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"Sludge audits" identify obstacles to completing colorectal cancer screening

Common Sense Family Doctor

Paperwork required to sign up for health insurance and to establish care with a practice. Patients with Medicaid insurance or dual Medicare-Medicare coverage were more likely than those with private insurance to report sludge. Calling to schedule the next available appointment and taking time off work. Wait times.

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District Court Interprets EKRA

FDA Law

220 and was described on HP&M’s blog here. In general, EKRA prohibits, knowingly and willfully, soliciting, receiving, paying or offering kickbacks in exchange for referring to, inducing a referral to, or using the services of a recovery home, clinical treatment facility, or laboratory. EKRA is codified at 18 U.S.C. § 18 U.S.C. §

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District Court Interprets EKRA

FDA Law

220 and was described on HP&M’s blog here. In general, EKRA prohibits, knowingly and willfully, soliciting, receiving, paying or offering kickbacks in exchange for referring to, inducing a referral to, or using the services of a recovery home, clinical treatment facility, or laboratory. EKRA is codified at 18 U.S.C. § 18 U.S.C. §

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Scope This! A Podcast on Gastroesophageal Reflux and Gastritis

PEMBlog

They all work fine and there’s some pediatric formulations which you can look up and sometimes insurances will take one and not the other, again, beyond the scope of this episode. But if they’re not improving, And that could be a cause for referral to gastroenterology. A trial of four to eight weeks would be reasonable.

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New South Family Medicine and MedSpa Offers Next Level Care

New South Family Medicine and MedSpa

The practice doesn't depend on the insurance company to say whether they will pay for a certain procedure or a particular test, and how much. With the direct primary care model, your insurance is used for what it is intended to cover: catastrophic health events, hospitalizations, specialist care, imaging, and surgery.

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Hematology Board Meeting Summary | Spring 2025

ABIM

Visit the ABIM Blog for reports of prior meetings. Several members of the Hematology Board raised important points to consider when defining community practice, such as access to transfusion and investigational therapies, regional referral dynamics and differences in availability of services such as stem cell transplantation.

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

GeriPal

And you wrote, actually, a beautiful GeriPal blog about it a while ago. We could look at cancer registry linked with… Like, I see here Medicare type big data sets, but then you have to rely on insurance claims and that’s going to underestimate SUD when most people aren’t getting treatment and it’s a tough nut to crack.

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