#PCPs

It looks as if MA has agreed to sell under the agreement that PCP doesn’t have to pay it all upfront. Docs suggest this is a deferred consideration (i.e. MA

Farzad Mostashari

1/ We are here on a Congressional Briefing with 4 independent primary care docs, I will highlight some notable quoteshttps://twitter.com/PEPC_DC/status/1266386021303947271 2/ Dr Sumana Reddy describes how community PCPs knowledge of

Under the radar, @BCBSMA launched an important rescue package this week for primary care practices that would replace fee-for-service with flat payments.https://healthpayerintelligence.com/news/payer-fuses-value-based-care-support-payments-

Londyn Robinson (rheuminate)

Today’s shoutout goes to my 94 y/o grandma’s RURAL fam med doc who had telehealth visit where they asked her to show them how accessible her home is. They checked:

Farzad Mostashari

1/ This thread will be alarming, I'm sorry. The American Academy of Family Practice CEO is crying out about the financial crisis threatening frontline primary care practices, but no one

John Bloch MD MPH

I am working on a teaching case for medical students and I have a genuine question: why do we present “mystery cases” in the order of the H&P even though

Vaclav Kirsner, PhD

The fallacy of ovulation calculators, calendars and circulating-hormone detectors https://v.gd/MYSi7Q Testing for hormones in circulation is not good enough for #fertilityawareness #FABMs because #ovulation is merely assumed NOT DETEC

Tonight I was supposed to participate in a "Careers in Medicine" panel telling medical students why rheumatology is the absolute best. That panel was cancelled due to COVID-19, so instead

PPP - Putting Patients First

When you don’t know what you don’t know, patients suffer. Threads: Why Primary Care Physicians Are Critical. PCPs in states where NP’s practice independently share their stories. We begin in

Indu Partha, MD FACP

#PCPOnTheWards (thread). Lessons I hope I left behind: #MedTwitterFocus on the big picture. What needs to be done to help our pt get home successfully?Why did they have to be

Chad Michael Mudface

WARNING: I'm furious, and what follows is likely to reflect that. I unfortunately use @elicahealth via @DHCS_CA . Their previous psychiatry provider prescribed me a schedule II medication. However, like

In the context of #COVID19, never has advance care planning (#ACP) felt so necessary and relevant to more people; yet, so elusive in how to actually do #ACP at scale.

Why chronically ill people should give each other medical advice: I know that the topic of non-drs giving each other medical advice is a thing people are understandably sensitive abt,

Maximilian Cruz

maxabillioncruz

1/ Alright guys, w/yet another new clinical year approaching, a new and updated thread on Med-Peds (MP), to help provide some clarity on what MP is/isn't, esp for rising M4s

Farzad Mostashari

1/ COVID19 has put primary care in jeopardyWorking under fear of getting sick and bringing it home to families, docs and nurses are getting burned outVisit volumes are down and

Southwest Virginia 🌄 for Pete (for Joe) 🐝➡️🥁

Now seems like a good to talk about this...My husband & I have had COVID19.But we don't count in the official numbers. And I'm willing to bet at least 75%