Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Health institutions rapidly adopted video and voice consultations to limit viral transmissions. This concern is in part due to the risk of replacing in-person visits, which are beneficial for building rapport in the mother-infant-provider relationship. Further, lower insurance reimbursement rates can limit its clinical use.

Telehealth 130

Telehealth Consulting Hypertension Mental Health 130

GeriPal

MAY 5, 2022

Screening for addressing hearing loss should be an integral part of what we do in geriatrics and palliative care, but it often is either a passing thought or completely ignored. How to screen for hearing loss. Eric: And how do we screen for it? Communication techniques we can use when talking to individuals with hearing loss.

IT 102

IT Screening Hospital Clinic 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. Let’s get this important cancer screening test done.

IT 52

IT Patient-Centered Patients Medical 52

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

After discussing screening options for substance use disorder, we go on to talk about both the treatments for it and the issues that arise. Panelists Katie Fitzgerald Jones and Jessica Merlin have no relationships to disclose. I mean, the simple answer is, yes, we should be screening people for substance use disorder.

Illness 136

Illness Patient-Centered Screening IT 136

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.

Nurse Practitioner 78

Nurse Practitioner Referral Consulting Board-Certified 78

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.

IT 107

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.

IT 139

IT Electronics Patients Healthcare 139