GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Why the field is moving away from prescribing methadone to bupenorphine; how to manage patients prescribed methadone for opioid use disorder who then develop serious and painful illness – should we/can we split up the once daily dosing to achieve better pain control? When to consider bupenorphine vs methadone? That’s what we do.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

Healthcare, just the way healthcare is structured, that’s not something that’s feasible unless there’s a specific symptom management need that allows for more care, but just to provide simple care doesn’t exist. Well, I’d agree, John, for palliative care ideally starts around the time of diagnosis.

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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. And the dad just totally lost control, major anger management issues. So we’re designing a program where it won’t matter on what the housing is.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Started as a direct case manager, worked in a variety of different places including the state legislature and I’ve been with the state office now since 2006. It was designed to really balance what Medicaid at the time was to provide nursing homes and Medicare is obviously health insurance. Eric: And Susan? 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? And then another, which was released under the Bush administration by a council with a different sort of philosophical Benton worldview which still managed to come to the same conclusion in support of a brain based definition, death. Insurance companies.

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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

This model will give participating programs a per-member-per-month payment to offer care management, care coordination, and other services such as caregiver training, disease education, and respite. I didn’t know how to manage it. But what happened when we finally… When he did get the diagnosis, it all fell into place.

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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. By the year 2000, everyone will be in a Medicare managed care plan.” We’re not paid, as part of a DRG, for any particular diagnosis.

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Hospital Patient-Centered Supply Chain IT 115