New Legislation Authorizes Direct Primary Care in Missouri

New Legislation Authorizes Direct Primary Care in Missouri

New legislation is empowering patients in Missouri by giving them more freedom to choose the healthcare plan that best fits their specific needs. House Bill 769 ultimately approved the Direct Primary Care model for healthcare delivery in Missouri.

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Doctors in Wyoming Advocate the Direct Primary Care Model

Doctors in Wyoming Advocate the Direct Primary Care Model

Doctors at the Wyoming Legislature’s Joint Labor, Health and Social Services Interim Committee meeting, testified as advocates for the direct primary care model in making family practices more viable for doctors and more accessible to patients. Doctors Mike Tracy and Bob Chandler, both of 307Health, and medical student Galen Mills told them about the new model and why it is as a viable means of increasing accessibility and reducing costs.

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More Primary Care Doctors in New Orleans Post-Katrina

More Primary Care Doctors in New Orleans Post-Katrina

Hurricane Katrina destroyed many health facilities when it hit in 2005. Among these institutions was Charity Hospital, a public facility that was forced to close. Many people relied on Charity Hospital’s emergency room if they did not have health insurance but had ongoing chronic problems. There was limited primary care or preventive medicine for patients, and patients had to wait months to schedule an appointment.

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Personal Training Will Soon be a Heavily Regulated Profession

Personal Training Will Soon be a Heavily Regulated Profession

After decades of thriving in a mostly unregulated space, personal trainers are being subjected to new scrutiny and regulations. The Board of Physical Therapy in D.C. was tasked with writing the new regulations and plans to release its rules next month, seek public comment and then publish them as law. According to the law's stipulations, no personal trainer is operating legally in D.C. since the deadline to register has passed. 

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