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

Hospice News

Deanna Heath: I have worked in the post-acute space since 2003 with a focus in hospice. For the first time ever, the model will test the carve-in of the hospice benefit into Medicare Advantage with the provision of palliative care, transitional concurrent care and supplemental benefits — all spliced and bundled into the VBID model.

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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