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

Home Care Pulse

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. If you want to learn more, check out our webinar, Prepping for Pending Audits: Hospice Eligibility in 2023.

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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.

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

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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).

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How Long COVID Impacts Healthcare Workers

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Long COVID Presents Physical, Psychological Challenges. Subclinical anxiety and depression may be present — not on the level of a medical disorder, but enough to undermine a return to work. That tends to be between 5% to 30% [of patients]. They vary because we don’t have a universal definition of long COVID.”.