Doctors who fled the health insurance system to offer transparent prices and more personal care got a boost from state lawmakers.
Published: Sunday, June 7th, 2020 @ 12:52 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services recently received a five-year, $10-million federal grant to improve the health and well-being of adults and children with challenging mental health issues who live in high need communities
Published: Monday, February 11th, 2019 @ 7:05 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Direct primary care (DPC) is the Netflix of primary care. In exchange for a small monthly fee, patient members of the DPC clinic have around-the-clock access to the services that their physician offers
Published: Tuesday, January 29th, 2019 @ 6:06 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Modern America has a craving for goods and services that are supplied instantaneously
Published: Sunday, November 18th, 2018 @ 1:09 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina faces a looming doctor shortage, particularly in primary care. But a report this week from the N.C. Academy of Family Physicians suggests some relief is on the way
Published: Wednesday, March 28th, 2018 @ 11:12 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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East Carolina University continues to lead the state in the percentage of medical graduates training in or practicing primary care five years after completing school, according to a report presented this month to the state university system
Published: Thursday, December 22nd, 2016 @ 6:45 pm
By: ECU News Services
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A new Direct Primary Care option helped Union County government save more than $1.28 million on health care claims in its first year, without sacrificing quality of care for county government employeesv
Published: Tuesday, December 13th, 2016 @ 11:21 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Mark Watson, executive director of human resources for Union County, will openly admit he is the ultimate skeptic
Published: Tuesday, August 2nd, 2016 @ 12:55 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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I had been to the emergency room enough growing up to know that we were in for at least three or four hours of waiting before we were seen
Published: Monday, May 16th, 2016 @ 7:46 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Tired of the average 7-minute doctor visit? Then consider making the switch to direct primary care (DPC). For an affordable monthly payment, patients are granted around-the-clock care, and doctors can spend more time with their patients. They can make house calls. They can dispense prescription...
Published: Thursday, April 21st, 2016 @ 5:59 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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I’ve written before how direct primary care networks help private, self-insured employers like Amazon and Expedia save big on health care claims
Published: Wednesday, March 16th, 2016 @ 3:12 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina policymakers should take steps to make the state even friendlier to direct primary care
Published: Tuesday, March 8th, 2016 @ 11:44 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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We've talked for decades about healthcare reform but the only significant attempt to change the skyrocketing costs of health insurance, escalating pharmaceutical costs and deepening dissatisfaction has been Obamacare.
Published: Wednesday, March 2nd, 2016 @ 11:22 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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Medical providers will tell you that about 75 percent of health care can be provided in a primary care setting
Published: Friday, January 8th, 2016 @ 10:16 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Medical providers will tell you that about 75 percent of health care can be provided in a primary care setting. Yet rising health insurance premiums and narrower networks are making it a burden for patients to access basic health care.
Published: Thursday, January 7th, 2016 @ 4:48 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A growing health care alternative in North Carolina that shuns insurance for services provided by physicians at a set price could be incorporated into the state's insurance program for government employees, along with Medicaid
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 8:17 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Obamacare's third annual enrollment period for health insurance is officially underway. Americans who do not have access to employer-sponsored health insurance, are self-employed, or have been dumped into the individual marketplace by their employers have the opportunity to sign up or renew their...
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 8:59 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The excessive amount of government intervention that has been entrenched in our nation's health care system is curiously pushing medical providers to channel this negative energy into positive solutions - ones in which physicians are either scaling back or cutting off their relationships...
Published: Monday, October 26th, 2015 @ 8:45 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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After 1,313 days as students in the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, members of the Class of 2015 found out March 20 where they will be training as resident physicians later this year.
Published: Monday, March 23rd, 2015 @ 11:43 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Five years after they graduated, 35 of the 70 members of the Brody School of Medicine's Class of 2008 were practicing primary care medicine. Among the four medical schools in North Carolina, that's the best rate of producing the kind of doctors the state needs most, according to an annual report...
Published: Monday, November 10th, 2014 @ 6:08 pm
By: ECU News Services
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A massive government overhaul of our health care delivery system continues to unfold, and the nation is embarking upon uncharted territory. Providers are fed up with reduced payments, spending more time wading through convoluted third-party paperwork, and not being reimbursed in a timely fashion...
Published: Wednesday, October 29th, 2014 @ 9:17 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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This week marks the first annual Healthcare Solutions Week - where public policy think tanks nationwide are raising awareness about how market-based principles can reduce health care costs while increasing quality and accessibility of care.
Published: Monday, October 20th, 2014 @ 10:29 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Match Day is another milestone for East Carolina University medical student Alan Burke, who's had a few of them. The cancer survivor will graduate from the Brody School of Medicine in a few weeks, and then he will be commissioned into the military and begin a residency in psychiatric medicine at...
Published: Wednesday, March 26th, 2014 @ 10:41 am
By: ECU News Services
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