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Pharmacists in Florida (and Elsewhere): Waive Prescribing Red Flags at Your Peril

FDA Law

Alternating Between Cash and Insurance According to the government’s expert, patients paying for prescriptions with insurance and for others with cash is a red flag for those paid with cash. paid for some medications with insurance while paying for other controlled medications in cash, and Patient M.W.

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Impact of polydoctoring on admission among older adults with multimorbidity; a large-scale claims database analysis in Japan. [Multimorbidity]

Annals of Family Medicine

Polydoctoring, characterized by patients with multimorbidity receiving treatment from multiple specialists, often leads to fragmented care, associated with polypharmacy and increased medical costs. Dataset: This study utilized the DeSC database, which includes health insurance claims data from multiple types of health insurers in Japan.

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Hearing Loss in Geriatrics and Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nick Reed and Meg Wallhagen

GeriPal

Association of Sensory and Cognitive Impairment With Healthcare Utilization and Cost in Older Adults. And that’s true across the spectrum of care, but it becomes increasingly important when you think about people with multiple chronic conditions, who really do have to make some of these very difficult conversations and decisions.

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How State and Local Agencies on Aging Help Older Adults: Susan DeMarois, Greg Olsen, and Lindsey Yourman

GeriPal

It was designed to really balance what Medicaid at the time was to provide nursing homes and Medicare is obviously health insurance. 60% of all medical costs have nothing to do with your health diagnosis. This is reaching the highest utilizers with a wraparound suite of services. Acute care is called acute care for a reason.

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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. But for other- Diane: And it’s on the medical side. That never happens in CMS and other health insurance. Malaz: … we pay right now for service. Diane: Huge.