GeriPal

JUNE 12, 2025

But now that at least at the University of Pennsylvania, the radiation oncology department is sort of well integrated into the cancer center here, and we have a really strong relationship with the palliative care team and even the internal medicine residents whom we give talks to. So you have the consultation. Like, is it just boom?

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Patient-Centered Referral Patients IT 102

Permanente Medicine

JUNE 3, 2025

Access is so important because that is the reason the patient signs up with health insurance is so that they can get care, whether primary or specialty. We have to get that right or else the patient [is] going to go to a different entity or a different insurance company. WM: I love that we are agnostic to insurance.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Medical 52

Today's Hospitalist

JUNE 7, 2025

“You want someone who can monitor patients’ side effects and have a longitudinal relationship with them.” If you have to hold a GLP-1 agonist for more than the dosing schedule in patients with diabetes, get an endocrine consult for an alternative diabetes treatment.) Prior approvals are also “a real challenge.

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Hospital Management Diabetes Patients 66

ABIM

JUNE 4, 2025

They also noted a distinction in telehealth practices between remote consultations in different states and using telehealth to treat patients who live nearby. Efforts to recruit physicians and students to train in endocrinology have included working with the Latino Medical Student Association.

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GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

And so we do have consultants who come in the building. And usually it’s simply for a consultation. And, you know, some, some relationship with hospice, some might not do many referrals at all to hospice. Some will have stronger relationships with hospice. Reasons why people thought about consulting palliative care.

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Nurse Practitioner Referral Consulting Board-Certified 78

GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

Jasmine: It’s an imaginative love story that deconstructs age through an intergenerational friend relationship. 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. Eric: Can I ask why? Eric: Okay.

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Finance Board-Certified IT Provider 95

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Panelists Katie Fitzgerald Jones and Jessica Merlin have no relationships to disclose. Even if the cancer gets cured, they’re not going to become their buprenorphine prescriber, the palliative care consultant. But the cancer specific databases just don’t have this information. Should they?

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Illness Patient-Centered Screening IT 136

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

I see this in the hospital when I’m doing addiction medicine consults. Alex 10:49 And then when you say accountability without termination, that sounds like it speaks to a core principle of palliative care around non abandonment and building relationships. And we’ve been consulted multiple times. Julia 11:02 Yeah.

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Patients Clinic Patient-Centered Illness 72

GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

An end-of-life doula is a non-medical support person that provides a longitudinal relationship with aspects of medical, I mean, aspects of companionship, presence, holding space, some logistics, some practical help, decision making perhaps. Eric: When I try to think about what a doula does, should I call it a consult? John: Yeah.

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Provider Illness IT Healthcare 117

New South Family Medicine and MedSpa

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

The practice doesn't depend on the insurance company to say whether they will pay for a certain procedure or a particular test, and how much. Instead, they establish a direct patient-provider relationship, for a flat fee. You can continue to use your insurance for medications and for labs as well. Safe for sensitive skin.

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Family Medicine DO Family Families 40

GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

So I think just as much as we focus on the science and the evidence, it’s important to think about the art of how we apply that to people and the relationships and all of the great fun stuff, the stories that unfold in the exam room alongside the science itself. It was all covered by my mom’s insurance. Eric 04:44 Yeah.

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IT Community Patients Family 107

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.

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IT Electronics Patients Healthcare 139

GeriPal

AUGUST 1, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Anna Pleet, Elizabeth Eckstrom, and Emily Johnston have no relationships to disclose. But if your patient is not able to do those things, I wouldn’t say don’t have insurer. That might be a great solution for them.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 22, 2024

Insurance 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. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose.

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IT Family Families Patient-Centered 113