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Predicting Likelihood of Missed Appointments in Primary Care [Health care informatics]

Annals of Family Medicine

Despite efforts to improve patient-clinician relationships, access to care, and healthcare workflows, annual rates of missed appointments (MA) in the U.S Population Studied Adult patients scheduled for in-person or telehealth visits between 01/2019-06/2023. remain between 15-30%, costing $150 billion annually.

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District Court Interprets EKRA

FDA Law Blog

S&G Labs alleged during the litigation that they are paid on a “per test” basis by third party insurers, government agencies under the Medicare and Medicaid programs, and direct “self-pay” by some individuals. S&G Labs has no contractual relationships with the entities that referred clients to S&G Labs. EKRA Issue.

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District Court Interprets EKRA

FDA Law Blog

S&G Labs alleged during the litigation that they are paid on a “per test” basis by third party insurers, government agencies under the Medicare and Medicaid programs, and direct “self-pay” by some individuals. S&G Labs has no contractual relationships with the entities that referred clients to S&G Labs. EKRA Issue.

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PC for Patients with Substance Use Disorder: Janet Ho, Sach Kale, Julie Childers

GeriPal

But back in 2019, there was a lot of disagreement in our group about whether for a patient with cancer and cancer related pain and a substance use disorder, whether palliative care was the appropriate specialty to care for those patients. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. And I see everybody’s nodding to that.

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Stories We Tell Each Other to Heal: Ricky Leiter, Alexis Drutchas, & Emily Silverman

GeriPal

So I think just as much as we focus on the science and the evidence, it’s important to think about the art of how we apply that to people and the relationships and all of the great fun stuff, the stories that unfold in the exam room alongside the science itself. It was all covered by my mom’s insurance. Eric 04:44 Yeah.

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The Promise and Pitfalls of AI in Medicine: Guest Bob Wachter

GeriPal

Alex: In 2019 … You wrote two viewpoints about AI recently in JAMA, relatively recently. I guess, 2019, and then, one again about last month or so. maybe eight or 10 months ago, “Please write a prior authorization to the insurance company. I think, the long haul, it’s really hard to know where this goes.

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