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Hematology Board Meeting Summary | Spring 2025

ABIM

Visit the ABIM Blog for reports of prior meetings. Topics that came up in discussion included concerns around limited clinical trial access for patients in underserved populations, escalating costs and insurance challenges, such as shifting coverage policies. The following is a summary of the spring meeting.

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CDC Proposes Updating Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids, Warning Against Continued Misapplication

FDA Law Blog

We blogged on the final 2016 guideline here on March 17, 2016). As explained more fully below, CDC concedes that states, insurers, pharmacies and pharmacy benefit managers have implemented laws, regulations and policies that have misapplied the 2016 guideline. 7,838 (Feb. 10, 2022); Dowell, Deborah, MD., 2016 Guideline.

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Buprenorphine Use in Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Zachary Sager and Janet Ho

GeriPal

Our experts include Katie Fitzgerald Jones (palliative nurse practitioner and doctoral student at Boston College), Zachary Sager (palliative care physician at the Boston VA and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute), and Janet Ho (physician at UCSF in addiction medicine and palliative care). Learn about using the low dose buprenorphine patch:

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CDC Emphasizes Opioid Guideline is Voluntary and Should Support, Not Supplant, Patient Care

FDA Law Blog

We blogged on the 2016 guideline here in March 2016, and the proposed guideline here on March 18th). The 2022 guideline comes at a critical time as more and more resources are being devoted to preventing opioid abuse and provide much needed addiction treatment. 2022 Guideline at 15. (We 2022 Guideline at 3.

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

GeriPal

Alex: We are delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Katie Fitzgerald Jones, who’s a nurse scientist at the New England Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, and a palliative and addiction nurse practitioner at the VA in Boston. And you wrote, actually, a beautiful GeriPal blog about it a while ago.

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Keynote: Finding your bliss—beating physician “burnout”

Pamela Wible MD

I’ve met and helped hundreds of nurse practitioners, PAs, physicians recapture this bliss and I want all of you to feel it too. I felt like a lot of doctors feel—they feel like they’re locked into criminal rings committing insurance fraud just to stay afloat. You get your own insurance checks.

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