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Private Equity Gobbling Up Hospices plus Hospice and Dementia: Melissa Aldridge, Krista Harrison, & Lauren Hunt

GeriPal

That trajectory was in increase from 2000 to say, 2010. And then secondly, around some of our quality measures, there’s been differences found in multiple papers by many teams around hospice disenrollment, higher rates of hospice disenrollment in for-profit hospices, and higher rates of healthcare utilization.

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Palliative care for cancer: Podcast with Jennifer Temel and Areej El-Jawahri

GeriPal

Jennifer: It was 2010. Eric: 2010. Jennifer: I think it’s such a complicated question. Most people aren’t coming to UCSF or MGH for their healthcare. Eric: I’m going to go back in time a little bit. What year did your New England journal article come out, Jennifer? But we have to.

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For family medicine workforce, HHS reorganization plan receives a failing grade

Common Sense Family Doctor

While I'm grateful for subspecialists who alleviate pain, rescue patients who are unable to breathe on their own, manage complicated fractures, and replace worn-out hips and knees, the gap between the number of family doctors we need and the number we have keeps getting wider. growth in the U.S.

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To Cut Medicaid, the GOP’s Following a Path Often Used To Expand Health Care

Physician's Weekly

For complicated political reasons, reconciliation bills cannot touch Social Security, the last prong in the entitlement program trifecta.) In the end, the two chambers used a separate reconciliation measure, the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 , to negotiate a compromise that included the ACA.