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The Impact of Integrated Care on Healthcare Utilization and Costs: Evidence from the Kansas Health Homes Medicaid Program [Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Individuals with complex conditions—those with multiple physical, mental, or behavioral health conditions--require numerous health and social services that are not effectively co-delivered by the current healthcare system. Additionally, we found a statistically significant reduction in PMPM Kansas Medicaid costs.

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Risking It All For a New Business Model at Family Physicians of St. Joe

Family Physicians of St. Joseph

The practice steadily grew through the 80’s and 90’s, and Dr. Eggebrecht joined in 1993, at a time when family doctors still rounded in the hospital and delivered babies. In 2007, Dr. Mancini joined the practice, followed by Dr. Meadows in 2012, and Dr. Gendernalik in 2015.

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Parvo Podcast! Erythema Infectiosum, Fifth Disease, and more!

PEMBlog

Only about 25% of infected individuals will have this classic rash syndrome. This often requires hospitalization and transfusionin one series, 87% of children with transient aplastic crisis required packed red blood cell transfusions. By the time the rash appears, viremia has resolved and the patient usually feels well.

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Not “burnout,” not moral injury—human rights violations

Pamela Wible MD

Psychiatrists define burnout as a job-related dysphoria in an individual without major psychopathy—meaning you’re normal; your job is killing you. Individuals with moral injury may see themselves and the world as immoral and irreparable. So why are physicians experiencing physical and mental collapse from overwork? Not burnout.

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Surely You Must be Kidding, PTO?!? “No, and Don’t Call Me Shirley!” – The Seemingly Slapstick (But Yet Unfunny) World of Recent Patent Term Extension Decisions (PART 1)

FDA Law Blog

Consequently, because both applications were approved at the same time, both applications represent the first permitted commercial marketing or use of the product or the individual active ingredients, as outlined under 35 U.S.C. The second multiple PTE case brewing concerns FoldRx’s (a wholly owned subsidiary of Pfizer, Inc.) Patent Nos.

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Under Pressure: Hypertensive Emergencies in the Pediatric Emergency Department

PEMBlog

While elucidating the underlying cause of the hypertensive emergency is important for a patients ongoing care, your role in the pediatric ED is to: 1) stabilize airway, breathing, circulation; 2) minimize worsening end-organ dysfunction by acutely lowering blood pressure; and, 3) start work up to evaluate cause (Patel 2012).

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Does the Drug Shortage White Paper Fall Short?

FDA Law Blog

To address the underlying causes of shortages, the White Paper suggests that the creation (by Congress) of two programs that link inpatient hospital purchasing and payment decisions to supply chain resilience practices would better incentivize investments in mature manufacturing practices. methylphenidate, dextroamphetamine).