The Physicians Foundation

AUGUST 15, 2024

This prestigious award is part of The Physicians Foundation’s Leadership Award Program and honors a physician who has gone above and beyond to connect patients with the social, economic, educational and environmental resources necessary for their overall health. The award is named in honor of Richard (Buz) Cooper, M.D., As the U.S.

Primary Care 40

Primary Care Community Chronic Disease Management Education 40

GeriPal

MAY 5, 2022

Screening for addressing hearing loss should be an integral part of what we do in geriatrics and palliative care, but it often is either a passing thought or completely ignored. How to screen for hearing loss. Nick: More than obesity, more than education, that’s the one that people pay attention to.

IT 102

IT Screening Hospital Clinic 102

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

A multivariate logistic regression model was used to determine associations between receiving an eye exam in the preceding 12 months and various economic, insurance-related, geographic, and social factors. Outcomes were reported as odds ratios (OR) with 95% confidence intervals (CI).

Diabetes 130

Diabetes Screening Insurance Healthcare 130

Permanente Medicine

MAY 20, 2025

I know we go back quite a ways and that this is a very important topic for all of us to really to talk about and to be educated about. They’re due for cervical cancer screening, that they get that if they are due for a lab test, they get that. Khang Nguyen (01:45): Thank you so much, Chris. By the way.

Patient-Centered 52

Patient-Centered Patients IT Medical 52

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 22, 2025

High social risk burden in adults with IBD drives emergency care use and medication gaps—spotlighting the urgent need for social screening in clinical practice. 52.1]), after adjusting for income and insurance status. A greater social risk burden was linked to increased odds of unplanned healthcare utilization (severe vs none: OR, 3.5

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Transportation IT Insurance 52

Alabama Academy of Family Physicians

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Ed Oliver, HB 45 would require the Alabama Medicaid Agency to cover any noninvasive colorectal cancer screening test assigned a grade A or B under the recommendations of the United States Preventive Services Task Force. Additionally, health insurers would be barred from taking adverse action against providers for providing cost transparency.

Insurance 130

Insurance Management Hospital Vaccination 130

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

After discussing screening options for substance use disorder, we go on to talk about both the treatments for it and the issues that arise. So, we are not screening for substance use in cancer care, so we don’t get good estimates among people with cancer, which is really how we would prefer to ask the question.

Illness 136

Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 136

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Emmy: Having said that, I think we need to recognize that the gold standard, thorough OT assessment is not a reality for a lot of people, because of there aren’t enough of them, because of insurance might not cover it, and so forth. We and many others have tried to come up with a short, validated screening tool.

IT 102

IT Families Family Diagnosis 102

FDA Law

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

In addition, the guideline has been misapplied to cancer and palliative care patients, and there have been rapid opioid tapers without patient collaboration, rigid application of opioid dosage thresholds, application of opioid use for pain to opioid use disorder treatment, insurer and pharmacy duration limits, patient dismissals and abandonment.

Patients 52

Patients Patient-Centered ER Individual 52

GeriPal

MARCH 9, 2023

Stacy: We’re using anxiety, baseline anxiety, as our screening. Alex: So that’s not our prototypical screening ESAS question. So I think understanding or keeping in mind those concerns will be helpful in educating and recruiting participants or providing harm reduction in a naturalistic setting.

Patient-Centered 91

Patient-Centered Community IT Medical 91

GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

And that came down a lot of times to asking the provider whether they felt they met criteria and then also looking to see if they had the financial, like the proper insurance or things like that. Like an AI robot goes in the room with the screen and that links to the human palliative care provider and is also the companion.

Nurse Practitioner 78

Nurse Practitioner Referral Consulting Board-Certified 78

GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

I can remember two instances of storytelling in training or in education, I guess. It was all covered by my mom’s insurance. Alex 07:35 Can I interject here? When I was a UCSF med student a quarter century ago, I was behind by a quarter century. Which I don’t blame her. It was a home based pallia program.

IT 107

IT Community Patients Families 107

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. Eric: Now, insurance companies are going to want handwritten prior authorizations. Eric: Yeah.

IT 139

IT Electronics Patients Healthcare 139

GeriPal

AUGUST 1, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

IT 116

IT Diabetes Chronic Disease Patient-Centered 116

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 had the tenacity and education to try to figure this out. That never happens in CMS and other health insurance. Diane: Yeah.

Patient-Centered 125

Patient-Centered IT Families Family 125

Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 6, 2025

These screening measures help identify conditions in their earliest stages. Cancer Screenings Cancer screenings stand out as especially important preventive health care examples due to their ability to detect cancer at pre-symptomatic stages when treatment is most successful.

Preventative Care 100

Preventative Care Preventive Care Family Physician Screening 100