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4 Ways Temporary Medical Staff Maintain Patient Care

Barton Associates

In this blog, we’re going to outline four key ways temporary medical staff such as locum tenens providers can help healthcare facilities maintain continuity of high-quality patient care in the face of growing shortages. Bring specialized skills that might be otherwise lacking among permanent staff.

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Farewell, Sweet Poopdeck.

Reflections of a Grady Doctor

What if he fully equipped you with confidence and enough self-love for meaningful adult relationships through his exemplary love of your mother, his siblings, his cousins, and countless lifelong friends? One distinctly different and special from the one you had with him as a child—and unique to you and no one else?

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Jennifer Newberger Returns to HPM as a Director After Stints with Apple, Abbott Laboratories, and Cognito Therapeutics

FDA Law Blog

She also specializes in medical device software and digital health. Jennifer’s return adds depth and breadth to our device practice and her strong relationships from her earlier time at the firm has made for a seamless reentry,” said J.P. Jennifer also helps clients with contract matters, regulatory due diligence, and public filings.

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Get the 4-1-1 on your 1099s: 5th and 7th Circuits Permit Paying Volume-Based Compensation to Independent Sales Agents

FDA Law Blog

The government asserted that Marchetti had relationships with, access to, and influence over doctors, but failed to show that Marchetti exercised any impermissible influence on them. In that decision, a medical laboratory paid Marchetti percentage-based compensation for successful referrals of Medicare patients to the laboratory.

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Rethinking Opioid Conversions: Mary Lynn McPherson and Drew Rosielle

GeriPal

So, every single [inaudible 00:05:10] there is per the table, in an equianalgesic relationship to one another. As I’ve been blogging about this for a couple months now, I’m really trying to find anyone who loves these things. Drew: I’ve published a draft version of it on the blog. That’s one aspect of it.

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Telemedicine and the Prescribing of Controlled Substances After the End of The Covid-19 Pandemic Emergency: DEA Announces Two Significant Proposed Rules: Read the Summary Below, But Learn All the Details and More at HPM’s Webinar on March 23, 2023 (Details Forthcoming….)

FDA Law Blog

While no “special registration” will yet be required to engage in telemedicine prescribing of controlled substances, DEA is proposing parameters to guide the practice of telemedicine encounters in a post-COVID world. 180 days past May 11, 2023) for those telemedicine relationships established during the COVID-19 emergency. 21 U.S.C. §

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Critics Suggest FDA Approving Aduhelm Will Erode the “Public Trust”: What About Patients’ Trust?

FDA Law Blog

For 6 years, I served as a patient liaison within FDA in what was then called the Office of Special Health Issues. Over the years, this function expanded to cancer (renamed the Office of AIDS and Special Health Issues) and, ultimately, all serious and life-threatening diseases (dropping the AIDS nomenclature). 3, 2020).