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2025 Doctor Job Outlook: Why Go Locum Tenens?

Barton Associates

Despite projected shortages, the overall job outlook for a doctor in the United States is positive— according to the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) , overall employment of physicians is projected to grow 4% between 2023 and 2033, which is as fast as the average for all occupations, healthcare or otherwise.

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Advanced Pain Management in Cancer: Janet Abrahm

GeriPal

Eric and I are working on it…maybe by 2023? . Usually, if the patient doesn’t respond to 300 three times a day, insurance will let you give the pregabalin, because they’re generics now. If we could get insurance approval all the time, I would only use pregabalin, because you know it’s being linearly absorbed.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

GeriPal

You come over to the clinic, you go to the hospital, you provide service, and the insurance and you negotiate how much you’re going to get paid. That never happens in CMS and other health insurance. 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.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

GeriPal

What is it about my insurance, that does not cover me staying in this hospital?” Bruce: That would definitely be considered a macroaggression in 2023. The post Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

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