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Hospice News
JUNE 28, 2023
Hospice of the Chesapeake Appoints New CMO Maryland-based Hospice of the Chesapeake recently named Dr. Marny Fetzer as its new chief medical officer. Fetzer is currently system medical director for palliative care and hospice services at Illinois-based Ascension Health. He was previously medical director at Compassus since 2017.
Hospice News
MARCH 25, 2024
What led you to hospice, and how has your law enforcement background informed your leadership approach? I worked in Phoenix at the sheriff’s office from 1976 to 2012. It comes with hiring the right medical directors and clinicians to make sure patients are eligible.
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Hospice News
MARCH 24, 2025
The model uses information gathered from a patients genome to plan for care, treatment and services, and to some extent, predict a likely health trajectory, according to the National Human Genome Research Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health. Between 2012 and 2019, only 6.8% I take it beyond genetics.
Hospice News
JANUARY 3, 2025
An OIG study of hospice billing claims submitted during 2012 found that 31% of the GIP claims that providers submitted to CMS were inappropriately billed to the tune of an estimated $268 million that year alone. The industry will also likely see efforts continue to combat fraud, including the aforementioned audits and medical reviews.
GeriPal
MARCH 20, 2025
Should these patients qualify for medical aid in dying medications? Hope is a palliative care doc and hospice medical director at Evergreen Health up near Seattle, Washington. Who do you give informed consent to? And is there a middle path to provide some degree of comfort while also hastening the end of life?
Pallimed
SEPTEMBER 12, 2022
By 2007, the Washington State Agency Medical Directors Group (AMDG), which included several eventual PROP members (23), published an “Interagency Guideline on Opioid Dosing for Chronic Non-Cancer Pain (26) that introduced the concept of hard dosing thresholds for opioid analgesics, which was later incorporated into the 2016 Guideline (2, 3).
Pallimed
SEPTEMBER 17, 2021
Chou had originally announced his intention to help influence opioid policy in a 2011 article that he co-authored with PROP’s founders (5), and he was a bold signatory to PROP’s 2012 Petition to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to change opioid labeling (6; See Figures 1a and 1b: First page and signatory page.)
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