FDA Law Blog

JUNE 27, 2024

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. Patient J.C.’s

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 22, 2025

High social risk burden in adults with IBD drives emergency care use and medication gaps—spotlighting the urgent need for social screening in clinical practice. A greater social risk burden was linked to increased odds of unplanned healthcare utilization (severe vs none: OR, 3.5 [1.2-10.2])

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GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

This is both a research and a clinical interest of yours. But that just didn’t really resonate with what I saw clinically which was that there was lots of suffering both in the patient, their family and on the clinical team and just felt it was really this space where I didn’t have a lot of evidence to guide me.

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GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

For example, putting the healthy food at the back of the grocery store is sludge; making an applicant for health insurance climb the flight of stairs to the office – weeding out those less fit – is also sludge. We tested two different nudges individually and then we combined them. Prior-auth forms? I highly encourage you.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

It sets space between us and the individuals we’re trying to take care of. I think that consistency of what is the expectation of our roles is crucial in a lot of ways, but that role is determined by the individuals we’re serving. I often say that doulas are mirrors. Again, I go back to this. Is that right, Jane?

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GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

So, how can we improve palliative care for individuals in nursing homes? Eric 17:06 Think like almost 50% of nursing home decedents utilize hospice, and that number has grown over the last two decades. Like, yeah, utilization of hospice has increased pretty well. Some will have stronger relationships with hospice.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

It was designed to really balance what Medicaid at the time was to provide nursing homes and Medicare is obviously health insurance. I have 24,500 veterans on our caseload, 14,000 individuals with diagnosed mental health issue, 8,500 with an alcohol and substance abuse. But, what you need is a community-based game there.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

And that’s where, based on this, I made a decision to leave University of North Carolina to come to Indiana University because my mentor, Chris Callahan, just received the grant from AHRQ to build the first randomized clinical control trial that evaluated the comprehensive dementia care model. ” Diane: Fantastic. Diane: Huge.

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