GeriPal

JUNE 12, 2025

But two, a very close relationship with potentially the palliative care physician or the individual who’s Sort of managing their pain, because the simulation itself can be 20 to 30 minutes of lying in that specific treatment position. So we need to have a discussion upfront about how we’re managing the patient’s pain.

Patient-Centered 102

Patient-Centered Referral Patients IT 102

Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 13, 2025

This continuity of care is especially important for managing chronic conditions like diabetes, hypertension, and heart disease—conditions that respond best to consistent monitoring and adjustment of treatment plans. We work with most major insurance plans and offer transparent pricing options for self-pay patients.

Family Physician 100

Family Physician Preventive Care Preventative Care Family 100

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Have you had difficulty managing a particular type of cancer pain? Janet Abrahm is one of the world’s experts in pain and symptom management for patients with cancer joins us to talk about (among other things): Ketamine for hyperalgesia and allodynia, how to treat dissociative side effects. Summary Transcript Summary. Janet: Thank you.

Management 101

Management IT Patients Families 101

GeriPal

OCTOBER 24, 2024

If you believe the evidence for efficacy to manage symptoms like neuropathic pain, how do you even start to think about recommending these products to patients? And you could say the same thing about insurance companies. Insurance companies will pay for a lot of drugs that have really not a whole lot of evidence at a lot of costs.

Medical 98

Medical IT Patient-Centered Healthcare 98

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Eric: But before we jump into talking to your patients about driving retirement cessation, let’s talk about what is the role of the healthcare professional in this at all? Certainly my bias is that healthcare professionals really do have a role in this discussion. And what should we be doing as far as assessment?

Families 102

Families Family IT Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

In particular, we talk about Katie’s and Jesica’s paper in NEJM titled “ Juggling Two Full-Time Jobs — Methadone Clinic Engagement and Cancer Care ,” which described the difficulty in managing cancer pain and methadone for opioid use disorder. Maybe we’ll get to talking about that today. Jessie, welcome back to GeriPal. Should they?

Illness 136

Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 136

GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

Management of chronic pain in the elderly: focus on transdermal buprenorphine. And how am I going to manage their pain? And then part of our role as folks in palliative care who as Katie mentioned, really try to help folks manage distress around serious illness. Two great videos on buprenorphine initiation. Transcript.

Illness 102

Illness Patient-Centered IT Patients 102

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Why the field is moving away from prescribing methadone to bupenorphine; how to manage patients prescribed methadone for opioid use disorder who then develop serious and painful illness – should we/can we split up the once daily dosing to achieve better pain control? When to consider bupenorphine vs methadone? That’s what we do.

Patients 72

Patients Clinic Patient-Centered Illness 72

GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

And so I tried to get her actually to pain management, and I couldn’t. Pain management wouldn’t come to the facility, and she was bedbound. And so it really got me interested in how we improve symptom management. Not just pain, but symptom management, then for people that are in a nursing home and that.

Referral 78

Referral Nurse Practitioner Consulting Board-Certified 78

GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

If you own and operate a nursing home and you’re taking people in, and you’re admitting new residents, what’s their accountability for how they manage compensation and quality delivery? Goal five is focused on quality insurance, so designing a more effective and responsive system of quality assurance. Eric: Okay.

Finance 95

Finance Board-Certified IT Provider 95

GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

For example, putting the healthy food at the back of the grocery store is sludge; making an applicant for health insurance climb the flight of stairs to the office – weeding out those less fit – is also sludge. But you know, we managed to work it through and people got used to it and throughout the duration of the trial.

Patient-Centered 116

Patient-Centered Hospital IT Illness 116

GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

Healthcare, just the way healthcare is structured, that’s not something that’s feasible unless there’s a specific symptom management need that allows for more care, but just to provide simple care doesn’t exist. I have a question about the rule of doulas in states where medical aid in dying is legal.

Provider 117

Provider Illness IT Healthcare 117

GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

But if the services that they require aren’t able to be provided within, they have Health Net as their insurance, so we contract with specialists in the community. And the dad just totally lost control, major anger management issues. Everybody has a primary care doctor, a primary care nurse, a team.

Families 132

Families Family IT Community 132

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. It was designed to really balance what Medicaid at the time was to provide nursing homes and Medicare is obviously health insurance. Eric: And Susan? You go back home.

Community 89

Community Nurse Practitioner Provider IT 89

GeriPal

AUGUST 1, 2024

But at any age, like, as Emily said, it is so important to pay attention to nutrition and healthy eating because it’s not just about, oh, chronic disease prevention or even treatment and management. But if your patient is not able to do those things, I wouldn’t say don’t have insurer.

IT 116

IT Diabetes Chronic Disease Patient-Centered 116

GeriPal

AUGUST 22, 2024

And then another, which was released under the Bush administration by a council with a different sort of philosophical Benton worldview which still managed to come to the same conclusion in support of a brain based definition, death. Insurance companies. Healthcare provide. Healthcare companies. Icus for beds.

IT 113

IT Families Family Patient-Centered 113

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. That never happens in CMS and other health insurance. And I was terrified. Diane: Huge.

Patient-Centered 125

Patient-Centered IT Families Family 125

GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

So, and actually, all of this is actually document, I think what you guys are looking for is more practical advice on sort of management. So let’s use the one that I prefer to do, because I know this drug, that’s not how insurance companies work. Aries, why don’t you start and starting doses. Areej 34:19 Yeah, sure.

Illness 130

Illness IT Physicals Patients 130

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

By the year 2000, everyone will be in a Medicare managed care plan.” For our patients, it really is much more patient-centered to able to do symptom management, and to do IV antibiotics, and all those things at home, instead of having them come in. What is it about my insurance, that does not cover me staying in this hospital?”

Hospital 115

Hospital Patient-Centered Supply Chain IT 115