GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Our field really lacks specificity in the terms that we use, and I think we really don’t know how chronic cancer pain, let’s say, a few years out from that initial diagnosis differs from, let’s say, chronic low back pain. But the cancer specific databases just don’t have this information.

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Illness Patient-Centered Screening IT 136

GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

Well, I’d agree, John, for palliative care ideally starts around the time of diagnosis. That’s where we have the largest evidence base for palliative care in the outpatient setting, in the setting of serious illness around the time of diagnosis. Alex: That is not around the time of diagnosis. Jane: Right. Alex: Yeah.

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Provider Illness IT Healthcare 117

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

My typical approach with somebody who’s in a methadone clinic, say, a recent cancer diagnosis, and they’re relatively healthy, they can still get to the methadone clinic, although they might not like it, is to. They’re only allowed to prescribe it for opioid use disorder, opioid cravings and Sach.

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Patients Clinic Patient-Centered Illness 72

GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

But if the services that they require aren’t able to be provided within, they have Health Net as their insurance, so we contract with specialists in the community. So we’re designing a program where it won’t matter on what the housing is. Everybody has a primary care doctor, a primary care nurse, a team.

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Family Families IT Community 132

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. AI has a long and not storied history in healthcare. ” Now, that of course is wacky.

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IT Electronics Patients Healthcare 139

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. 60% of all medical costs have nothing to do with your health diagnosis. But, what you need is a community-based game there. Acute care is called acute care for a reason. You go back home.

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Community Nurse Practitioner Provider IT 89

GeriPal

AUGUST 22, 2024

I love these topics, too, because even how do we define what is a diagnosis? Insurance companies. Healthcare provide. Healthcare companies. Winston Chiong and Sean Aas appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. Eric 04:38 And can I ask you, when did you.

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GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

So this is about two and a half, three years out from leukemia diagnosis. And the point of that is that so many people, in my experience, and I’m sure it’s the same initial diagnosis of cancer, that’s the last thing that I want to talk about. And I said, sure. And I had that mortified look on my face of God.

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Illness IT Physicals Patients 130

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

But what happened when we finally… When he did get the diagnosis, it all fell into place. You come over to the clinic, you go to the hospital, you provide service, and the insurance and you negotiate how much you’re going to get paid. That never happens in CMS and other health insurance. Diane: Huge. And guess what?

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Patient-Centered IT Family Families 125

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The other way to think about who’s eligible… I talked about coming at this from a diagnosis point of view, people with certain conditions that you need to be hospitalized for. We’re not paid, as part of a DRG, for any particular diagnosis. What is it about my insurance, that does not cover me staying in this hospital?”

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Hospital Patient-Centered Supply Chain IT 115