FDA Law Blog

JANUARY 31, 2023

The economic pathway was not eliminated but left as an alternative that has almost never been used…perhaps fodder for one of many, nearly countless possible follow-up stories to this first one!).

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GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

And so certainly from a family’s perspective, a family caregiver perspective, the last thing we want to have when it comes to good dementia care is a diagnose and audio scenario, or in this case, some type of screening result, and then we’ll see you again in six months. It can’t be diagnosed and adios.

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FDA Law Blog

JUNE 4, 2025

Ordinarily, a public health initiative of such magnitude would have been governed by a transparent multi-step process featuring public meetings and drawing on external scientific expertise. In other words, as you read this, the Assessments findings and recommendations are getting baked into federal government policy, for better or worse.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

For the policy buffs and policy newbies out there, we hope this podcast is an essential primer to government in action. Because I know in the early 2000s, there was this whole thing about reporting estimation of GFR, let’s get the GFR in front of people so that we can diagnose CKD and that was the equation that was being used.

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GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

Just today (June 17th) as we record this podcast: Ezra Klein released a wonderful interview with Sarah McBride , the first openly transgender member of congress A judge ruled that cuts to NIH grants focused on minority groups, including transgender people, were illegal and ordered the government to restore funding.

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GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

And so I began to think about the training that I had and that there was no mental health condition that was diagnosed. In fact from the time he was diagnosed, he passed away within two and a half weeks. You can use it on one thing to either have government, individual providers, healthcare systems do one thing differently.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

As somebody who has been part of literally more non-profits than I can remember, non-profit governance structures is a pain in the ass. And even up to a year out across diagnoses, every diagnoses including neurodegenerative diseases, costs less for those enrolled in hospice compared to not. (singing) Ira: Thank you very much.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

And so now for March, 2024, the government still has said they’re planning to expand it for mental illness conditions. Now, I don’t know if that just means that their oncologist gave them a Dilaudid prescription and that counts as having palliative care.

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GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

The results were that the chat bots got the diagnoses right and had an escalation strategy that was better than the doctors, as judged by blinded specialists reading the transcripts. You and I would listen to a suggested list of diagnoses and say, “That’s a reasonable idea. They had no idea. That’s a reasonable idea.

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GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

And the government can do something about that?!? May not even know that the patient has dementia, or they might think that, but it’s not been diagnosed. So that’s the macro environment and the role in this government policies, how this could play a role. Eric 42:13 What do you want the government to do?

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

I have 24,500 veterans on our caseload, 14,000 individuals with diagnosed mental health issue, 8,500 with an alcohol and substance abuse. Well, if you are like me, you’ve probably heard of these programs but are at a loss to know exactly what they do. To Susan’s point. Older people don’t live in the Offices for the Aging.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

With your journey, with your dad’s journey- Diane: They could have diagnosed him earlier. They could have diagnosed him earlier. So I remember talking with David Reuben and others and say, all right, we need to be a doctor and diagnose exactly the question you ask, Eric. So that’s I think diagnoses.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 22, 2024

Like, if we think about the fact that hospitals around the country, around the world, you know, people are, you know, coming in, they’re being diagnosed as dead on the basis of neurologic criteria, and that we. We do have, like, a relatively operable consensus around this where, you know, it’s working in the hospitals.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

” Curtailing the practice, through which medical providers effectively inflate diagnoses and procedures to charge more, has bipartisan support and could increase the savings by reducing the amount the government pays for care.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 25, 2025

” Oz said he wants insurers to eliminate preapprovals for knee arthroscopy, a common, minimally invasive procedure to diagnose and treat knee problems. But government interventions to improve prior authorization will be used “if we’re forced to use them,” Oz said during the news conference.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 25, 2025

Testing and outreach for HIV faltered in the South , a region that accounts for more than half of all HIV diagnoses. In the 1980s, the government refused to acknowledge HIV as gay men died young. Half of new diagnoses today are in the South and a third are among people with low incomes.

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Physicians News Digest

APRIL 2, 2025

In addition to those for preventive purposes, doctors may order colonoscopies to diagnose existing concerns, as was the case for Winard. The federal government offers subsidies based on household income for ACA plans, which can make them comparable in cost to cheaper, short-term plans — but with a wider range of benefits.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

JUNE 20, 2025

HHS has traditionally relied on panels of non-government experts to guide its work in prevention, and after the DOGE-driven cuts that resulted in the departure of 20 percent of its workforce , it needs outside help more than ever.

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Physicians News Digest

APRIL 3, 2025

At their first meeting with the leadership of AHRQ last month, officials from Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency said that they didn’t know what the agency did — and that its budget would be cut by 80% to 90%, according to two people with knowledge of the meeting who were granted anonymity because of fears of retribution.

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Physicians News Digest

APRIL 1, 2025

And as one of the first actions of his second term, Trump fired 17 independent inspectors general responsible for rooting out fraud and waste in government. “It Melgen falsely diagnosed patients with eye diseases, then gave them unnecessary care, including laser treatments and painful eye injections, according to DOJ and court documents.

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