Family Physicians of St. Joseph

MARCH 14, 2018

From the Detroit News If there’s any more argument to be made about getting third-party insurers — whether government or private insurance — out of most routine health care, here’s one. 6, 2017, from a lab affiliated with Covenant HealthCare hospital system of Saginaw. The hospital’s total bill for 16 tests: $1,501.49.

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FDA Law

JANUARY 5, 2023

To date, regulatory enforcement litigation focused on actual or imminent patient harm has taken a backseat to cybersecurity as FDA continues to update and implement its oversight framework. Remarks at the November AFDO/RAPS Combination Products Summit highlight the complexities of connected combination products.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

AUGUST 25, 2020

Hardeman on police brutality and a public health agenda 24:00 Understanding this moment (COVID-19 and George Floyd) 29:00 The #SayHerName campaign and police brutality’s effects on women 33:00 Emmett and Mamie Till 44:00 Policing in healthcare settings 54:00 What can we start doing tomorrow?

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FDA Law

JANUARY 6, 2022

Wasserstein — “EKRA” refers to the Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act, which was part of the Substance Use – Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment for Patients and Communities Act of 2018. These lab tests are performed for physicians, substance abuse treatment centers and other types of organizations.

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FDA Law

JANUARY 6, 2022

Wasserstein — “EKRA” refers to the Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act, which was part of the Substance Use – Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment for Patients and Communities Act of 2018. These lab tests are performed for physicians, substance abuse treatment centers and other types of organizations.

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ABIM

JUNE 11, 2025

Representatives from the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) joined for a portion of the meeting*. Expanding ABIM’s engagement with stakeholder communities such as early career physicians, specialty societies and patient-focused organizations.

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GeriPal

MARCH 2, 2023

The FDA-approved indications for gabapentin are only for treating patients with partial seizures or postherpetic neuralgia. valproic acid and gabapentin), in nursing homes, particularly patients with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. There are a lot of reasons that may explain the massive increase in use of these drugs.

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ABIM

JUNE 24, 2025

Expanding ABIM’s engagement with stakeholder communities such as early career physicians, specialty societies and patient-focused organizations. Preliminary data show that 90% of respondents are clinically active with the majority in hospital- or system-owned practice (38%), academic faculty practice (32.9%) and private practice (26.8%).

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

And, who within ASPE guides aging policy and connects policy to every day health challenges experienced by patients and clinicians? For the policy buffs and policy newbies out there, we hope this podcast is an essential primer to government in action. So NIA and further funded this coordinating center that we call Clin-STAR.

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GeriPal

MAY 12, 2022

Alex: We are honored to welcome Dr. Rajagopal, who goes by Raj, who is the author of Walk with the Weary: Lessons in Humanity in Healthcare. So, we formed this organization called Pain and Palliative Care Society in the Northern Kerala city of Kalakkad based in the government medical college. It is not only palliative care. Eric: Yeah.

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Tiny Physician

MARCH 30, 2022

Archana Sharma committed suicide because of the harassment by the bystanders of the patient who died at her hospital. However, she found herself in trouble when one of her patients, whom she treated at her hospital, died due to postpartum hemorrhage (bleeding from the birth canal after delivery).

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

staff training in person centered care). Sheryl: Largely the people who live there as opposed to government funds. I mean, people who used to be in hospitals are now with quicker DRGs. Another one had to do with the category of medical and mental healthcare providers and care. toenail trimming) to things in between (e.g.

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

Michaels Hospital in Toronto, and health justice activist. Alex End Well Talk [link] Resources on the PEACH Program Program Review Paper A recent publication in Longwoods Healthcare Quarterly reviewing the PEACH model. Michael’s Hospital in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. Have you thought about that?

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GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

I know you’ve been a strong advocate for nursing home patients particularly in California. There have been multiple subsequent government reports on nursing home care, most recently was about eight, nine years ago from the OIG. Mike: Electronic record keeping, Eric, is the government’s gift to defense attorneys.

