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Agape Care’s New M&A VP, New CEO Takes Helm at Community Hospice

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Agape Care Group Appoints M&A VP. Alex Ferguson has stepped into the role of senior vice president of mergers and acquisitions at Agape Care Group. The South Carolina-based hospice and palliative care provider is a portfolio company of the private equity firm Ridgemont Equity Partners.

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Undisclosed Conflicts of Interest by Physicians Creating the CDC Opioid Prescribing Guidelines: An Epilogue

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The new Guideline does not apply to patients with pain from sickle cell disease, cancer, or those receiving palliative care and end-of-life care (2, 19), and it cites other clinical guidelines as providing guidance for managing those patients (21-24). Dr. Kollas provided testimony at a 2004 Congressional Hearing on OxyContin.

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Undisclosed Conflicts of Interest by Physicians Creating the CDC Opioid Prescribing Guidelines: Bad Faith or Incompetence?

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Responding to an underfunded Medicaid program in 2003, Washington State’s Prescription Drug Preferred Drug List “steered people with state-subsidized health care — Medicaid patients, injured workers and state employees — to methadone” as a money-saving choice versus other opioid analgesics (23-25). February 9, 2004, Winter Park, FL.

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Roger Chou’s Undisclosed Conflicts of Interest: How the CDC’s 2016 Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain Lost Its Clinical and Professional Integrity

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Franklin also served on the Washington State Agency Medical Directors Group (AMDG) via the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries (9). About the Authors Lead author, Chad Kollas , serves as the Medical Director for Palliative and Supportive Care at the Orlando Health Cancer Institute in Orlando, FL.

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