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šŸ’• PREVENTION SAVES LIVES ā€” AND IT DOESNā€™T HAVE TO BREAK THE BANK! ā¤ļø Today, I practiced what I preach and had two important screenings at SimonMed Imaging! šŸŽ€ Mammogram ā€“ Just $99! In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, this screening can detect breast cancer before symptoms appear, when treatment is often most effective. ā¤ļø Cardiac Calcium Score ā€“ Just $100 Cash Pay! A quick CT scan that detects calcium buildup in your heartā€™s arteries and helps assess your risk of heart disease. šŸ’„ Hereā€™s what I want everyone to understand: INSURANCE IS NOT HEALTHCARE! Insurance is a financial product. Your PHYSICIAN is your healthcare advocate! You shouldnā€™t have to fight insurance companies or navigate a complicated system just to take care of your health. šŸ‘©ā€āš•ļø At Vegas Direct Primary Care, we ALWAYS look for ways to make healthcare accessible, affordable, and personalized. Whether itā€™s finding discounted imaging, affordable labs, or medications, we advocate for our patientsā€”not insurance companies! Not every screening is appropriate for everyone, but every patient deserves a physician who puts their health FIRST. ā¤ļø Healthcare, NOT sick care. Patients BEFORE profits. Physicians advocating for YOU! #VegasDirectPrimaryCare #PhysicianLedCare #HealthcareNotSickCare #BreastCancerAwareness #HeartHealth DirectPrimaryCare PreventionSavesLives
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šŸ’Š Why are we paying so much for medications? For nearly 7 years, Iā€™ve been dispensing many medications directly to my patientsā€”and my prices have barely changed. By ordering directly from manufacturers and cutting out unnecessary middlemen, some medications can cost just a fraction of typical retail prices, potentially saving patients hundreds or even thousands of dollars. šŸ’° Ask your physician: Can you dispense medications directly or help me find a lower-cost cash option? Sometimes better healthcare really can cost less. ā¤ļø #vegasdirectprimarycare #DirectPrimaryCare #DPC #affordablehealthcare
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People arenā€™t failing to prioritize their health. Theyā€™re being forced to ration it. Today, a woman cried to me because after paying hundreds of dollars every month for health insurance, she still couldnā€™t afford the copay to see a doctor. Moments like this are part of why cash-pay medicine seemed so attractive to meā€”and why I opened a cash-pay practice. I wanted patients to know the price before saying yes. I wanted 60 minutes to listen instead of rushing through a visit. I wanted fewer surprise bills and fewer decisions shaped by what insurance would reimburse. But here is the uncomfortable truth: cash pay is not affordable for everyone either. Transparency matters. Time matters. Freedom from insurance barriers matters. But none of those automatically creates access. There is no perfect payment model inside a system where even insured people cannot afford care. I still believe patients deserve transparent pricing and enough time with their physician. I also believe no one should pay hundreds every month for insuranceā€”and then cry because they cannot afford to use it. What would make healthcare feel truly accessible to you? #healthcare #healthinsurance #healthcareaccess #patientadvocacy #cashpaymedicine
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I keep saying Iā€™m staying out of politics but itā€™s getting impossible. Healthcare and politics are intertwined when it comes to system change. Iā€™ve got a lot of workarounds for the current system but they are just that- workarounds. We need policy change to really move the needle. Stitch with @cloverdpc #americanhealthcare #healthadvocate #healthinsurance #patientadvocacy
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A love letter to the original preventative medicine doctors. Long before ā€œlongevityā€ and ā€œoptimizationā€ became wellness buzzwords, primary care physicians were already preaching the real foundations: exercise, nutrition, sleep, and stress reduction. But hereā€™s the heartbreak ā€” in insurance-based practices, the average visit is just 15 minutes, often covering 6 separate health concerns. Thatā€™s about ONE minute per problem. And research shows a PCP would need 27 hours in a day to deliver all the guideline-recommended care for a typical panel. This was never a failure of your physicianā€™s expertise. It was a failure of time. So when you feel rushed and unheard, the answer isnā€™t trading down to a less-qualified, non-medical ā€œwellnessā€ provider. The answer is more time with a real physician. In my new piece, I make the case for Direct Primary Care ā€” a model that gives patients their doctor back: longer visits, direct access, and care built on relationship instead of a stopwatch. The data backs it up ā€” twice the face time, fewer ER visits, and 99% patient satisfaction in one program. To every primary care doctor: you were never the problem. Patients donā€™t need less of you. They need more. šŸ’› Please tag a Primary Care Physician that deserves some love ā¤ļø Read the full article ā€” link in bio. Comment ā€œsubstackā€ and I will DM you the link. #PrimaryCare #PreventativeMedicine #DirectPrimaryCare #LongevityMedicine #LifestyleMedicine
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āœØ INSTAGRAM TAKEOVER ALERT āœØ Meet Dr. Bisaccia! From ER shifts to running her own practiceā€”sheā€™s done it all šŸ’« Donā€™t miss her Instagram takeover on March 19th! Look for Dr. B in todayā€™s stories! šŸ‘€ Tune in & get inspired!
