Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

When Alyne Diamond fell off a horse in August 2023 and broke her back, her employer-based health plan through UnitedHealthcare covered her emergency care in Aspen, Colorado. It also covered related pain management and physical therapy after she returned home to New York City. The bills totaled more than $100,000.

Insurance 52

Insurance Patient-Centered Government Provider 52

GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

But the thing that really motivates me is seeing, you know, and trying to manage later stage, you know, we can call them complications of people who haven’t had a diagnosis are now really in, you know, a world of complexity around other conditions, around managing life and managing practical things. But I don’t.

Screening 119

Screening Primary Care Patient-Centered IT 119

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Sheryl: Largely the people who live there as opposed to government funds. ” And the requests from management were to ask her to prescribe antipsychotics to try and sedate some of these behaviors away. Biggest differences, not licensed as a nursing home, don’t have to have nurses. I barely know what it is.”

Community 97

Community IT Mental Health Medical 97

GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

I’m wondering, you talked about that patient who was really isolated and coming to the emergency room. You can use it on one thing to either have government, individual providers, healthcare systems do one thing differently. Were you administering scales to pick up on loneliness and isolation? Lightning round: magic wand.

IT 99

IT Community Patient-Centered Medical 99

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. Well, if you are like me, you’ve probably heard of these programs but are at a loss to know exactly what they do. Eric: And Susan?

Community 89

Community Nurse Practitioner Provider IT 89

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. The typical utilization of inappropriate hospitalization and emergency room and total cost of care.

Patient-Centered 125

Patient-Centered IT Family Families 125