PEMBlog

MAY 16, 2024

Racepinephrine (Racemic epinephrine) is used for croup patients who have stridor at rest and post extubation stridor. In times of shortage, intravenous EPINEPHRINE 1 mg/mL can be utilized as a nebulized solution in place of racepinephrine using the dosing of 0.5 mg/kg to a max of 5 mg.

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California Academy of Family Physicians (CAFP)

MAY 14, 2025

Proposed Changes to Prescription Drug Coverage Prescription Drug Utilization Management- Implements utilization management and prior authorization for prescription drugs. This means patients will no longer be automatically grandfathered in for medications that are not on—or are removed from—the Medi-Cal Rx Contract Drug List (CDL).

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Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Through food pharmacies, food insecurity screenings and innovative community partnerships, health care providers are ensuring patients get the nourishment they need to thrive. The Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians (MAFP) adopted a resolution (policy guidance) in 2024 related to addressing food insecurity in Minnesota.

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Annals of Family Medicine

MAY 27, 2025

METHODS We used the 2019 Virginia All-Payers Claims Database to identify primary care physicians (PCPs) and the number of distinct patients seen by each physician. Guided by the Andersen model of health care utilization, we identified predisposing, enabling, need, and structural community characteristics from public data sources.

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Logansport Memorial Hospital

MARCH 4, 2024

Logansport Memorial Hospital is pleased to announce the opening of a new pain management center on April 1, 2024. Our team of providers utilizes an interdisciplinary model of care, including physical therapy, neurology, primary care, medical imaging, and other areas to address patient well-being from multiple perspectives.

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Sound Physicians

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Sound Critical Care is at the forefront of bringing coordinated leadership and clinical excellence to hospital ICUs and the patients within them. Clinicians must divide their time between the ICU and the group’s outpatient channels, and keeping up with patient demand becomes difficult.

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Today's Hospitalist

MAY 9, 2025

For many of us, the emergence of medical scribes, both in-person and remote, provided a valuable solution, offloading documentation and allowing us to have more focused patient interactions. At its core, the technology utilizes sophisticated speech recognition to transcribe a conversation in the exam room or at the bedside. The result?

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FDA Law

MAY 13, 2024

FDA recognizes the potential of RWE to support regulatory submissions of medical devices and to inform benefit-risk analysis of such products, while assuring patients have timely access to devices. percent of examples. ” ( 89 FR 20882 at 20889, March 26, 2024). Patients that use ESD undergo continuous 24/7 monitoring.

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Physician's Practice

JUNE 23, 2025

Topics Access and Reimbursement Billing & Collections Coding & Documentation Finance Law & Malpractice MedMal by Coverys Patient Engagement & Communications Staffing & Salary Technology Media Video & Interviews Podcasts Medical World News Pearls Surveys Best States to Practice Great American Physician Survey Staff Salary Survey (..)

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Physician's Practice

JUNE 16, 2025

Topics Access and Reimbursement Billing & Collections Coding & Documentation Finance Law & Malpractice MedMal by Coverys Patient Engagement & Communications Staffing & Salary Technology Media Video & Interviews Podcasts Medical World News Pearls Surveys Best States to Practice Great American Physician Survey Staff Salary Survey (..)

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Physician's Practice

JUNE 9, 2025

Topics Access and Reimbursement Billing & Collections Coding & Documentation Finance Law & Malpractice MedMal by Coverys Patient Engagement & Communications Staffing & Salary Technology Media Video & Interviews Podcasts Medical World News Pearls Surveys Best States to Practice Great American Physician Survey Staff Salary Survey (..)

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FDA Law

JULY 17, 2022

An example of such a drug is a single-use vial of an injectable cancer drug that is dosed based upon weight, and therefore might not be entirely used for a lighter weight patient. For example, the October 1, 2025 report will contain claims for 2Q 2024 through 1Q 2025, plus lagged claims from 2Q 2023 through 1Q 2024.

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Physician's Practice

JUNE 6, 2025

Topics Access and Reimbursement Billing & Collections Coding & Documentation Finance Law & Malpractice MedMal by Coverys Patient Engagement & Communications Staffing & Salary Technology Media Video & Interviews Podcasts Medical World News Pearls Surveys Best States to Practice Great American Physician Survey Staff Salary Survey (..)

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FDA Law

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

From new initiatives to facilitate faster reviews for new indications under the Split Real Time Application Review (STAR) pilot program, to bringing new meetings under PDUFA goals, to continued support for rare diseases and incorporation of the patient voice, the goals letter revealed a good number of welcome announcements.

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FDA Law

JUNE 27, 2024

50,372 , 50,377 (June 13, 2024). Prescribing Red Flags In the Gulf Med decision, DEA emphasized that “[r]ed flags are circumstances surrounding a prescription that cause a pharmacist to take pause, including signs of diversion or the potential for patient harm.” The expert specifically found that: Patient A.R.

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FDA Law

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Valentine On November 19, 2024, FDA released a draft guidance titled Frequently Asked Questions Developing Potential Cellular and Gene Therapy Products. Tobolowsky & Charles G. Raver & James E.

