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

FDA Law Blog

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. The expert specifically found that: Patient A.R.

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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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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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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. And just going back to that patient, I’ll tell you, before I started this role, I would have probably looked at the handout box in our clinic and been like, oh, okay. Is it the patient?

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

GeriPal

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.