctor.
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Dr. Edith Bracho-Sanchez is a primary care pediatrician and assistant professor of pediatrics at Columbia University Irving Medical Center.
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It will steer employees to those doctors for 8 specialties: primary care, cardiology, gastroenterology, endocrinology, obstetrics, oncology, orthopedics and pulmonology.
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He thinks startups and health systems will work to customize their primary care offerings to serve different populations of patients.
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The Preventive Services Task Force, a volunteer panel of national experts, makes evidence-based recommendations for the primary care community.
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When patients first experience prolonged dizziness, they may go to an emergency room or to see their primary care physician.
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Caldwell has also heard of primary care doctors refusing to care for patients after they find out they've had abortions.
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There is no shortage of patients, and hospitals should be focused on critical care, not monopolizing the primary care market.
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Patients often choose a primary care doctor close to home so that sick visits and regular checkups will be convenient.
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Many primary care physicians won't prescribe Metformin to people who don't have diabetes until they better understand whether it's safe.
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Dr. Edith Bracho-Sanchez is a primary care pediatrician and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Columbia University Irving Medical Center.
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But the leader of the nation's largest doctor's organization isn't sure retail is the best setting for true primary care.
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Kimber Lockhart, 33, is the chief technology officer at One Medical, a primary-care startup that went public on Friday.
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Primary care also isn't part of the global budget, and most doctors still charge a fee per service they perform.
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And our partner in Nevada is concerned about recruiting primary care providers if the National Health Service Corps is disassembled.
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Gutierrez-Parker's primary care doctor gave her a mini-cognitive assessment, asking her some question verbally and then on paper.
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Already, the company&aposs OptumCare business employs or works with more than 46,000 doctors, from surgeons to primary-care providers.
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One Medical sells memberships to individuals as well as to companies that offer its primary care service as a benefit.
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Zocdoc helps patients book doctors' appointments and check in for them — everything from primary care to dental to optometry appointments.
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So-called PPOs allow you to visit any in-network provider without getting a referral from your primary care physician.
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In these communities, which the federal government has designated as having insufficient primary care providers, the results would be devastating.
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Even with accountability, I have been told there is only one route to sustainability: merging mental health with primary care.
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Another limitation is that the study focused on primary care patients, and it's possible some people receive treatment from specialists.
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" In Ohio, he said, the states provide bonuses to primary care doctors that deliver "better care at a lower price.
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The primary care group will initially only serve Apple's employees in Santa Clara County, California, where its headquarters are located.
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The Cabarrus Rowan Community Health Center offers primary care services to patients, largely uninsured and unable to afford visits elsewhere.
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I'm very sympathetic to our primary care physicians who are under such huge production pressures and don't have much time.
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The typical visit to independent primary care doctors is spent on diagnosis and treatment with little time left for prevention.
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The clinics that receive Title X funds aren't always devoted to reproductive health specifically; many offer other primary care services.
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Primary care doctors often know the patient best and are most attuned to their values, preferences and needs, Wallner said, but how involved they should be during treatment depends upon the patient's clinical situation, including whether they have other medical conditions and the preferences of the patient, their oncologist and the primary care doctor.
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To the Editor: Re "Don't Visit Your Doctor in the Afternoon" (Op-Ed, May 15): While I am always grateful to see a spotlight on primary care, Dr. Jeffrey A. Linder's Op-Ed may unjustly scare patients into thinking that all primary care doctors are too fatigued to practice good medicine in the afternoon.
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She is a daughter of Dr. Randi M. Kodroff of Bethesda, Md., and Dr. Robert M. Silverbrook of Richboro, Pa. The bride's father is an internal medicine doctor at Robert Wood Johnson Medical Associates in Hamilton Township, N.J. Her mother is a practicing primary care doctor for Comprehensive Primary Care, a primary care medical practice in Chevy Chase, Md. The groom, 34, is a board certified obstetrician-gynecologist for Capital Women's Care in Rockville, Md. He graduated from Emory University, and received a medical degree from George Washington University.
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Patients are also staying longer — while the ultimate goal is to send someone back to a primary care doctor once stable.
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Being on my own and doing all the primary care for a preemie was a lot, but we got through it.
