GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

So for those of you listening via YouTube, here’s the live version for those of you who are listening on the podcast, you’re going to get my prerecorded version with lots of loops and I’m doing consultation with my new music teacher who’s a music producer in LA. Alex: So we’ll see what these come out like.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

We could look at cancer registry linked with… Like, I see here Medicare type big data sets, but then you have to rely on insurance claims and that’s going to underestimate SUD when most people aren’t getting treatment and it’s a tough nut to crack. Should they?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

I see this in the hospital when I’m doing addiction medicine consults. And we’ve been consulted multiple times. And then we sign off and then eventually get consulted again because the team put him on IV Dilaudid. Julia 04:25 I don’t think it’s only those who care for serious illness.

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GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

Prior podcasts on the ethics of nudging , and a different trial conducted by Kate and Scott in which the default for hospitalized seriously ill patients was to receive a palliative care consult. What is sludge? Sludge is apparently when you create barriers or extra work for someone. Prior-auth forms? I highly encourage you.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

They’ve brought on experts, they’ve brought on additional people who are researchers or consultants who do this work all day long, and have added a lot of content. Goal five is focused on quality insurance, so designing a more effective and responsive system of quality assurance. Eric: Okay.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

Eric: When I try to think about what a doula does, should I call it a consult? Alex: It sounds like there’s a need for more evidence in order to justify expansion and policy to cover death doulas nationally or even on a state by state basis or insurance by insurance basis. It just depends. I’m using my medical brain.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

His lymphoma had relapsed, and palliative care was consulted to help with his symptoms. It was all covered by my mom’s insurance. The post Stories We Tell Each Other to Heal: Ricky Leiter, Alexis Drutchas, & Emily Silverman appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

Through a series of events, I started working as a consultant to the Department of Corrections in around 2006, and I was assigned to the California Medical Facility. But if the services that they require aren’t able to be provided within, they have Health Net as their insurance, so we contract with specialists in the community.

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GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

maybe eight or 10 months ago, “Please write a prior authorization to the insurance company. The thing just wrote this beautiful, absolutely beautiful, well-constructed prior authorization request to the insurance company. Eric: Now, insurance companies are going to want handwritten prior authorizations. Bob: Be well.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 1, 2024

People are coming from the south, they’re coming from the islands for their surgeries or for their rare disease consultations or their specialty follow ups for really advanced or difficult cases. But if your patient is not able to do those things, I wouldn’t say don’t have insurer.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 22, 2024

Insurance companies. Healthcare provide. Healthcare companies. Eric 11:54 And also lots of other things we don’t even think about too revolve around this life insurance and whether or not how much you can sue your doctor or healthcare providers for depends if the patient’s still alive or if they’re dead.

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