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Misconceptions of Employer Sponsored Direct Primary Care (DPC)

Plum Health

Easy access and relationship-driven care minimize long-term healthcare expenses and cut down on unnecessary urgent care and emergency room visits. As employees change their healthcare usage behavior, both primary and specialty care claims decrease. If you have a great relationship with your PCP, keep it! Sadly, up to 80% do not.

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Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

GeriPal

Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast, Caroline. Caroline: Thanks, Alex. I know it’s a mouthful. It’s exciting to be here. Alex: And welcoming back to the GeriPal Podcast for, like, her 10th time, we have Lauren Hunt, who is nurse researcher and assistant professor at the UCSF School of Nursing. Welcome back to the GeriPal Podcast, Lauren.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

GeriPal

How is it financed and what comes next? We would find these people in the hospital, and we said, “What would you have thought if someone had come up to you in the emergency room yesterday, and said, ‘Hey, instead of going upstairs, you could go home.’ Alex: Good challenge. Thanks, Bruce. Eric: Okay.

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‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ Would Batter Rural Hospital Finances, Researchers Say

Physician's Weekly

Cuts to Medicaid and other federal health programs proposed in President Donald Trump’s budget plan would rapidly push more than 300 financially struggling rural hospitals toward a fiscal cliff, according to researchers who track the facilities’ finances. Medicaid cuts would push them further into financial peril.

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