Brigham Buhler
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How do we help you live a longer, healthier life? We stop the progression of chronic disease. The diabetes you develop in your 40s started in your 30s. The depression you have in your 50s started in your 40s. Like all of these things are cascade effects. We can prevent by getting proactive and predictive.
How do we help you live a longer, healthier life? We stop the progression of chronic disease. The diabetes you develop in your 40s started in your 30s. The depression you have in your 50s started in your 40s. Like all of these things are cascade effects. We can prevent by getting proactive and predictive.
How do we help you live a longer, healthier life? We stop the progression of chronic disease. The diabetes you develop in your 40s started in your 30s. The depression you have in your 50s started in your 40s. Like all of these things are cascade effects. We can prevent by getting proactive and predictive.
Like I said earlier, it's crazy that the age demographic of 13 to 19 right now in America, over 30% of kids are pre-diabetes. We can prevent that.
Like I said earlier, it's crazy that the age demographic of 13 to 19 right now in America, over 30% of kids are pre-diabetes. We can prevent that.
Like I said earlier, it's crazy that the age demographic of 13 to 19 right now in America, over 30% of kids are pre-diabetes. We can prevent that.
The time to treat cancer is before you get cancer. If we can catch cancer at stage one, you have a 99% success rate. If we can stop you from progressing from pre-diabetes to diabetes, we drive down the risk of all chronic disease, all cause mortality, metabolic disease, cancer, every major killer of man.
The time to treat cancer is before you get cancer. If we can catch cancer at stage one, you have a 99% success rate. If we can stop you from progressing from pre-diabetes to diabetes, we drive down the risk of all chronic disease, all cause mortality, metabolic disease, cancer, every major killer of man.
The time to treat cancer is before you get cancer. If we can catch cancer at stage one, you have a 99% success rate. If we can stop you from progressing from pre-diabetes to diabetes, we drive down the risk of all chronic disease, all cause mortality, metabolic disease, cancer, every major killer of man.
It's a cascade effect.
It's a cascade effect.
It's a cascade effect.
And that's where I say it is crucial to get proactive and predictive. And I would go out and educate clinicians and OBs and primary cares on the importance of comprehensive blood work. The reason I want to tell you this is then all my doctors in Texas said, I believe you. I think you're right. I think we need to pull comprehensive blood panels. So many people go, well, I have a doctor.
And that's where I say it is crucial to get proactive and predictive. And I would go out and educate clinicians and OBs and primary cares on the importance of comprehensive blood work. The reason I want to tell you this is then all my doctors in Texas said, I believe you. I think you're right. I think we need to pull comprehensive blood panels. So many people go, well, I have a doctor.
And that's where I say it is crucial to get proactive and predictive. And I would go out and educate clinicians and OBs and primary cares on the importance of comprehensive blood work. The reason I want to tell you this is then all my doctors in Texas said, I believe you. I think you're right. I think we need to pull comprehensive blood panels. So many people go, well, I have a doctor.
They pull a blood panel. They don't. They are pulling a minimal lipid panel. Why? Because as soon as my clinician started pulling comprehensive panels, guess who got letters? The insurance companies literally will send threatening letters to your clinician, your OB, your primary care, and they will tell them, I don't like that you're pulling comprehensive blood work on Alex. Why?
They pull a blood panel. They don't. They are pulling a minimal lipid panel. Why? Because as soon as my clinician started pulling comprehensive panels, guess who got letters? The insurance companies literally will send threatening letters to your clinician, your OB, your primary care, and they will tell them, I don't like that you're pulling comprehensive blood work on Alex. Why?
They pull a blood panel. They don't. They are pulling a minimal lipid panel. Why? Because as soon as my clinician started pulling comprehensive panels, guess who got letters? The insurance companies literally will send threatening letters to your clinician, your OB, your primary care, and they will tell them, I don't like that you're pulling comprehensive blood work on Alex. Why?
We don't think you should be doing this. We don't think you have medical necessity. If you continue to pull comprehensive blood work, we will consider revoking your contract. This happened to thousands of doctors in Texas. They had to call me and go, hey, Brigham, I believe in what we're doing, but I'm not going to do this.
We don't think you should be doing this. We don't think you have medical necessity. If you continue to pull comprehensive blood work, we will consider revoking your contract. This happened to thousands of doctors in Texas. They had to call me and go, hey, Brigham, I believe in what we're doing, but I'm not going to do this.