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One estimate finds that a primary care doctor juggles 550 independent thoughts related to clinical decision-making on a given day.
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There's also been a recent spate of hires into Apple's AC Wellness primary care group, which treats employees near its headquarters.
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The costs and requirements to become and remain a doctor, especially a primary care physicians, are too high in America, period.
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GENERAL practitioners, pillars of British communities and the first points of contact for primary care, are mostly a mild-mannered bunch.
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He is part of a project called Primary Care Home, one of several pilot schemes being introduced to promote greater integration.
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In its home market of Sweden it also says it accounts for more than 3% of all primary care doctor visits.
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Over that same period, the proportion of adults who didn't see primary care providers at all rose from 38% to 46%.
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And you wouldn't think to ask your primary care doctor if he could arrange for you to get a watercolor tattoo.
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If you're not exactly sure what you should be looking for, it's a good idea to ask your primary care physician.
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What they're saying: United wants more states to let nurse practitioners fill the void and take on more primary care duties.
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With one of the worst shortages of primary-care physicians in the country, expect a long wait to see the doctor.
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At the end of the day, primary care is really about the relationship between provider and patient—the setting is secondary.
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First they came for chain restaurants, then golf, and now millennials are turning their backs on another old institution: primary care.
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Younger patients are increasingly turning away from primary care doctors and toward clinics or urgent care centers, the Washington Post reports.
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Founded in 2014, Quartet's platform make it easier for primary care doctors and mental healthcare professionals, like therapists, to work together.
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"If you're a primary care prescriber and your patients are doing OK, maybe you're just not thinking about that," he said.
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Oncologists, primary care doctors, gynecologists, other health care providers, and patients should all be aware of the options for genetic testing.
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"Our network really covers everything from transplants down to primary care," said Dr. Lee Sacks, the chief medical officer for Advocate.
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Since its launch, it's expanded its core offerings into three other segments: primary care, chronic disease management and post-operative care.
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California is one of 16 states, along with D.C. and Puerto Rico, that licenses naturopaths to work as primary care providers.
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They can act as primary care providers for women and newborns and also assist a patient's partner with sexual health issues.
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Yet even well-established primary-care systems, such as England's, need to evolve radically to meet the changing nature of disease.
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The thing to keep in mind is that Hers isn't designed to replace your primary care physician or Ob/Gyn altogether.
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Why it matters: Primary care is a lot cheaper than, say, surgery for a condition that has gotten worse while untreated.
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She urges primary care physicians to speak candidly with their patients about their sexual histories, and the responsibility goes both ways.
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The second main difficulty is that many ordinary Chinese are disdainful of primary-care facilities, even those with fully qualified GPs.
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The mailed surveys included six questions about primary care provider access and awareness and three questions about doctors' involvement in treatment.
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A movement called direct primary care involves charging consumers a subscription fee for access to high-quality doctors, mostly in person.
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Wedbush analyst David Nierengarten, however, said that Pfizer was strong in primary care and pediatric treatments, the target markets for crisaborole.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Primary care doctors often use the wrong test to diagnose food allergies in children, new research shows.
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Indian patients, however, still face many barriers, including lack of access to affordable primary care and transparency about providers and drugs.
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The health integrator model offers a high-access, lower-cost network of non-clinical providers as an adjunct to primary care.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on Monday announced the regional participants in its largest initiative to reform primary care.
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It yields a pricey monthly premium but it's only a $15 co-pay for primary care, and $35 for a specialist.
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That's why community health centers play such a vital role helping more than 2900 million Americans access comprehensive, affordable primary care.
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"There is more work to be done to support the adoption of genetic medicine into primary care," Hauser said by email.
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As a practicing primary care internist for the past two decades, I can honestly say that my job is never dull.
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Many studies have shown that both the quality and cost of health care improves when patients receive high quality primary care.
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Studies show that advanced primary care reduces unnecessary specialist referrals, hospitalizations, and emergency room visits with better health outcomes for patients.
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Such policy strategies coupled with ongoing efforts to reform primary care delivery will result in more value for every dollar spent.
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He's frequently advocated for smaller companies selling drugs in primary care settings to be partnered with or sold to larger companies.
