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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

The Court explained that the unsigned prescriptions sent to physicians are best understood as proposals for care, not as referrals. In that decision, a medical laboratory paid Marchetti percentage-based compensation for successful referrals of Medicare patients to the laboratory. Medicare or Medicaid). Polin , 194 F.3d 3d 863 (7th Cir.

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The 340B Showdown: HRSA Proceeds Towards Enforcement Despite Litigation

FDA Law

By 2014, the HHS Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) found that the rise of contract pharmacy arrangements resulted in duplicate discounts and drug diversion, and a lack of access to 340B pricing at the contract pharmacies. HRSA based its opinion on the statute and agency precedents over the last 25 years.

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Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

GeriPal

Because I don’t think we think about that so much in palliative care, but we do in geriatrics. But I believe before we start, somebody has a song request for Alex. Is it you, Emmy? Emmy: It is. Eric: What’s the song? Emmy: I just forgot the name of the song… [laughter]. Alex: Pink Cadillac by Bruce Springsteen? I like that song.

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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

GeriPal

Today we discuss: What is the best terminology? Homelessness? Marginally housed? What makes palliative care for people experiencing homelessness challenging? What makes it rewarding? What is unique about the practice of palliative care for people experiencing homelessness? And I gonna choose Bryan Adams, summer of 69. Naheed 03:48 Yeah, for sure.

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RCT of Chaplaincy: Lexy Torke, Karen Steinhauser, LaVera Crawley

GeriPal

Lexy: Yeah, so I can say that I became about, in 2014, I had the opportunity to lead a center at our health system called the Evans Center that focuses on religion, spirituality, and health. It meets in-person, once a month, over nine sessions. First, the lyrics, that’s the main reason why I chose it. The theme is death. LaVera: Yeah.

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Podcast Episode: Febrile Seizures

PEMBlog

Nat Genet 2014; 46:1274. Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing; 2024 Jan-. Available from: [link] Feenstra B, Pasternak B, Geller F, et al. Common variants associated with general and MMR vaccine-related febrile seizures. Mullan PC, Levasseur KA, Bajaj L, Nypaver M, Chamberlain JM, Thull-Freedman J, Ostrow O, Jain S. And you know what?

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