Physician's Weekly

JUNE 22, 2025

Hispanic), 64% (95% CI, 59-69%) reported social risks in 1 or more domains, including food insecurity (22%), financial hardship (28%), housing instability (14%), transportation needs (9%), education and employment (9%), and discrimination (41%). 10.2]) and cost-related medication non-adherence (OR, 11.8 [2.7-52.1]),

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Transportation IT Insurance 52

GeriPal

JUNE 12, 2025

Eric 00:42 So on this podcast, we’re gonna be talking about what every healthcare provider should know about radiation oncology. But I think where it ends up causing problems is just if they’re going to have many sessions, transport to and from, and just the overall cost that can be essentially not feasible for the hospice.

Patient-Centered 102

Patient-Centered Referral Patients IT 102

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Emmy: Because if you’ve got other ways to get things delivered or you have good public transportation or you have a lot of family around, that’s a very different kind of calculus than if you live on your ranch and there’s no way to otherwise get to town, and there’s nobody else around. Is this our role? Emmy: Yeah.

IT 102

IT Family Families Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

We could look at cancer registry linked with… Like, I see here Medicare type big data sets, but then you have to rely on insurance claims and that’s going to underestimate SUD when most people aren’t getting treatment and it’s a tough nut to crack. I mean, there is so much substance use stigma in healthcare.

Illness 136

Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 136

GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

I feel like, you know, even before the pandemic, certainly during the pandemic, we talk a lot about the grit and the resilience of healthcare and healthcare workers and, you know, the amazing drive that they have and the amazing ability that they have to connect with people. It was all covered by my mom’s insurance.

IT 107

IT Community Patients Families 107

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Remember, there’s an active transport metabolism for gabapentin, if we’re nerding out here. When you get higher doses, it’s just not transported across the gut. Usually, if the patient doesn’t respond to 300 three times a day, insurance will let you give the pregabalin, because they’re generics now.

Management 101

Management IT Patients Families 101

GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

So it’s, you know, nursing homes are part of the healthcare sector, but they’re also part of the social care sector in the same building. If you have 100 beds in the building, 20 of them today might be rehabbed people who are there. Because when you’re on a SNF stay, hospice is also a part A.

Nurse Practitioner 78

Nurse Practitioner Referral Consulting Board-Certified 78