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GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

But, should we as clinicians care about the social lives of our patients? Are there meaningful ways of assessing loneliness and social isolation in clinical settings and connecting patients with interventions? Has kept me interested, the patient experience and the older adults in the community, their experience.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

In further contrast to the United States, MAID in Canada is almost entirely administered by a clinician, whereas in the United States patients must self administer. Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome Sonu Gaind, who is a Chief of psychiatry and professor at the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center at the University of Toronto.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

And Bill Andereck is still haunted by the decision he made to have the police break down the door to rescue his patient who attempted suicide in the 1980s, as detailed in this essay in the Cambridge Quarterly of HealthCare Ethics. And he’s also chaired the California Pacific Medical Center’s ethics committee since 1985.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome Ruth McDermott-Levy, who is Professor in the College of Nursing at Villanova University and Co-Director of the Mid-Atlantic Center for Children’s Health and the Environment. So the things that Karl mentioned, but also access to healthcare during a disaster or even heat. Ruth: Thank you.

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GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

But from our clinical work, many of us are familiar with people with dementia who experience sudden shocks to their health, think hip fracture, think hospitalization for pneumonia. And the government can do something about that?!? And hospitalization for pneumonia is like a medical event. worsening prognosis. Lauren 12:34 Yeah.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

The idea was to create a robust community-based infrastructure that could help older adults succeed in their homes and communities, whether they were healthy, how to keep them healthy or they were at imminent risk of emergency room visits, hospitalizations, or nursing home placements. And that’s critical. Eric: Yeah.

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Doctors for America

MAY 30, 2025

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Doctors for America PO Box: 21161 2300 18th St NW Lbby Washington, DC 20009-9996 May 30, 2025 Coalition Acts to Protect Pregnant Patients’ Federal Right to Emergency Care, Including Abortion By Intervening in a Federal Challenge to EMTALA, Doctors for America Seeks to Protect Health and Lifesaving Care WASHINGTON, D.C.

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Maine Academy of Family Physicians

JUNE 21, 2024

This bill proposes to improve the healthcare decision-making and treatment process for prescriptions and testing by reducing the pre-approval (prior authorization) burdens placed on healthcare providers by health insurance carriers. Progress was made on reducing the burden of prior authorizations by the passage of LD 796.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

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.”

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GeriPal

AUGUST 22, 2024

Knowing I was interested in neurology and had opportunities to observe brain death determination in the hospital. Patients families want to know whether their loved one has died. Doctors want to know whether the patient has died. You know, when is it okay to harvest organs from a patient? Healthcare provide.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

MARCH 23, 2025

This post first appeared on March 6, 2018, during the first Trump administration's failed attempt to eliminate the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). Now the Department of Government Efficiency is trying again, threatening 90% staff reductions that would decimate the agency.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

APRIL 25, 2025

Before becoming a core faculty member at the Lancaster General Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program , I spent more than 15 years teaching in Georgetown's family medicine department. This is where the federal government must step up. Most years, two or three times as many students matched into Anesthesiology or Orthopedic Surgery.

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GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

Clinicians could care for patients across state lines, could prescribe opioids without in person visits, could bill at higher rates for telemedicine than previous to the pandemic. Many patients benefited, not only those isolating due to covid, but also patients in rural areas, patients who are homebound, and many others.

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Doctors for America

JUNE 23, 2025

As a nonpartisan organization of thousands of physicians and medical trainees committed to health justice, we bear witness to the trauma these policies inflict on our patients, our communities, and the healthcare system as a whole. Bar ICE presence in hospitals, clinics, and health centers without a judicial warrant.

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Physician's Weekly

JULY 1, 2025

TUESDAY, July 1, 2025 (HealthDay News) — The Trump administration may cut off federal funding to hospitals that provide gender-related treatments to children and teens. Dr. Mehmet Oz , who now leads the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), said the goal is to protect children from “life-altering and experimental procedures.”

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Physician's Weekly

JULY 2, 2025

Maria is among what the federal government estimates are 2.6 without legal permission — along with the providers and community workers that help them — are anxiously weighing the benefits of pushing forward with Medi-Cal applications against the risks of discovery and deportation by the federal government.

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Physicians News Digest

APRIL 3, 2025

Helen Haskell’s 15-year-old son, Lewis, died after surgery in 2000 because weekend hospital staffers didn’t realize he was in shock. The episodes turned both women into advocates for patients and spurred research that made American health care safer. It also has published tools and guidelines to enhance patient safety.

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