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Is a Medical Office Assistant Career Right for You?

Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

Confirming patients’ insurance coverage. Effective communication skills: Medical office assistants must clearly communicate with patients, doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals. Knowledge of medical terminology: Understanding common abbreviations, diagnoses, and procedures helps you do your job effectively.

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Healthcare Jobs in Hamden, CT: Opportunities for Every Experience Level

Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

Medical biller: Medical billers are responsible for submitting claims to patients’ insurance providers, and following up to ensure the practice receives payment. Authorization specialist: Authorization specialists are responsible for getting pre-authorizations from patients’ insurance providers to ensure upcoming services are covered.

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The Healthcare Vision of ChatGPT-4o and Multimodal LLMs

The Medical Futurist

Although this revolution has been brewing for years, the past few months marked a major change , as algorithms finally moved out of the specialized labs and into our daily lives. These systems will considerably reduce the workload of – but not replace- human healthcare professionals.

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Buprenorphine Use in Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Zachary Sager and Janet Ho

GeriPal

We got some really special guests with us. And I remember being there and there was a patient who had seen inpatient and then subsequently outpatient who was so thankful in the weirdest in just this irrational way for having been diagnosed with liver cancer. Management of chronic pain in the elderly: focus on transdermal buprenorphine.

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Between Two Urns: Undertaker Thomas Lynch

GeriPal

Eric 00:05 And Alex, we have a special episode today — B etween T wo U rns. And this seems very basic, but try it with your insurance agent or your pastor, you know, or your banker at 03:00 in the morning. And I got to sing Tom Waits’ Time, one of my favorites. Transcript Eric 00:01 Welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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Sexual Function in Serious Illness: Areej El-Jawahri, Sharon Bober, and Don Dizon

GeriPal

On today’s podcast Areej El-Jawahri, oncologist specializing in blood cancers at MGH, says that sexual health is one of the top if not the top issue among cancer survivors. Alex 00:06 We are delighted to welcome back Areej El-Jawahri, who’s an oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital who specializes in blood cancers.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

GeriPal

Eric: And looking back at that time, what do you think the healthcare system could have done to help with that? With your journey, with your dad’s journey- Diane: They could have diagnosed him earlier. They could have diagnosed him earlier. So that’s I think diagnoses. And we find out, oh, there is no demand.