Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

When Alyne Diamond fell off a horse in August 2023 and broke her back, her employer-based health plan through UnitedHealthcare covered her emergency care in Aspen, Colorado. More than a year after her riding accident, Diamond was back at the emergency room after she tripped on a step while entering a New York restaurant.

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Doctor On Demand

APRIL 28, 2025

When to go to the ER for a sore throat Go to the emergency room (ER) if your sore throat causes any difficulty swallowing or breathing. Infections or allergic reactions can block your airway and lead to life-threatening complications. Weakened immune systems increase the risk of complications — seek care sooner.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Louise 05:02 Yes, well, I don’t know about 2024, but in 2023, yes, it could happen. Alex 15:13 This is really complicated. So elderly people who aspirated, got pneumonia, had an mi, didn’t get hauled off to the emergency room on an ambulance crew so they could die in the ER. It happened to my mother.

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Patients IT Patient-Centered Hospital 98

FDA Law Blog

MAY 21, 2024

29, 2023) (“Basis”); NPRM at 44,603. Scientific Evidence of Marijuana’s Pharmacological Effects, If Known HHS found that marijuana abuse can lead to negative consequences that include addiction and the need for medical attention through poison center calls or emergency room visits. Basis at 18; NPRM at 44,605. NPRM at 44,607.

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Physicals Medical Clinic Emergency Room 69

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The pneumonia could get treated, but I think geriatricians, actually, were well aware of iatrogenic complications of care and quality gaps, even well before the IOM reports of the late 1990s and the like. And then, the patient can bypass the emergency room entirely. This is before value-based care, all of that.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

By the time Eric Tennant was diagnosed in 2023 with a rare cancer of the bile ducts, the disease had spread to his bones. The West Virginia Legislature passed bills in both 2019 and 2023 requiring insurers to respond to nonurgent authorization requests within five days and more urgent requests within two days, among other mandates.

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