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District Court Interprets EKRA

FDA Law Blog

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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District Court Interprets EKRA

FDA Law Blog

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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Chronic disease management among people with serious mental illness across rural, small urban, and metropolitan settings [Health care disparities]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: People with serious mental illness (SMI) are at increased risk of complications and earlier death from comorbid chronic diseases, compared with patients without mental illness. Referral to and/or visit with an ophthalmologist was most common in metropolitan settings, with similarly lower values in small urban and rural.