Medical Topics from Dr. Patrick O’Connell
Check Your Blood Pressure the Right Way!
Check Your Blood Pressure the Right Way! Greetings to all of you members of Sentinel Primary Care. We're going to get into the medical content in just a moment, but for this members video I actually wanted to open with a story. As you probably know, a portion of our work here is charitable care. I give away a portion of my care for folks who don't have insurance. A few [...]
The New Shingles Vaccine!
The New Shingles Vaccine! There's a new shingles vaccine coming to market, and it looks to be awesome with just a little bit of awful. Stick around and I'll tell you more. What is the New Shingles Vaccine? So late in October, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, the ACIP, which is part of the CDC, gave its recommendation to the new shingles vaccine which will be sold under the name [...]
5. Open Enrollment Season Discount!
Money-Saving Ideas: Open Enrollment Season Discount! - Strategy #5/5 The fifth idea in this money saving series is a fun one for me as a small business operator. As I talked about in a couple of the other videos, it's open enrollment season. In 2017's open enrollment season I offered an open enrollment season discount! Essentially, everybody who came to establish care at Sentinel Primary Care by the end of November [...]
4. Money-Saving with Health Care-Sharing Ministries
4. Money-Saving Ideas: Health Care-Sharing Ministries Health Care-Sharing Ministries The fourth money saving strategy in this series of five ways to save money with your health expenses and to integrate that with Sentinel Primary Care is a group of entities that are collectively referred to as health care-sharing ministries. These are not-for-profit Christian organizations that help to coordinate the members to support each other financially in their health expenses. It's a [...]
3. Money-Saving Ideas: Lab Discounts
Money-Saving Ideas: Lab Discounts - Strategy #3/5 Idea number three for saving money with Sentinel Primary Care has to do with lab discounts. Normally, when you get your blood drawn at your doctor's office or you go to the lab to have the blood drawn, the laboratory processes the blood and they bill the insurance for the laboratory study and for processing the lab. We can do that as well. We [...]