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The Hospice Action Network Presents 2023 Angel Awards Honorees

NHPCO

New this year is the addition of the first-ever “Courageous Conversations Award” to be presented, when merited, to a standout individual who has inspired and educated the public on the value of hospice. President and the first known President to utilize the Medicare Hospice Benefit.

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

Pallimed

This unexpectedly and undesirably increased health insurers’ medication costs, including Medicare and Medicaid (22). Despite transparency concerns and worries about conflicted interests on the part of the Guideline’s creators by key stakeholders (36-39), CDC published its 2016 Guideline on March 18, 2016 (2-4).

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