FDA Law Blog

JANUARY 6, 2022

In general, EKRA prohibits, knowingly and willfully, soliciting, receiving, paying or offering kickbacks in exchange for referring to, inducing a referral to, or using the services of a recovery home, clinical treatment facility, or laboratory. The Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act (“EKRA”). 18 U.S.C. § 18 US.C. § 220(a) (emphasis added).

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Lab Testing Individual Referral Patient-Centered 40

Edge Family Medicine

APRIL 10, 2025

Establishing a long-term relationship with a primary care provider can make a profound difference in how effectively your health is managed over time. Why Primary Care Relationships Matter A trusted PCP gets to know you — not just your chart. Coordinated Specialist Referrals Your PCP is your guide through the larger healthcare system.

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GeriPal

JUNE 12, 2025

And sort of a few years ago, we would sometimes see referrals a bit later than we would have liked. We are Seeing referrals at an earlier time point, especially at a point that I feel that I can really help a patient. Is it normally the oncologist who’s making the referrals to you or do they come from people outside of oncology?

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Patient-Centered Referral Patients IT 102

Concierge Choice Physicians

APRIL 23, 2025

No patients are dismissed, and referral networks remain intact. He creates a relationship with patients that allows their participation in determining treatment options. For more information, please visit www.ccpmd.com. Dr. Condrell launched his program because of the high demand for his attention and support.

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Permanente Medicine

JUNE 3, 2025

I just listened to the one on national cancer care that we’re doing, which was very informative and pretty impressive. The second thing that is different is access to information. The patient reached out to me and asked what I thought or recommended because I had built that relationship with that patient, I had built that trust.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Medical 52

GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

In one corner, weighing in at decades of experience, well known for heavy hits of bedside assessments, strong patient-family relationships, and a knockout punch of interdisciplinary collaboration, we have in-person palliative care consults. We would make referrals to psycho oncology. But watch out! Alex 01:06 Yeah, go in person.

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Telehealth Patient-Centered IT Patients 105

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Panelists Carmen Quatman and Katie Quatman-Yates have no relationships to disclose. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. They may not think to ask or provide that information. Sometimes it’s unskilled things.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

And it’s with this information from the geriatric assessment that we can really create interventions, and so that’s something that Alex and I strongly believe that we should move forward with. We have the chemo talks tool posted, so people can go there and click and immediately get the information about this. Mazie: Yes.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 129

GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

The obstacles hindering referrals to palliative care services. We also take a dive into these 2 articles that Connie first authored: Palliative care in nursing homes: A qualitative study on referral criteria and implications for research and practice. Some will have stronger relationships with hospice. Connie 19:46 Yeah.

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Nurse Practitioner Referral Consulting Board-Certified 78

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Panelists Katie Fitzgerald Jones and Jessica Merlin have no relationships to disclose. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. But the cancer specific databases just don’t have this information. Katie: Yeah.

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Illness Patient-Centered Screening IT 136

GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

We discuss the principles of harm reduction, social determinants of health, and trauma informed care. By the time he got into us, the tumor grew, he had experienced, he was experiencing significant pain and so trauma, informed care and building a relationship with him was such a big part of the care. On bias and trauma as you.

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Healthcare IT Community Illness 100

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Because how that is approached can have lasting effects on relationships, unfortunately. I can get you guys that information. And then they can transfer that information to the specialist. ” So a lot of times it’s a referral back to their primary care, to a specialist-. Eric: Yeah. I think I get why.

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IT Family Families Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Panelists Elissa Kozlov and Desiree Azizoddin have no relationships to disclose. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. Do we have any information on that, do you know?

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Mental Health Patient-Centered Illness Screening 122

New South Family Medicine and MedSpa

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Instead, they establish a direct patient-provider relationship, for a flat fee. Specialty referrals can be reduced or eliminated. Choose a professional who is going to listen, is qualified to perform the treatments, has a close relationship with their on-site physician, and will always keep your best interests a top priority.

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GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Kirsten Engel, Sarah Gillespie-Heyman, Brittany Waterman, & Amy Johnson have no relationships to disclose. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 109

GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

If it’s continuing and it’s getting worse and maybe they have some swelling in the legs, there are some subtle findings on the echo, but really think for a second, could this be this really common cardiovascular condition, echocardiogram, maybe even a referral to a cardiologist? Eric 14:10 Yeah.

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Primary Care Patient-Centered IT Patients 113

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

Alex Practice-PC Program Information: UCSF’s Practice-PC program is now accepting applications for the 2023-2024 year. Lexy: The domains were meaning and purpose, relationships, transcendence and peace, and self-worth and identity, and we developed those. That’s a lot of information [inaudible 00:35:43], but I share some of that.

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IT Patient-Centered Family Families 99

GeriPal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

But we know from previous studies that a lot of older adults actually want this information, but might not feel comfortable bringing it up. So yes, it’s imperfect and we recognize that, and we’re always clinically making decisions that are based on imperfect information. Eric: Well, let me push you on that.

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IT Clinic Screening Patients 95

Family Medicine Initiative

APRIL 10, 2024

This graph illustrates that the benefit of long-term GP-patient relationships is even dose-dependent (longer GP-patient-relationship = lower risk of dying prematurely): Why do long-term GP-patient relationships improve health and reduce costs? 11 , 13 Over time, GPs come to know their patients well.

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Family Physician Family Families GP 130

GeriPal

MARCH 20, 2025

And we got this as a hospice referral, and could we, you know, take her on and support her in hospice? Who do you give informed consent to? Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Hope Wechkin, Thaddeus Pope, & Josh Briscoe have no relationships to disclose. Past self or current self?

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Medical 88

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

And now when I think about the clinic at Duke, when we’re really running on all cylinders, we can get ourselves up to a five, six, seven week wait for a new palliative care referral. It’s about establishing a relationship and rapport. I don’t know if we captured where the hospice referral came from.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 119

GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

I’ve been on a quest to build those services and support so that people can make true, informed decisions for themselves and their families. We’re selling objectivity, information, independence and choice. And that referral can be done in real time, a soft handoff. Eric: Great, thank you both.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

It was information about our ACP facilitator. Ideally the conversation would happen before, but also clinicians were able to make referrals to facilitators. So we have to collect what information we have available from Health Information exchange and electronic health records. We were agnostic on the timing.

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Primary Care IT Clinic Patient-Centered 79

GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

There is a patient caregiver relationship that evolves over time, and there’s less of a focus on intimacy in that relationship. We have a lot of loss of libido, loss of physical intimacy as a result of the changing dynamic in the relationship. So cancer.net has information on this. I have as well.

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