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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

GeriPal

And we found out in our work that something like 70 or 80% of patients with dementia who have surgery come from the community, who are coming from home. That provision was taken out of Obamacare back in 2007, 2008. I mean, financially, the bulk of the American healthcare system is a fee-for-service system. Alex: Mm-hmm.

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Telemedicine in a Post-Pandemic World: Joe Rotella, Brooke Calton, Carly Zapata

GeriPal

And the Ryan Haight Act I think was passed in 2008, which was in response to a young person who died of an opioid overdose. And they were prescribed those opioids from an online prescriber, that was not from a palliative care practice by the way, but some online prescriber of opioids.