Fulcrum Family Health

10/30/2025

🔷 October Setpoint: Health Insights 🔷 - https://mailchi.mp/fulcrumfamilyhealth/setpoint-august24-17465890

13.8% of Maine’s population experiences food insecurity, including 1 in 5 children. Please join us in making sure no Mainer goes without food this year!

https://giving.gsfb.org/fundraiser/6796165

10/29/2025

Why we will not accept patients with Medicare Advantage.

Short answer: It is too much administrative work for our office.

Long answer: It is not health insurance provided directly from the government. It is a highly restrictive private health insurance masquerading as Medicare with a highly restrictive network that puts limitations on care and adds unnecessary hoops for practices to jump through.

Watch this John Oliver clip for an accurate and hilarious description of the problem.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ejoi9yfLVCc

Hopefully, if I get a chance to choose a Medicare plan, I will be choosing the following:
Traditional Medicare + Medigap Supplemental Insurance + Part D= 100% coverage

There are a lot of brokers that will offer help. Brokers are paid a commission and it might be higher for Medicare Advantage plans.

To get more unbiased information on Medicare plans in Maine, please use the following link.
https://www.shiphelp.org/ships/maine/

Find local Medicare help in Maine.

10/09/2025

Insurances are flagging and blocking payment to physicians that spend more time with patients. This is why we don't participate with most insurances. We refuse to give ineffective care and waste the time of the physician and patient.

Most of our visits are higher level care defined by time or amount of body systems discussed. Can you imagine participating in a system where we force people to take time out of their day to come in (because Telehealth isn't always allowed) to talk to them about one problem for 15 minutes? This is ineffective and wasteful.

Prior authorizations were once a narrow tool to contain costs. Downcoding could be next.

09/23/2025

🔷 September Setpoint: Health Insights 🔷 - https://mailchi.mp/fulcrumfamilyhealth/setpoint-august24-17464574
Perimenopause Awareness Month. Metabolic Reset Program.

09/22/2025

Independent, sound science shows no credible link between acetaminophen and autism.

09/22/2025

Join us in October for 1 month of Whole30. We are kicking off our twice yearly Metabolic Health Reset program with 1 month without artificial sweeteners, alcohol and other potential inflammatory foods. Research shows 30 days without artificial sweeteners can help kick a sugar addiction and jumpstart your health journey.

Are you looking for more guidance in your health journey? Join our 6 month Metabolic Reset by Friday, 9/26/25.
https://www.fulcrumhealthandwellness.com/metabolic-health

The Original Whole30 Program Rules are laid out in two phases: 30 days of elimination, and 10 days of reintroduction.

09/19/2025

6 Month Metabolic Reset Program Starting October 1

Discounted to Fulcrum Members. Open to all.

1 on 1 with Obesity Medicine Specialist and Health Coach as well as group support to help you reverse Metabolic Syndrome and lose fat through nutrition and movement.

Weight loss medications considered but not required.

Real, sustainable change that lasts.

Improved metabolic health leads to improved body composition and fat loss.  When patients say they want to "lose weight," what they really mean is they want to lose fat tissue.  We help you lose weight in a healthy way while maintaining and then building muscle to sustain the fat loss and keep you...

09/17/2025

Vaccines worked too well.
Parents aren’t afraid. Doctors aren’t prepared. This is very dangerous. This video gives some examples of complications that you should be afraid of.

9/11/25 - Its happening. California school-aged child died from rare measles complication after surviving measles as an infant.

https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2025-09-11/l-a-child-died-from-complication-of-measles-contracted-in-infancysee

09/12/2025

When the CDC doesn't recommend a vaccine, physicians have to send a prescription to the pharmacy. We spent approximately 3-5 hours sending scripts to the pharmacy this week for boosters that were previously routinely available for patients WITHOUT A PRESCRIPTION. Governor Janet Mills saved us with a standing order so that all Mainers can get the COVID booster if they wish and we can get back to caring for patients.

We should have COVID boosters for children in the coming weeks but we must wait for the upcoming ACIP meeting on September 18th.

https://www.maine.gov/governor/mills/news/governor-mills-direction-maine-cdc-issues-standing-order-expanding-access-covid-19-vaccine?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery

08/30/2025

🔷 August Setpoint: Health Insights 🔷 - https://mailchi.mp/fulcrumfamilyhealth/setpoint-august24-17463252
2026 Price Changes. Chemical vs. Mineral Sunscreen.

07/30/2025

Focus on chronic disease while still valuing the importance of vaccines. She is not a physician but she is a strong, evidence-based scientist. This is promising.

Susan Monarez is the first director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to require Senate confirmation. She's also the first director without a medical degree in more than 70 years.

07/20/2025

You are pointing the finger at the wrong person.

This is just false. The leaders in our government are not just misinformed. They are literally lying to you to create a divide between patient and physician.

Find yourself an independent physician. We’ll tell you the truth. Good medical care costs us money. Big Wellness is where “providers” make real money.

Experts said the health secretary’s remarks send a dangerous message: Don’t trust your physician.