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Private Equity Gobbling Up Hospices plus Hospice and Dementia: Melissa Aldridge, Krista Harrison, & Lauren Hunt

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Eric: Alex, we have a super special today. We’ve got a hospice super special. Alex: We have a hospice super special day. Eric: We have a smorgasbord, if you will, of papers that got published recently around hospice, and that’s why we’re calling it a hospice super special. -@AlexSmithMD. Transcript.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

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I think the big one for me, it was in 2015. 2015, 2016. He created fee for service, special fee for depression. The typical utilization of inappropriate hospitalization and emergency room and total cost of care. What we didn’t have was the payment model to deliver the comprehensive dementia care. Malaz: Yeah.

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Do You Hear What I Hear? One Year of OTC Hearing Aids

FDA Law Blog

Koblitz & Philip Won — The first anniversary is always special. There was widespread agreement among stakeholders that utilization of hearing aids by people with hearing loss was far too low, although there was substantial disagreement as to causes for the underutilization. By Jeffrey N. Gibbs & Sara W.