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CMS Publishes Grab Bag of Proposed Changes to the Medicaid Drug Rebate Program

FDA Law

Diagnosis in prescriptions The statutory definition of a “covered outpatient drug” excludes a drug used for an indication that is not a “medically accepted indication,” which is in turn defined as an indication that is approved by FDA or that is favorably noted in specified drug compendia. 42 U.S.C. §§ 1396r-8(k)(3) and 1396r-8(g)(1)(B)(i).

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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

GeriPal

What are the structural factors and individual factors that contribute to homelessness? We would drill down on the tenth differential diagnosis of medium vessel vasculitis, and then we would discharge them back out to the streets. The worse the structural factors are, the fewer individual factors you need to become homeless.

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Whoop! There It Is: A Pertinent Pediatric Pertussis Podcast

PEMBlog

In this episode of PEM Currents: The Pediatric Emergency Medicine Podcast , we explore pertussis, also known as whooping cough – a disease that remains a public health challenge despite widespread vaccination efforts. Pertussis infection in infants and children: Clinical features and diagnosis.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

GeriPal

The patients that, I think, most benefited from it were those individuals who, as I said, maybe, had a pneumonia, and needed IV antibiotics, but wanted to do that… If they could get better in the comfort of their own homes, that were not interested in passing away in the hospital. Bruce: This is, Ghostbusters, basically, a ham radio.

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