Barton Associates

MAY 8, 2025

Support continuity of care for patients with chronic conditions who require regular follow-ups. Ensure specialty services remain available, even when permanent specialists are scarce. Allow facilities to maintain their full range of services without cutting back due to staff shortages.

Medical Staff 52

Medical Staff Medical Patients Healthcare 52

FDA Law Blog

JUNE 27, 2024

Florida’s Administrative Code requires pharmacists prior to dispensing to “review the patient record and each new and refill prescription.

Insurance 52

Insurance Patients Utilities Chronic Condition 52

GeriPal

MAY 5, 2022

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.

IT 102

IT Screening Hospital Clinic 102

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Study Design and Analysis: This is a retrospective cohort study that utilized a Cox proportional hazards model to calculate hazard ratios (HRs) for hospital admissions, adjusting for age, sex, and the Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI). Instrument: The Regularly Visited Facility (RVF) metric was used as an indicator of polydoctoring.

Chronic Condition 130

Chronic Condition Insurance Utilities Hospital 130

Permanente Medicine

JUNE 3, 2025

To address the growing demand for health care services combined with workforce shortages, utilizing health care innovations that improve patient health and restore the joy in medicine for physicians and clinicians is more essential than ever. And utilization is expected to grow as the number of Americans who are 65 and older is expected to.

Utilities 52

Utilities Chronic Condition Healthcare Patients 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Study Design and Analysis: A phenomenological approach was utilized. Population studied: Adults 50+ years of age who had two or more chronic conditions. Seventeen in-depth interviews were conducted with older adults who had multimorbidity. Team members included researchers and a patient partner. Thematic analysis was conducted.

Chronic Condition 130

Chronic Condition Utilities Family Families 130

GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

However, its main predictors are age, comorbidity, and healthcare utilization. Lyndsay: That’s a great question. Eric: VA people will know what that is. David: Yeah. It used to be a much more complicated model. Eric: Okay. And then, you chose for the intervention to include a nurse and a social worker. David: They were not.

Patient-Centered 122

Patient-Centered IT Illness Patients 122

GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

This is reaching the highest utilizers with a wraparound suite of services. I understand from states, our state, California, why we’re focused so much in on Medicaid and high utilization and cost and the way to try to influence that away. We’re in about year two right now.

Community 89

Community Nurse Practitioner Provider IT 89

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The typical utilization of inappropriate hospitalization and emergency room and total cost of care. And those people have a higher, not just dementia, but other multiple chronic conditions. We have to demonstrate we can do that. Otherwise, we will be kicked out of the program or the payment. So that’s very important one.

Patient-Centered 125

Patient-Centered IT Family Families 125

FDA Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Medicare negotiation authority; encourage biosimilars and generic drug utilization). One proposal is a cap on out-of-pocket costs, primarily to help beneficiaries with expensive chronic conditions that can face large, even catastrophic, out-of-pocket spending every year. Part D currently has no such cap.

Manufacturing 98

Manufacturing Supply Chain Patient-Centered Utilities 98