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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

These individuals are often high utilizers of health care services, with some of the costliest services being hospital admissions and emergency department (ED) visits. Additionally, we found a statistically significant reduction in PMPM Kansas Medicaid costs.

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An Escape Fire for Healthcare

Noreta Family Medicine

An Escape Fire for Healthcare I recently watched a film, called “ Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare, ” a 2012 documentary about how the priorities in the US healthcare system are focused on increasing revenue, instead of on goals that improve health, like preventive care.

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Episode 392: Antiracism in Medicine – Episode 27 – Racial and Gender Health Disparities in Youth Suicide: Part 2

The Clinical Problem Solvers

She is the Psychiatrist-in-Chief and Chair of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). The episode also explores how digital tools can help youth manage their mental health, while also noting the need for culturally relevant care providers. Benton TD.

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

PEMBlog

Youll also learn how to manage exposures in the emergency department, especially when the child has a pregnant caregiver, and why isolation isnt always necessary once the rash shows up. Viremia peaks at days five through ten after exposure, and that’s when the patient is most contagious. But what is it?

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Former FDAer Dr. Ellis F. Unger Joins Hyman, Phelps & McNamara, P.C. as Principal Drug Regulatory Expert

FDA Law Blog

He completed his cardiology training at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1987. Dr. Unger transitioned to the Office of Drug Evaluation-I in 2009, and became its Director in 2012. Unger joined CDER as the Deputy Director of the Division of Cardiovascular and Renal Products.

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Does transitional care management improve outcomes after discharge from the hospital?

Common Sense Family Doctor

Since the turn of the century, the rise of hospitalists and the corresponding decline in the number of office-based family physicians who provide inpatient care for their own patients has magnified the value of optimizing the handoff from hospital-based teams to primary care physicians.

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In asymptomatic severe aortic stenosis, is earlier intervention better?

Common Sense Family Doctor

A JAMA review article quotes a 2020 American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association guideline as recommending surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) for patients younger than 65 years, TAVI for patients 80 years or older, and either procedure in patients 65 to 79 years, depending on operative risk and comorbidities.