FDA Law Blog

JANUARY 6, 2022

In general, EKRA prohibits, knowingly and willfully, soliciting, receiving, paying or offering kickbacks in exchange for referring to, inducing a referral to, or using the services of a recovery home, clinical treatment facility, or laboratory. The Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act (“EKRA”). 18 U.S.C. § 18 US.C. § 220(a) (emphasis added).

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Lab Testing Referral Individual Patient-Centered 40

GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

We talk with them about the epidemiology, assessment, and management of dysphagia, including the role of modifying the consistency of food and liquids, feeding tubes, and the role of dysphagia rehabilitation like tongue and cough strengthening. This is Eric Widera. Alex: This is Alex Smith. Here at UW Health, we call it our Swallow Service.

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Hospital IT Patient-Centered Individual 124

GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

But in reality, given workforce shortages and just the challenges and the resources necessary to be able to provide early integrated palliative care from the time of diagnosis of advanced cancer, the model simply is not implementable, at least not in our current state with our available infrastructure and resources. And well skilled.

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Telehealth Patient-Centered IT Patients 105

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

In particular, we talk about Katie’s and Jesica’s paper in NEJM titled “ Juggling Two Full-Time Jobs — Methadone Clinic Engagement and Cancer Care ,” which described the difficulty in managing cancer pain and methadone for opioid use disorder. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. Jessie, welcome back to GeriPal.

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Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 136

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. We might say, “Of course you’re sad, you just got a very serious diagnosis.” ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. I’m dying.”

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Mental Health Patient-Centered Illness Screening 122

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Often when there’s a cognitive concern, it’s a family member that is calling saying, “I just want to make sure my mom should still be driving after this happened, or after this diagnosis.” Emmy: I would say one big thing, though, is I try to not just make any decision based on a diagnosis, perhaps obviously.

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Family Families IT Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. Eric 07:08 Which of the patients that you think you’re helpful for, you want referrals? ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 109

GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Eric 12:05 Any pearls on the diagnosis of HFpEF. If it’s continuing and it’s getting worse and maybe they have some swelling in the legs, there are some subtle findings on the echo, but really think for a second, could this be this really common cardiovascular condition, echocardiogram, maybe even a referral to a cardiologist?

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Primary Care Patient-Centered IT Patients 113

GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

If the community hospital isn’t able to provide a service like tertiary care, oncology care, they would get a referral to UCSF or wherever, just like anybody in the community. And the dad just totally lost control, major anger management issues. But the cost to society is higher because they have to be escorted by an officer.

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Family Families IT Community 132

GeriPal

MARCH 20, 2025

And we got this as a hospice referral, and could we, you know, take her on and support her in hospice? And we’ll say that we will link to an article that Hope and Thaddeus and others, I think Tim Quill was on there, wrote in journal, Pain and symptom Management, I think it was. Who do you give informed consent to?

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Medical 87

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. I’ve been on a quest to build those services and support so that people can make true, informed decisions for themselves and their families. Eric: And Susan?

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Community Nurse Practitioner Provider IT 89

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

And now when I think about the clinic at Duke, when we’re really running on all cylinders, we can get ourselves up to a five, six, seven week wait for a new palliative care referral. Within eight weeks of diagnosis of advanced disease. It’s not just about physical symptom management. English or spanish speakers.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 119

GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

But most people with dementia are initially diagnosed and medically managed in primary care, and they really desire clinicians to initiate these conversations but there are a number of really important barriers for these conversations taking place. It was information about our ACP facilitator. We were agnostic on the timing.

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Primary Care IT Clinic Illness 79

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

That this is iterative from diagnosis to end-of-life, right? And that kind of prognostic information can be just as valuable, really, to patients and their families planning as time-based information. Get the hospice referral. You don’t have to make this decision because we have this information right here.”

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Illness Patient-Centered IT Family 98

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. So cancer.net has information on this. And I said, sure.

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Illness IT Physicals Patients 130