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. 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. That makes it really special for them and for me. And I had his address.

Patients 98

Patients IT Patient-Centered Hospital 98

GeriPal

AUGUST 15, 2024

And because of this encounter, this patient went to the emergency room twice due to having panic episodes that felt like heart attacks. Really, across the board, there was a spike, and it seemed to have, seems to have come down from 2022 to 2023. And my preceptor and I had to start him on an antidepressant.

Mental Health 116

Mental Health Community IT Screening 116

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

He created fee for service, special fee for depression. The typical utilization of inappropriate hospitalization and emergency room and total cost of care. So we came out with a report in March of 2023, followed it on the heels of a report that we had done in November, 2022. And I talked with Jürgen. It didn’t help.

Patient-Centered 125

Patient-Centered IT Family Families 125

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

We would find these people in the hospital, and we said, “What would you have thought if someone had come up to you in the emergency room yesterday, and said, ‘Hey, instead of going upstairs, you could go home.’ And then, the patient can bypass the emergency room entirely. And that’s more standard.

Hospital 115

Hospital Patient-Centered Supply Chain IT 115