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Is Hospice Losing Its Way: A Podcast with Ira Byock and Joseph Shega

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Reading Ira’s article, it essentially was the VITAS Medical Director job description. Lauren: And looking in the Medicare data, you cannot figure out when a hospice changed ownership. If you do good quality patient care, I believe the other naturally follows. Most of the time it works out.

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Telemedicine in a Post-Pandemic World: Joe Rotella, Brooke Calton, Carly Zapata

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Advocate for the CONNECT for Health Act, which would permanently expand access to telehealth for Medicare beneficiaries: [link] Much more on this podcast, including puzzling out who the characters in Space Oddity by David Bowie might represent in an extended analogy to telehealth. Welcome back to GeriPal, Brooke. Brooke: Thank you.