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.

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GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

What should we use to screen individuals? I think that’s not hard to accept this conclusion, that if you know your patient, which is what you get with high continuity, you know your patient, you’re going to pick up on problems that they have before they get so bad that they end up in the emergency room or the hospital.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Tom: So we did this study because patients who go through the stem cell transplant process face a lot of misery in terms of physical symptoms, psychological distress, anxiety, depression, and even a risk of PTSD afterwards, sort of like a medical trauma, you might think of it. Emergency rooms. Why did you do this study, Tom?

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GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

And, you know, I just thought it was a really special song. As this patient has an x percent mortality in three months, there’s a little more nuance to it, and it isn’t really applied to the individual. When the lymphedema therapy, it’s a type of physical therapy where they do wraps and they go.

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

She’s a geriatric nurse practitioner specializing in palliative care, and assistant professor at the University of Maryland School of Nursing. We found their physical environment was drastically different; where those with low feeding tube rates had really a rather beautiful physical environment. Joan: Thanks.

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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. He created fee for service, special fee for depression. The typical utilization of inappropriate hospitalization and emergency room and total cost of care.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

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.’ And then, the patient can bypass the emergency room entirely. And that’s more standard.

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