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DMPAG & TCET: Acronyms for therapists to know

Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

Telephone evaluation and management services: CPT codes to describe telephone evaluation and management services have been available since 2008. Medicare still currently considers these codes to be non-covered. Relative values are assigned to these services. However, private payers may pay for these services. See a theme here?

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GeriPal 300th Episode: Ask Me Anything Hot Ones Style

GeriPal

He wants to know what do you guys think about the effect of private equity on hospice and long-term care? She asks If you were the Czar of Geriatric care and were handed $7 trillion- Alex: Whoa, $7 trillion Anne: To improve the health of seniors in the United States, how would you spend it? Eric: Not on amyloid drugs.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

GeriPal

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” Diane: Huge.

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