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Medicaid expansion is in the eye of the beholder

The Health Policy Exchange

To the ACA's detractors, Medicaid expansion is a hostile government takeover that must be opposed in principle, regardless of potential benefits of an infusion of federal dollars. Long-term care services (nursing homes, mental health, home health care) accounted for 3 in every 10 dollars that the program spent.

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Direct Primary Care - Role for the Future of Healthcare

The Direct Doctors Difference

Looking back to 2014, when we began, there were less than 100. Care is individualized with the incentive to keep patients healthy and keep the patient experience pleasant. As the market speaks, the corporations and governments will eventually have to listen. Patients are seen directly by doctors in many cases.

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Approaches for Quelling Stigma related to COVID-19

BMJ

A multilayered view of stigmatizing discourses lays the foundation for eliciting a series of suggestions for quelling stigma, to be implemented at the individual, community, and national levels, as suggested by the WHO. 2014 (28 August). Ebola-related stigma in Ghana: Individual and community level determinants.

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Get the 4-1-1 on your 1099s: 5th and 7th Circuits Permit Paying Volume-Based Compensation to Independent Sales Agents

FDA Law Blog

Two recent cases from the Fifth and Seventh Circuits, however, support the legality of these arrangements in the absence of the government proving certain circumstances. Mallory , 988 F.3d 3d 730 (4th Cir. The case law on commission-based marketing agentsincluding the Sorensen decisionfollow in a similar vein. Marchetti , 96 F.4th

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Gabapentinoids – Gabapentin and Pregabalin: Tasce Bongiovanni, Donovan Maust and Nisha Iyer

GeriPal

2011-2014 JAMDA 2020 Efficacy of Gabapentinoids: Gabapentinoids for Pain: Potential Unintended Consequences. I also heard that if you look at all individuals in the US, about 4% of individuals are taking one of the gabapentinoids, 10% over 65. We should be able to trust all the data that comes from our governing board.

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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

GeriPal

link] PEACH Good Wishes Program A program that provides meaningful gifts for unhoused individuals who are terminally ill. We talk a lot about people being unhoused, which I think takes the blame away from the individual and kind of de. Naheed 15:56 2014. Eric 15:57 2014. Is it individual? Yeah, yeah.

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Ding Dong is the Skinny Label (Effectively) Dead?

FDA Law Blog

Teva case, that the statutory provisions governing patent infringement, specifically induced infringement, do not address carve-outs. The catch is, as we have learned from the GSK v. Until recently, there hasn’t been a need for such a safe harbor, as Courts have not found inducement to infringe in this context, but the GSK v.

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