Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

JUNE 2, 2025

Medical biller: Medical billers are responsible for submitting claims to patients’ insurance providers, and following up to ensure the practice receives payment. Licensed practical nurse: LPNs assist with providing patient care, such as changing bandages or giving medications, under supervision.

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Healthcare Nurse Practitioner Primary Care Physician Primary Care 52

GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

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). Learn about using the low dose buprenorphine patch:

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Illness Patient-Centered IT Patients 102

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

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. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. Katie, welcome back to GeriPal.

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Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 136

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

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. But, you know, I’ve talked to a lot of palliative care providers, a lot of people caring for people with serious illness. You know the case.

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Patients Clinic Patient-Centered Illness 73

GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

It was designed to really balance what Medicaid at the time was to provide nursing homes and Medicare is obviously health insurance. The long-term care is being actually provided in the community at a much higher rate than what the formal system provides. But, what you need is a community-based game there.

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Community Nurse Practitioner Provider IT 89

GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

And that really is what prompted me to get certified as a sexual education provider. 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.

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Illness IT Physicals Patients 130

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” Diane: Yeah.

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Patient-Centered IT Families Family 125