While I was participating in an interprofessional course being taught at my university, I came across an article by Thomas Bodenheimer, MD, and Christine Sinsky, MD, that expanded on the goals of the Triple Aim — improving patient experience,...
Palliative care and geriatric care share plenty in common, but the two fields aren’t always on the same page. It’s time for a better relationship to improve patient well-being toward the end of life, palliative specialists told colleagues at the...
The Department of Justice (DOJ) actively pursues fraud not only in the housing and mortgage industries but in other industries as well — including among health care providers. The False Claims Act (FCA) allows the federal government to recover funds...
A new study calls into question the accuracy of bipolar diagnoses in nursing home residents, since about three-quarters of residents with the diagnosis also had a previous dementia diagnosis.
Which patients are heading into dementia? Cognitive tests are one way to detect changes, but there is another that is less obvious: tests of how patients walk.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released a final rule on the Medicare physician fee schedule (PFS) for 2018 and other revisions to Medicare Part B policies. Policies in the final rule took effect on Jan. 1, 2018.
Many of Caring’s readers will recall the November letter to the New England Journal of Medicine (2017;377:2192–2193) that recounted the case of an unidentified 70-year-old man who presented, unconscious and very ill, to an emergency department and...
When Sen. John McCain announced his cancer diagnosis, the internet was flooded with messages of support and encouragement: “You can beat this!” “You’re a fighter!” “You’re a survivor.”
Cheryl Phillips, MD, CMDR, took the title of her keynote address for AMDA — the Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine’s 2018 Annual Conference from a Hopi prayer that speaks to the importance of having the knowledge, strength, and...
