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New Report: U.S. Primary Care System Crumbling Amid Historic Disinvestment and Surge in Chronic Diseases

The Physicians Foundation

Diminishing Workforce: Primary care clinician shortages worsen access to care The number of primary care clinicians, including physicians, nurse practitioners (NPs), and physician assistants (PAs), decreased from 105.7 Oregon also ranks highest in primary care spending for Medicaid (8.2%) and Medicare (6.4%). per 100,000 in 2022.

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Physician Felons: How to Stay Out of Prison

Pamela Wible MD

Here are 11 unforgettable cases involving my friends & family—with hard lessons learned. His license revoked, his high-risk patients left without care, Aaron was sentenced to more than a year in federal prison for insurance fraud. government convicted him for distributing controlled substances. I warned her to steer clear.

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Improving Nursing Home Quality: Jasmine Travers, Alice Bonner, Isaac Longobardi, and Mike Wasserman

GeriPal

Jasmine brings up that NASM hadn’t done a report in like 40 years, but 1974 was the first time the Senate Subcommittee on Aging did a scathing report on nursing homes. There have been multiple subsequent government reports on nursing home care, most recently was about eight, nine years ago from the OIG.

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How State and Local Agencies on Aging Help Older Adults: Susan DeMarois, Greg Olsen, and Lindsey Yourman

GeriPal

Administration on Aging connecting you to services for older adults and their families California’s Master Plan for Aging New York’s Master Plan for Aging Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. It was designed to really balance what Medicaid at the time was to provide nursing homes and Medicare is obviously health insurance.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

GeriPal

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” Malaz: I love it.

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In a First, Trump and GOP-Led Congress Prepare To Swell Ranks of U.S. Uninsured

Physician's Weekly

So began the stress of trying to pay for tens of thousands of dollars in treatment — without health insurance. Making sure he had insurance was the last thing on his mind, until recently, Fry said. To save money, Fry said, he’s taking a less aggressive treatment route than his doctor recommended.