FDA Law Blog

JANUARY 31, 2022

In addition, the Complaint alleges inappropriate dispensing to numerous individuals, multiple DEA recordkeeping violations, improper alteration of prescriptions, and violations Texas law and federal corresponding responsibility obligations required of pharmacists that dispense opioid prescriptions. 21 U.S.C. §

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FDA Law Blog

JANUARY 6, 2022

A “health care benefit program” is defined as “any public or private plan or contract, affecting commerce, under which any medical benefit, item, or service is provided to any individual, and includes any individual or entity who is providing a medical benefit, item, or service for which payment may be made under the plan or contract.”

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context As the population ages, access and continuity of primary care with the family physician are crucial for managing the complex health needs of persons with dementia. Population Studied Community-dwelling persons aged 65 and older with a prevalent diagnosis of dementia on March 1st of 2018, 2019, and 2020. 60.8%, 60.2%, and 58.8%

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Family physicians are central to managing the medical needs of older adults. This specialized workforce has not yet been classified in health administrative data, limiting our understanding of their individual and medical practice characteristics.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 21, 2025

Variceal glue therapy with non-selective β blockers (NSBB) is a standard approach for managing acute fundal variceal bleeding and reducing rebleeding risk in individuals with cirrhosis. After excluding 2 who were misassigned and 2 who withdrew consent, 101 individuals were included in the mITT population (mean age 58.2

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 30, 2022

Kozhimannil—the Distinguished McKnight University Professor in the Division of Health Policy and Management at the University of Minnesota and Director of the Rural Health Research Center. She urges us to recognize that maternal mortality changes the life trajectories of individuals and communities. Published January 16, 2019.

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GeriPal

MARCH 2, 2023

2022 Perioperative Gabapentin Use in Older AdultsRevisiting Multimodal Pain Management JAMA IM. AFP 2019 Gabapentin for chronic neuropathic pain in adults. 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. J Am Geriatr Soc.

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GeriPal

MAY 18, 2023

Mike: 2019. Eric: 2019. I was one of the authors on that paper, and tried to do an update in 2019, but for various reasons it fell through. Eric: Or another good example is like for individuals with dementia. Eric: And when was the last update? So is the plan updated every four years? Todd: Well, we try every three years.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Why the field is moving away from prescribing methadone to bupenorphine; how to manage patients prescribed methadone for opioid use disorder who then develop serious and painful illness – should we/can we split up the once daily dosing to achieve better pain control? For those individuals, how do you think about that?

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Medical Xpress

JUNE 8, 2025

The commonest strategy to manage acute pain in preterm babies is to give them sucrose , a sugar solution. One of these sites does not use sucrose for acute pain management. We found no link between preterm babies later behavior and how much sucrose they were given to manage pain. Whats more, pain isnt always managed.

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GeriPal

MAY 8, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary Weve covered psychedelics on the podcast beforefirst in 2019 with Ira Byock, where we explored their potential role in medicine , and then again in 2023 with Stacy Fischer, Brian Anderson, and Theora Cimino, focusing on the reasons to approach psychedelic use in patients with caution. So 5ht2 was. Almost all.

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FDA Law Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

DEA regulations state that a pharmacist has a corresponding responsibility not to fill a prescription unless it is issued for a “legitimate medical purpose by an individual practitioner acting in the usual course of [their] professional practice.” Improper Dosing for Pain Management. at 72,730.

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GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

I think some of that is from some of my thinking about maybe what I can potentially think about with the individual to support them. ” Eric: And I remember from my last podcast, Ashwin, it was about individualizing our approach to loneliness too, right? I would say that I primarily skew my questioning towards isolation.

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BMJ

MAY 10, 2022

Family physicians and family health workers, considered reliable sources of vaccine information, have a unique position where individuals in rural and urban areas can access frequently, uninterruptedly, cheaply, and easily [2]. Individuals over 65 years of age at home Yes 23 (65.7) Immunization, 2019. 150 (54.3) 126 (45.7)

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

I think some individuals thought there was cherry-picking of stories that made it seem like hospice is this bad thing, that it’s taking advantage of vulnerable individuals and it didn’t talk enough about the good things that hospice does. How many patients is my hospice nurse case manager responsible for on any given day?

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

I had looked at a research article that had recently evaluated the prevalence of private equity transactions in the hospice market and noted that there was a pretty substantial uptick in the past decade, and really over the course of say around 2015 to 2019. As a nurse case manager in hospice, half of my patients had dementia.

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BMJ

JUNE 25, 2021

This can also be seen in the sequential treatment decisions in managing cardiac risk 3 and the alternating statin therapy usage. 2019 ESC/EAS Guidelines for the management of dyslipidaemias: lipid modification to reduce cardiovascular risk. Cardiovascular Disease: Risk Assessment and Reduction, Including Lipid Modification.

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FDA Law Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2023

This occurred in January 2022 when the Departments issued additional guidance , which discussed reports of denial of coverage in violation of the ACA requirement and provided a reminder to plans and issuers of their responsibilities under the statute and 2019 HRSA Guideline (FAQ Part 51, Q9).

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FDA Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

As it stands, the rule allows insurers and pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) to broadly use copay accumulator programs, which have long been criticized by patient advocacy groups as padding insurers’ pockets while leaving patients high and dry. During the Trump administration, HHS and CMS issued the 2020 NBPP rule , revising 45 C.F.R.

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PEMBlog

APRIL 4, 2025

The episode emphasizes thoughtful, individualized care in the context of rising vaccine hesitancy and declining immunization rates. Immunization status and the management of febrile children in the pediatric emergency department: what are we doing? How we evaluate and manage these children because unfortunately. 2023;39(1):1-5.

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GeriPal

APRIL 17, 2025

Eric 10:04 And how many Major League managers are. So that Jackie Robinson had hoped to become a manager after he left baseball. And in his hall of Fame speech, he called for the day where there would be black managers in baseball. So basically the two best managers in baseball. I took my kids in 2019, 2020.

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FDA Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

A final OIG rule to change the structure of manufacturer rebates to Medicare Part D and Medicaid Managed Care plans and their PBMs is enmeshed in litigation and is likely to be at least postponed until 2026 (see our post ), and perhaps prevented from implementation altogether, by Congressional mandate.

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