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How Fraudulent Hospices Evade Regulators

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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has introduced a series of new regulations to combat fraud during the past two years. A key component of the enhanced oversight includes a medical review of claims before a Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC) will pay them. Other agencies such as the FBI and the U.S.

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Caring for the Unrepresented: A Podcast with Joe Dixon, Timothy Farrell, Yael Zweig

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So it defines unrepresented as someone who lacks decisional capacity to provide informed consent to a particular medical treatment. But like, if you look at a surrogate document, it walks you through step by step, the hierarchy of decision makers, but also, like, how that surrogate should be making decisions. Because if you.

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

GeriPal

People diagnosed in the past 12 months, for example, so our… I think this was published in JAMA Oncology because it’s novel and we don’t have a lot of information about prevalence, but our estimates weren’t particularly precise because of our small sample sizes. It’s not well-documented. Devon: Right.

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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 unexpectedly and undesirably increased health insurers’ medication costs, including Medicare and Medicaid (22). Thus, we envision creating an ethics-based, education-focused informed consent process that allows patients to weigh treatment risks versus potential benefits collaboratively to enhance opioid prescribing safety (165).

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Jumpstarting Goals of Care Convos: Erin Kross, Bob Lee, and Ruth Engelberg

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They found a difference of 4% in documented goals of care discussions. At its heart, it’s always been a brief, hopefully one page document that can be delivered to clinicians and or patients to get them thinking about topics related to goals of care discussions. So that then closes by saying, “Please document a short note.

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