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

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In September 2021, Pallimed published our second commentary, which focused on the astonishing disclosure of an important conflict-of-interest (COI) by Dr. Roger Chou (5), who co-authored the 2016 Guideline, calling its integrity into question (4, 5). A moral panic can effectively sway public opinion to force a shift in public policy (9-11).

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U.S. Senators Reintroduce Telehealth Bill, Would Make Permanent Hospice Recertification Waiver

Hospice News

The waiver pertaining to routine home care, which ended with the PHE on May 11, was not mentioned in the bill text. The first version of the bill was introduced in 2016. The CONNECT Act would make that flexibility permanent. The history of the CONNECT Act extends before the pandemic.

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Fourth Season Episode 11: A conversation with Anthony Balistreri on his journey to jail chaplaincyFourth Season Episode 11:

Hospice Chaplaincy

Chaplain Anthony is currently in his ongoing assignment as Chaplain in the Racine County Sheriff’s Office, which he has held since he established their Chaplaincy Counsel in 2016. In this position, he has established healthy, constructive […]

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Comfort Care Homes Build Bridges to Hospice for Underserved Patients

Hospice News

Hildegard of Bingen, the facility is a former convent that admitted its first resident in 2016 after undergoing about a year of renovations. . Also, the depletion of a family’s financial resources is a greater predictor of aggressive treatment at the end of life than patient preferences or demographic factors, a 2016 study concluded. .

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Advance Care Planning Billing Rules Impede Equitable Access

Hospice News

Across 150 different studies, white adults represented nearly two-thirds (65.1%) of roughly 800,000 individuals who had completed advance directives between 2011 and 2016. The 272 participants polled in the 2022 research included clinicians and administrators from 11 health systems nationwide, among other key stakeholders.

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Housing Insecurity a Threat to Seniors, Poses a Risk for Hospice Providers

Hospice News

The depletion of a family’s financial resources is a greater predictor of aggressive treatment at the end of life than patient preferences or demographic factors, a 2016 study concluded. million renters and 11 million homeowners older than 65 will be spending more than 30% on housing expenses by 2035, according to the U.S. For about 8.6

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The Case for Integrating Social Determinants Into Palliative Care

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For example, 2016 research found that close to 3.6 In the VBID palliative care design, they’ve got 11 elements of a palliative care model. Home-based palliative care could reduce societal health care costs by $103 billion within the next 20 years, the nonprofit economic research group Florida TaxWatch indicated in a 2019 report.