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Not today, Jr.
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Health Insurance is a scam. šŸ“¼: @cloverdpc
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Primary care doctors arenā€™t just tired, writes Nikitha Paluri, MD. Theyā€™re cosmically exhausted. Not the ā€œI need a napā€ tired. The ā€œmy soul is held together by caffeine, graham crackers from the break room, and sheer stubbornnessā€ tired. We burn out from explaining repeatedly to an insurance portal, with the personality of a brick wall, that: ā€¢ Yes, the patient is still diabetic. ā€¢ No, their asthma didnā€™t magically heal because itā€™s a Tuesday. ā€¢ Yes, the medication you approved last month is still necessary this month. Read todayā€™s article in our magazine, and donā€™t forget to share it. Write ā€œarticle infoā€ below, and weā€™ll send the link to our mag by DM (and donā€™t leave without subscribing!) Are primary care physicians todayā€™s human search engines? Tell us below. You never know when your quote'll make it in!
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Healthcare eating habits are a category all their own, a strange blend of speed, improvisation, low-grade guilt, and whatever can be consumed in under two minutes without staining scrubs. Anyone outside the profession imagines clinicians eating balanced meals, like salads, grilled chicken, perhaps a smoothie left over from the wellness lunch someone posted about on Instagram. What they donā€™t see is the cold coffee hidden behind a monitor, the crushed protein bar eaten at 4 p.m. as an emergency ā€œlunch,ā€ or the vending-machine dinner that gets selected not because itā€™s good, but because it doesnā€™t require microwaving. ā€œMeal prep,ā€ in the traditional sense, exists only in fantasy. In healthcare, the only real prep is mental: preparing for the possibility that a shift might leave you with exactly zero opportunities to eat at normal times. Included in todayā€™s article is input from: @cloverdpc, @jillgrimesmd , @matchthedoc , and the reel of @dr.tylergrigor - congrats to all, and keep great content coming! To read the entire article, check out our magazine. Or type ā€œarticle infoā€ below and weā€™ll send it to you by DM.
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Breastmilk is Awesome, Fed babies are awesome, Happy less-stressed parents are awesome.
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Birth dšŸ’‰$ā‚¬s WORK šŸ‘‡šŸ¼šŸ‘‡šŸ¼šŸ‘‡šŸ¼šŸ‘‡šŸ¼ We already tried a risk based approach 30 years ago and it FAILED. TLDW/R. The senator from LA, a hepatologist!!!, was the deciding vote that put the current leadership in charge of our national ā€œhealthā€ department. Sec. Bobby gutted the ACIP committee. Experts out. Lawyers and known p$uā‚¬do$ciā‚¬ncā‚¬ peddlers and anti $hm@xā‚¬r$ deciding how WE protect our infant and children. Marching orders: Easiest way to help. Share this. Tag your Senators. Save it. Send it to friends and family. Drop a šŸ”„ šŸ«” in the comments so this does NOT unalive quietly. Louisiana friends, quick call to his office. ā˜Žļø 202 224 5824 @bill_cassidy ā€œHi, I am calling because the senatorā€™s vote enabled the leadership that just removed newborn protection at birth, and I am asking him to support doing EVERYTHING he can to restore it immediately.ā€ EVERYONE else, you still MATTER here. Call your state senators. Pressure travels upward and inward. Enough noise in their offices puts direct heat on Sen. Billy boy. Fastest way to do it is through 5 Calls. Free. Under 30 seconds. It gives you the numbers and a script. Go to 5calls.org, enter your ZIP code, pick public health or agency oversight, and call. Turn up the heat. ****Ask for transparent reinstatement of experts and safeguards. Demand public hearings. Ask directly, ā€œWill you support restoring expert review before any public health recommendation that affects babies and families?ā€**** Silence is the outcome they are counting on. The other side is anything but silent. Birth dšŸ’‰$ā‚¬ ā€˜s WORK Why? Because it fills the gaps in a for profit health system that misses people every single day. We do not have universal healthcare. You cannot make a risk based assessment when the risk is invisible. Of the 1 to 2 million infected people, about 85 percent do NOT know they are infected. It is a silent disease. *If you want a deeper breakdown, head to my profile and the Highlight called Birth dšŸ’‰$ā‚¬ where I clear up the most common misconceptions.*
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