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.

Insurance 52

Insurance Patient-Centered Government Provider 52

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.

Patients 98

Patients IT Patient-Centered Hospital 98

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.

Hospital 115

Hospital Patient-Centered Supply Chain IT 115