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Walmart has also tried to promote its in-store clinics as a lower cost point of primary care for its workers.
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Before the Ebola outbreak of 2014, nearly half of Liberians could not afford primary care and the deadly virus spread quickly.
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Together, these programs help ensure that Americans can count on seeing primary care physicians within a reasonable distance of their homes.
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They will be assigned a primary care doctor and have access to specialty care, prescription drugs, mental health services and hospitalization.
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Physician burnout reached an all-time high in 2019, after 79% of primary care doctors reported suffering from workplace-related stress.
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Under the new law, only doctors and pediatric primary care givers can determine if a child should receive a medical exemption.
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"Paladina is doing some remarkable things in primary care and there is an opportunity to further innovate and expand," said Makhzoumi.
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Not long ago, I spent a day following Lynden Lee as he scribed at a Massachusetts General Hospital primary-care practice.
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Community health centers are a large source of comprehensive primary care to around 26 million of the nation's most vulnerable people.
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Doing to healthcare what Walmart did to retailThe new centers will provide primary care, counseling, eye and hearing exams, and dentistry.
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A new study from InCrowd reveals that 79% of primary care physicians (PCPs) are burned out, compared with 57% of specialists.
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But Accountable Care Organizations that are led by primary care physicians not employed by hospitals did save money, Dr. McWilliams said.
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Merlo also pointed out that about 50% of the patients who visit MinuteClinics don't have a go-to primary care provider.
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Patients like Walters can go to the center for primary-care visits, in addition to getting X-rays and lab work.
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The news station reported that the woman's primary care doctor was suspended by Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System last week.
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However, the primary care division has experienced a decline in the number of patient visits at Medicross GP and dental clinics.
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K Health, the startup providing consumers with an AI-powered primary care platform, has raised $25 million in Series B funding.
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The clinic will offer primary care services as well as hearing tests, vision tests, and counseling sessions, according to its website.
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Many health plans charge a lower copay if you see a primary care physician (PCP) than if you see a specialist.
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That comes with a stipulation: After residency, the doctors have to work within Geisinger for four years as primary care providers.
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In return, the students commit to staying on at Geisinger for four years after residency to work in primary care roles.
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Their best advocate in many cases is their pediatrician or primary care physician, and their best hope is an early intervention.
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I was also prescribed Tamiflu by my primary care provider (thanks, telemedicine!) for the flu I did not test positive for.
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On March 13, Mason called the voicemail service of her primary care provider to request a Covid-19 test, she said.
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Primary care doctor Ernest Brown told Business Insider that people using steroidal anti-inflammatories should talk to their doctor before stopping.
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The proportion of new patient visits to primary care doctors increased from 22.6 percent in 2013 to 22.9 percent in 2014.
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He mentioned it to his primary-care physician a couple of weeks later when he went in for a routine exam.
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Many primary care doctors lack the necessary training, he said, and already operate with too few resources and too many patients.
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The New Old Age When Ann Vandervelde visited her primary care doctor in August, he had something new to show her.
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One survey of nearly 2,000 primary care physicians in five states found that roughly 45 percent were bound by such clauses.
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I work in primary care and see daily the results of our cultural priorities on weight leading to diabetes and hypertension.
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She left a voicemail with the county and contacted her insurance company, who told her to contact her primary care doctor.
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The sick nurse explained that the county had already approved her testing for the virus, as had her primary care doctor.
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The center offers primary care, labs, X-rays, EKG scans, counseling, dental, optical, hearing and community health education services for cheap.
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I advocate a 10 percent to 20 percent reduction in specialist reimbursement, with that money being allocated to primary care doctors.
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Every insurer pays primary care doctors the same flat rate, $2120 an hour, for care at the general practitioner co-ops.
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Primary care doctors who treat most chronic pain in this country are not able to provide non-drug approaches for pain.
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There are 250,000 primary care physicians in the U.S. and 12,000 neurologists and [they're confronting] what's been called a silver tsunami.
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Maybe we assumed the medical team upstairs would handle it; maybe that team expected a primary care doctor would do so.
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The premise is that the convenience will appeal to younger workers, who often don't have a relationship with primary care physicians.