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FDA Law

JUNE 16, 2023

Initial appointments to both the Board and advisory council will occur by January 1, 2024. Prescription Drug Affordability Board The law also establishes a nine-member Prescription Drug Affordability Board and an 18-member stakeholder advisory council to provide advice to the Board on drug cost issues.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective, Study Design, & Outcome Measures This study aims to characterize racial differences in smoking cessation pharmacotherapy use among cigarette users within the Epic Cosmos database from January 2005 to January 2024. Results In the Cosmos database, 11.3% (n=17,124,293) of patients reported previous or current tobacco use.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 14, 2025

The following is a summary of “Bridging Gaps in LDL-C Management: Utilization of Lipid-Lowering Therapies, Gender Disparities, and the Impact of Cardiology Visits on Secondary Prevention,” published in the June 2025 issue of American Journal Cardiology of by Sedrakyan et al.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 22, 2025

of patients tested for urinary mast cell mediators were female. 0.97], P = 0.02). Investigators concluded that sex differences in testing rates and urinary mediator levels highlighted the necessity of considering sex when optimizing the diagnostic utility of these mediators. years), more frequently reported ever smoking (33.5%

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AMMD

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

The American Cancer Society predicts roughly 2,001,140 new cancer cases and 611,720 cancer deaths in 2024 (1). This order involves cellular creation, utilization, division, regulation, and disintegration. It takes a more holistic approach to health and wellness and is gaining the attention of patients and physicians alike.

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FDA Law

OCTOBER 16, 2024

In a redacted opinion published October 15, 2024 , the DDC granted FDA and intervenor MSN’s Motion for Summary Judgment, rejecting all of Novartis’s allegations and holding that FDA’s approval of MSN’s product did not violate the Administrative Procedure Act or the FDC Act. Citing to “[b]inding Circuit law” in Bristol-Myers Squibb v.

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PEMBlog

JUNE 2, 2025

Upon entering the room, you find the patients nurse at the bedside already in mid-conversation with the patients parent. In pediatric patients, this condition should be considered when blood pressure exceeds the 95th percentile for age, height, and sex by more than 30 mm Hg, or reaches levels above 180/120 mm Hg in older adolescents.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The insight started when Carmen, an orthopedic surgeon-researcher, and Katie, a physical therapist- researcher participated in ride-alongs with EMS providers to patient’s homes. Going into patient’s homes was eye opening. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

He also found gaps, including very few studies of patients with lung disease, and little impact of trials on quality of life. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. Your research is a lot in this patient population, right? The article we discuss today, also published in JAMA , addresses these two gaps.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

First, in our editorial, we expressed concern about the length of stay metric not being patient centric, though important for health systems focused on cost savings. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. And, of course, this is what families of patients undergoing palliative care go through.

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FDA Law

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Despite the removal of some of the most controversial proposals, the final rule still contains a variety of significant changes, which become effective on November 19, 2024. Three-Year Limit on Disputes: The final rule establishes a three-year limit for manufacturers to dispute, audit, or request a hearing on state utilization data.

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GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

JAGS 2024 Nursing Home Palliative Care Referral Process, Barriers, and Proposed Solutions: A Qualitative Study. Eric 03:25 So we have a lot to talk about, but I’m wondering if we can kind of take a big step back and just talk about the patient population that’s in nursing homes. Alex 03:21 Beautiful, beautiful song.

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PEMBlog

MARCH 27, 2024

She did her MD/PhD at Columbia University, where she investigated the diagnostic utility of exome sequencing for kidney disease. Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing; 2024 Jan-. identifying which specific IEM the patient has is part of the later long term evaluation, typically with the help of your friendly geneticist.

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FDA Law

JULY 9, 2024

The deadline for the Draft Guidance was December 29, 2023, so the draft, issued on June 26, 2024, is about 6 months late under FDORA’s mandate. FDA encourages sponsors to consult patients and healthcare providers to assist in developing such strategies. providing language assistance); Reducing participant burden (e.g.,

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

Today we have a star-studded lineup, including Lexy Torke of Indiana University, who discusses her RCT of a chaplaincy intervention for surrogates of patients in the ICU , published in JPSM and plenary presentation at AAHPM/HPNA. These studies are important. So, learn as many as you can and what they’re all about.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Give too much, it may cause harm (even if the higher dose had no significant side effects, it would require patients to take a lot of unnecessary additional pills as well as increase the cost.) So, what is the effective dose of palliative care? Give too little – it may not work. Jennifer 04:25 I can take that on. Eric 05:32 Yeah.

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New South Family Medicine and MedSpa

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Direct primary care offers you and your family top-notch health care, and so much more.like a high patient and provider satisfaction with an improved quality of care. Providers at New South Family Medicine and MedSpa can address the patient's deeper needs, rather than trying to rush through a hectic day full of too-brief appointments.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” Care Ecosystem.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 11, 2025

And that support is for the patient and their caregiver — because both can experience social isolation and distress after a diagnosis. A 2021 study published in Frontiers in Public Health indicated that even online memory cafes during the pandemic provided social support for both patients and their family members. from an estimated 6.9

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FDA Law

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Under all of these programs, patient co-insurance would be calculated based on the MFP so that patients receive the benefit of that price. In the coverage gap phase, the patient would continue to pay 25% coinsurance but manufacturers would subsidize 10% of the remaining cost through the new CGDP. 8126 with a lower MFP.

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FDA Law

JUNE 1, 2025

The Protecting Patients from Deceptive Drug Ads Online Act, co-sponsored with Senator Mike Braun (R-IN), seeks to close regulatory gaps by empowering FDA to issue Warning Letters and impose fines on social media influencers and telehealth companies that promote prescription drugs without proper disclosures of risks and side effects.

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