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

I don’t have access to change the levers of government. And maybe there is a need for a paradigm shift of moving away from screening for dementia versus a brain health type of approach. Eric 19:56 Okay, but I’m a primary care provider. Ana chodos, what should I be? Who should I be screening for? But I don’t.

Screening 120

Screening Primary Care Patient-Centered IT 120

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Sheryl: Largely the people who live there as opposed to government funds. And it’s interesting there because long-term care is covered by the government, but still assisted living has emerged as a private market to try and accommodate some of this demand for supportive services. So, all this was done in Toronto.

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. Things like smoking status, level of physical activity, a variety of other lifestyle and biological risk factors that may be alternative explanations. Were you administering scales to pick up on loneliness and isolation?

IT 100

IT Community Patient-Centered Medical 100

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

So elderly people who aspirated, got pneumonia, had an mi, didn’t get hauled off to the emergency room on an ambulance crew so they could die in the ER. And so I thought about it a while, called, and sure enough, they brought him up to the emergency room. The intention was to place it in the beds in nursing homes.

Patients 98

Patients IT Patient-Centered Hospital 98

GeriPal

AUGUST 15, 2024

It’s both institutionalized racism where there are policies and practices by corporations, by government that create inequality. And in our reporting center, we tracked physical assaults, verbal harassment. And also physical assault from serious injuries to just kind of hearing about friends who have died from this incident.

Mental Health 118

Mental Health Community Screening IT 118

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Too many people do because it’s really hard to keep their loved ones at home for the cost, the enormous financial, mental and physical strain for the family. The typical utilization of inappropriate hospitalization and emergency room and total cost of care. Diane: Which too many people do, Malaz. And guess what?

Patient-Centered 126

Patient-Centered IT Families Family 126