Prioritize primary care this open enrollment season

Physician
November 23, 2017

This open enrollment season, patients will be considering their health care coverage for the coming year. To ensure they are fully utilizing their primary care benefits and building relationships with health care teams that will keep them healthy, we need to encourage them to connect with a primary care practice or medical home.

A medical home is a place where a patient can seek treatment from primary care physicians and other …

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Prioritize primary care this open enrollment season

Primary care makes a difference for patients and the nation

Policy
October 2, 2017

This week is National Primary Care Week, an opportunity to engage medical students and healthcare stakeholders in a national discussion around the tremendous role that primary care plays in our health care system.

With so much debate about the high price of health care in the United States, too often one of the most effective methods of controlling costs is overlooked: primary care. A wealth of research continues to show that …

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Primary care makes a difference for patients and the nation

How primary care physicians can work with patients to change behavior

Physician
May 18, 2016

The behavioral aspects of poor health are even more important than we may have thought.  That’s according to a new study finding adults who engage in even one unhealthy behavior double their risk for fair-to-poor health. And the risk increases meaningfully with each added unhealthy behavior.

Spotlight: Impact of Unhealthy Behaviors, a publication from United Health Foundation’s America’s Health Rankings® released in partnership with Family Medicine for …

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How primary care physicians can work with patients to change behavior