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

Pallimed

In November 2003, the Orlando Sentinel published a series of articles on OxyContin, exemplifying the media’s moral panic about opioids (12). This unexpectedly and undesirably increased health insurers’ medication costs, including Medicare and Medicaid (22). Orlando Sentinel, October 19, 2003. Orlando Sentinel, December 5, 2003.

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It’s a Long Way From Here to There: Advanced Healthcare Practitioners, EMTALA’s Call Coverage Requirements, and Rural Hospitals

Healthcare Law Insights blog

Under EMTALA, each Medicare-participating hospital with an emergency department (ED) must screen every person coming to the ED for an emergency medical condition (EMC), and either stabilize or appropriately transfer each patient found to have an EMC. . See 42 C.F.R. j)(1) [xiv] EMTALA SOM, Tag A-2404

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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

GeriPal

So we realized that we had a series of cross-sectional studies in San Francisco from the early 1990s to 2003. We looked at it and realized that in the early 1990s, 11% of folks were 50 and over, and by 2003, 37% were. But they would ask a bunch of questions. Yeah, that was adjusting for the age of first homeless. So really interesting.