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Voices: ??Dr. Khai Nguyen, National Medical Director, Geriatrician, CHAP

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This article is sponsored by CHAP. In this Voices interview, Hospice News sits down with Dr. Khai Nguyen , National Medical Director, Geriatrician for CHAP, to talk about the age-friendly care movement. It has also helped me serve our partners in this space as a National Medical Director for CHAP.

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Terminal Anorexia Patients Hitting Referral, Regulatory Barriers to Hospice Care

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Patients with eating disorders can face an array of challenges that impede access to health care and pose risk of negative care experiences, according to Dr. Jonathan Treem, regional medical director of palliative care and hospice at Mid-Atlantic Permanente Medical Group | Kaiser Permanente. Data point to this trend as well.

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Voices: Deanna Heath, VP of Hospice and Palliative Care Services, KanTime

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This article is sponsored by KanTime. Hospice would likely change from the Medical Director-led IDT team with standard COPS, to a landscape of payer-source-driven rules for each patient.

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

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This commentary, the final in our trilogy, expands on these articles to quantify and clarify the extent of Chou’s COI. In November 2003, the Orlando Sentinel published a series of articles on OxyContin, exemplifying the media’s moral panic about opioids (12). opioid policy.

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Improving Nursing Home Quality: Jasmine Travers, Alice Bonner, Isaac Longobardi, and Mike Wasserman

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But if you want to learn more, check out these links: The report by NASEM titled “ The National Imperative to Improve Nursing Home Quality ” The website for the Moving Forward We will also link to the JAGS articles co-authored by seven committee members that focus on specific recommendations of the NASEM report when they get published (stay tuned).

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OIG Audits of Hospice Eligibility Are Coming in FY 2023–Are You Ready?

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Article Contents: – Introduction. Article Contents: Michah’s Story Begins. The intake team will be instructed to gather data from other medical providers and present it to the hospice medical director for her review prior to scheduling an admission. Print Article. – Michah’s Story Begins.

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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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Lewis PhD, Beverly Schechtman and Carrie Judy “I'm present. Franklin also served on the Washington State Agency Medical Directors Group (AMDG) via the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries (9). Kollas MD, Terri A. Uh … I do have a conflict. They had reviewed potential nonfinancial conflicts carefully (e.g.,

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