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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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Doctor: "You are ready for discharge."

Mere Mortal MD

Then there are all the nurses and nursing aides interrupting what little sleep you are trying to get, as well as the doctors, physician assistants, or nurse practitioners breeze into and out of your room so fast your hair stirs in the wind. His medical diagnoses were stable. He did not need to be in the hospital.

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

GeriPal

Our experts include Katie Fitzgerald Jones (palliative nurse practitioner and doctoral student at Boston College), Zachary Sager (palliative care physician at the Boston VA and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute), and Janet Ho (physician at UCSF in addiction medicine and palliative care). This was the hot topic at AHPM. Katie: Thank you.

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

GeriPal

Alex: We are delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Katie Fitzgerald Jones, who’s a nurse scientist at the New England Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, and a palliative and addiction nurse practitioner at the VA in Boston. Katie, welcome back to GeriPal. Bragging rights. Alex: Yeah. Jessie: Yes.

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PC for Patients with Substance Use Disorder: Janet Ho, Sach Kale, Julie Childers

GeriPal

I remember as a fellow, I would come in and our nurse practitioner on our hospice team, I would say the word narcotics, and f or half an hour, she would just lay into me. Alex 01:17 We had the wrong terms drilled into us. We just unlearn what we have learned. laughter] Eric 01:21 Like narcotics. You know the case.

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How State and Local Agencies on Aging Help Older Adults: Susan DeMarois, Greg Olsen, and Lindsey Yourman

GeriPal

It was designed to really balance what Medicaid at the time was to provide nursing homes and Medicare is obviously health insurance. I have 24,500 veterans on our caseload, 14,000 individuals with diagnosed mental health issue, 8,500 with an alcohol and substance abuse. But, what you need is a community-based game there.

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

GeriPal

I actually went to planned parenthood of Rhode island, and as a practicing oncologist, sat with folks, some of who had just graduated high school, others who were nurse practitioners, and they started from the very, very basics of pelvic anatomy. These are oncology nurse practitioners. It’s not that simple.

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