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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. This study also provides the first formal evaluation of the KHH program.

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

Family Physicians of St. Joseph

Joseph, the family medicine practice is committed to providing exceptional, affordable, patient-centered primary care in SW Michigan without reliance on insurance companies for payment of services. John Proos, with the goal of providing exceptional care to the patients of Berrien County. Joseph, P.C.,

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Q&A: Cannabis Use Tied to Reduced Working Memory

Physician's Weekly

Gowin and his colleagues analyzed data from 1,003 adults between 22 and 36 years of age who had functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), urine toxicology, and cannabis use results collected at one academic site between 2012 and 2015 as part of the Human Connectome Project. The cohort (mean age, 28.7

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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

The episode also explores how digital tools can help youth manage their mental health, while also noting the need for culturally relevant care providers. Disparities in Restraint Practices: Disparities in restraint practices are addressed, particularly the disproportionate use of physical and pharmacologic restraints on Black people.

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Wave of Warning Letters to Foreign OTC Drug Manufacturing Facilities Following Remote Records Requests

FDA Law Blog

Section 704(a)(4) was added to the FDCA by the Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Action (FDASIA) in July 2012. Despite FDA having the authority to conduct paper inspections since the statutory provision was added to the FDCA by FDASIA in 2012, FDA did not issue a warning letter citing Section 704(a)(4) until January 2021.

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Long Time Passing: Where Have All the De Novo Decision Summaries Gone?

FDA Law Blog

The De Novo process provides a regulatory pathway to classify novel devices for which general controls alone or general and special controls provide reasonable assurance of safety and effectiveness for the intended use. This amendment allowed sponsors with low or moderate risk devices to proactively employ the De Novo process.

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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 2)

FDA Law Blog

A surrogate endpoint is a marker, such as a laboratory measurement, radiographic image, physical sign or other measure that is thought to predict clinical benefit but is not itself a measure of clinical benefit. That PTE application was submitted to the PTO on July 26, 2012. 6,953,787 [] for [PTE] request under 35 U.S.C. §

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