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But Davidson contended that once people get Medicaid, they can get primary care doctors and stay out of the emergency room.
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One Medical was founded in 2007 by Tom Lee, a doctor who set out to create a modern primary care experience.
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Another showed an emergency room doctor mocking patients who sought treatment in the E.R. rather than from a primary care physician.
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One Medical is a primary care group with offices in San Francisco, New York, Seattle and other cities across the country.
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Based on these exams, none of the participants were diagnosed with age-related macular degeneration by primary care optometrists and ophthalmologists.
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The state reportedly only meets 40 percent of its need for primary care physicians, with underserved areas being hit the hardest.
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Health insurers are increasingly getting into the business of owning primary care practices as a way to better control healthcare costs.
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"Quite frankly, I don&apost believe that by changing ownership we&aposll be more effective at managing primary care," Boudreaux said.
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Verywell Health defines a frequent flyer as someone who regularly visits the emergency room instead of seeing their primary care doctor.
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Another, former Crossover doctor, Nitun Verma, has a distinctive focus on sleep, which is also uncommon for a primary care clinic.
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For instance, Utah-based Intermountain Healthcare and Pennsylvania-based Geisinger are taking similar approaches with some of their primary-care doctors.
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But in the community, retirees and their family members enrolled in Tricare Prime can expect co-pays ranging from $20 for an outpatient primary care appointment to $62 for an emergency room visit, while those who choose Tricare Select will pay between $30 for a network primary care appointment up to $118 for a network emergency room visit.
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Further, the mindshare that accompanies the Walmart brand could give Walmart Health the upper hand in the entrenched, $262 billion US primary care market: With the retail giant serving 140 million customers in person or online every week, Walmart has a robust base of customers that it could easily introduce to its new, low-cost primary care services.
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If competing primary care providers are unable to provide a comprehensive care experience in line with Oak Street's, we could see more seniors jump ship — and with senior citizens expected to account for 20% of the US population by 2030, we expect to see primary care startups continue to tap into this market as a pillar for growth.
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Whether it starts with enabling a private practice behavioral health clinician to co-locate within a partnering primary care facility, or with having the primary care facility itself directly offer the full suite of behavioral health services, we need to be comfortable that each milestone itself is a means of integration across a continuum of strategies and options.
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But studies show that many primary care providers either do not recommend the vaccine to parents and patients or do so halfheartedly.
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The firm offers medical tests for patients at primary-care clinics, eliminating the need to wait in long queues at oversubscribed hospitals.
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So it was weird when my primary care doctor put me on a cocktail of pain killers, nerve blockers, and cortisone shots.
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Seeing a primary care doctor after fracture was the strongest and most consistent predictor of osteoporosis assessment or treatment, the study found.
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In hospitals, patients don't get to choose their doctors, Jha noted, whereas they might pick a surgeon or a primary care doctor.
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But many primary care doctors simply refill the opioid prescription for another 30 days or longer, a phenomenon Barnett calls clinical inertia.
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Her mother, Anne Spell, took her to their primary care office in their hometown — where doctors said she had flu-like symptoms.
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Among the oldest people in the study, ages 247 to 23, the proportion without primary care visits climbed from 28% to 23%.
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By the numbers: Primary care isn't a very lucrative specialty, and that's part of the reason more doctors don't go into it.
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Only about 470 primary-care providers, or about 9 percent of them, appeared to devote their practices to visiting patients at home.
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By the numbers: In a Kaiser Family Foundation poll, 45% of 18- to 29-year-olds didn't have a primary care provider.
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Meanwhile, a study of primary care providers in New York showed that only 14 percent of them were comfortable interpreting these results.
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This leaves many primary care physicians who are willing to screen for postpartum depression stumped on where to refer patients for help.
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ECHO may have changed this, Langston said, by legitimizing the treatment of hepatitis C in primary care — essentially, boosting providers' self-efficacy.
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Primary care will be short between 21,100 and 55,200 doctors, while specialty care will face a shortage of between 24,800 and 65,800.
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Thailand in the 1980s froze capital investment in urban hospitals and reallocated the funding to primary-care centres, which cut mortality rates.
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More than 60 percent of women said their primary care quality was high, and their doctors were highly informed and highly communicative.
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