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As healthcare providers, we want to help keep our patients educated about their own well-being. On our news page here, we’ll share what’s new at Sartell Family Medicine, but also relevant links to news and healthcare articles from credible sources around the web.
Medical Expenses Could Cause You Financial Ruin — But Few Prepare For Them
MarketWatch 2/12/19 Health can destroy wealth. More than two in three bankruptcies are caused by medical problems, either from bills, income loss due to illness, or both, according to new data in the American Journal of Public Health from more than 900 Americans who...
Nearly half of Americans have heart disease, study says
USA Today 2/1/19 Nearly half of U.S. adults deal with some form of cardiovascular disease, said a new study, driven largely by changes in guidelines for classifying high blood pressure. According to the study from the American Heart Association, 121.5 million...
Welcome Week – Jan 28th to Feb 1st 2019
Sartell Family Medicine invites the public to: WELCOME WEEK January 28th to February 1st, 2019! $25 Appointments! Meet the Providers! Check out the Clinic! To schedule an appointment, call the clinic at: (320) 566 - 2151 Fine Print: Appointments are only...
15 minutes aren’t enough for a primary care visit
DrizzleMD (posted to KevinMD.com) 1/9/18 Have you bought a new memory foam mattress recently? Many come vacuumed in shrink bags. Once air gets in the bag, the mattress expands to its normal size. It is fascinating to watch how they expand. It is not so fascinating to...
Hospitals required to post all prices online beginning January 1
Associated Press / December 21, 2018 Medicare will require hospitals to post their standard prices online and make electronic medical records more readily available to patients, officials said Tuesday. The program is also starting a comprehensive review of how it will...
Kaiser study finds employee health insurance deductibles rise 4.5 percent
CNBC / October 3, 2018 While wages for many may finally be edging higher, health costs are growing a whole lot faster. As 2019 open enrollment season begins, most workers who have employer health plans will see moderate increases in premiums and deductibles, but it...
Primary care does what Google can’t
A Country Doctor Writes Non-clinicians skip over some of the most necessary underpinnings of doctoring and speak too much about housekeeping issues: blood pressure targets, aspirin use, mass screenings, immunization rates and so on. People without medical degrees...
Anthem among health insurers refusing to pay ER bills, doctors say
On Aug., 1, 2017, Brittany Cloyd of Frankfort, Kentucky, said she experienced pain "worse than childbirth." Her mother -- who had been to nursing school -- drove her to the nearest emergency room. Brittany thought her appendix had burst, but tests at the ER found she...
Physician burnout in small practices is dramatically lower than national average
NYU LANGONE HEALTH / NYU SCHOOL OF MEDICINE 7/9/18 Physicians who work in small, independent primary care practices--also known as SIPs--report dramatically lower levels of burnout than the national average (13.5 percent versus 54.4 percent), according to a study led...
A relentless focus on primary care: probably the single biggest thing we can do in healthcare
Suneel Dhand 6/19/18 There are so many theories out there about what we should or shouldn’t be doing with our complex and fragmented healthcare system. We are facing a perfect storm of factors: an ageing population, a huge increase in chronic disease, new and...
Study suggests seeing the same doctor ‘is a matter of life and death’
Newsweek 6/28/18 Seeing the same doctor is a “matter of life and death” for patients, according to the authors of a new study. In what is believed to be the first systematic review of how a patient seeing the same doctor over time may affect their risk of dying,...
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