Sentences with phrase «referring patients from»

Responsible for prescreening optical patients that are referred patients from Ophthalmologist.

Not exact matches

changes in government reimbursement for our services and / or new payment policies (including, for example, the expiration of the moratorium limiting the full application of the 25 Percent Rule that would reduce our Medicare payments for those patients admitted to a long term acute care hospital from a referring hospital in excess of an applicable percentage admissions threshold) may result in a reduction in net operating revenues, an increase in costs, and a reduction in profitability;

That is, while mental health professionals usually acknowledge referrals from social agencies and physicians and will in turn refer patients back, with clergy referrals the referral is not acknowledged, nor is referral back to the clergyman made.

NYC could have patients referred from parts of NJ and various New England states, though.

Continuity refers to a «coordinated and smooth progression of care from the patient's point of view» (Freeman 2007) and therefore woman - centredness is an important aspect in the delivery of continuity of care.

The findings suggest that structured interviews about difficulties at work could alert doctors to patients at risk of postpartum depression who might benefit from being referred to a psychiatrist for monitoring after they give birth.

The testimony of the law firm's founders, along with that of six other witnesses on Wednesday, was focused on federal charges that Silver improperly received more than $ 3 million from legal settlements and verdicts won by Weitz & Luxenberg on behalf of mesothelioma patients that Silver had referred to the firm.

Prosecutors hope Taub, one of their star witnesses, will prove to the jury that Silver pushed him to refer mesothelioma patients to Weitz & Luxenberg, the firm where Silver was of counsel and from where he collected portions of settlements while allegedly funneling state health care funds to Taub's research center at Columbia University.

Prosecutors said Silver directed money from another such pot, the HCRA fund, to support the work of a medical researcher who referred patients with a rare lung disease to the law firm where Silver was of counsel.

Ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has subpoenaed key documents from a doctor who allegedly took $ 500,000 worth of state cancer - research grants in exchange for referring patients to Silver's law firm, new...

Martins explained that this tactic centers around 81 - year - old Dr. Robert Taub, who told the jury he referred patients suffering from asbestos - related health problems to Silver's law firm in exchange for favors, including state - funded research grants.

Silver persuaded a physician to refer asbestos cancer patients to his law firm so it could seek multimillion - dollar settlements from personal injury lawsuits, a secret arrangement that allowed him to collect about $ 3 million in referral fees, Williams said.

Nor would the bill curtail the rights of mental health professionals from advocating such practices in the public square or from referring their minor patients to non-professional programs.

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No donation from the firm was forthcoming, according to former director Dr. Robert Taub, but state financing was — and the cancer researcher testified that he referred patients to Weitz & Luxenberg while getting the money, a favor he otherwise reserved for attorneys who had contributed directly.

Through a friend, Taub, who also holds a PhD from London University, met Silver, who demanded the doctor refer his patients to the law firm Weitz & Luxenberg, which specialized in tort cases involving asbestos - related diseases, according to prosecutors.

In return, that doctor allegedly referred patients to Weitz & Luxenberg law firm, from which Silver collected $ 3.2 million in referral fees over 11 years.

Beginning in 2010, the doctor began receiving funding from another law firm and referred patients there instead of Weitz.

The final results from an international clinical trial involving nearly 2,000 patients with Crohn's disease support the use of a new management strategy referred to as accelerated step - care as a best practice for the care of active Crohn's disease.

Disorders of consciousness can refer to a wide range of problems, ranging from a full - blown coma to a minimally conscious state in which patients may experience brief periods where they can communicate and follow instructions.

«It is important for healthcare professionals (including referring physicians, radiologists, and technologists) to be aware of radiation dose levels and risks from imaging tests for several reasons, including the ability to weigh the risks and benefits of tests, counsel patients on relevant risks, optimize protocols to minimize radiation dose, and select appropriate protocols to minimize radiation dose.»

Patients are referred to him from all of Eastern Canada.

«We did not see the same pattern of prescribing from psychiatrists or general practitioners,» said Lacasse, who suggests that OB / GYNs should refer their patients to mental health practitioners in such tragic and highly emotional situations.

Such speed and accuracy would represent a profound step forward in medical diagnoses and treatment, according to Zhang, noting that current health care is often lengthy as patients are referred from general physicians to specialists, consuming time and resources and delaying effective treatment.

The transplantation teams follow patients from initial evaluation through the life of the organ, and we have a detailed protocol to communicate progress and results to referring physicians.

Although phenotypic consequences, referred to here as biallelic effects, resulting from two different mutant alleles in compound heterozygote patients have been postulated, such effects have historically been difficult to distinguish from the influence of environment and genetic background.

Families travel to Mott from around the country, and patients are referred to us from every other pediatric oncology center in the state for second opinions, or for enrollment into one of our many innovative experimental clinical trials.

Many physicians feel no obligation to tell patients about legal but morally controversial medical treatments or to refer patients to doctors who do not object to those treatments, report researchers from the University of Chicago in the Feb. 8, 2007, issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

In my department there are a high number of patients with hand and upper limb problems referred to the rehabilitation from orthopaedic surgeons, plastic surgeons, rheumatologists, neurologists and hand surgeons.

We will coordinate with referring physicians, perform the transplant, and refer patients back once they have recovered from the transplant.

One hundred and forty patients were treated with CHOP - based chemotherapy in a historical cohort of Shanghai Ruijin Hospital from 1997 to 2011, and referred to as the training cohort.

Overall survival, commonly referred to as OS, is the length of time from either the date of diagnosis or the start of treatment that patients are still alive.

Methods: We performed a retrospective study in two French genetics laboratories by gathering all clinical and neuroimaging data from patients referred for a genetic diagnosis of CAA with an age of onset before 66 years and fulfilling the other Boston revised criteria.

Initially, my overseeing physician wasn't too happy with me for deviating from his protocols, but once he saw the results, he started recommending referring patients to the person I was seeing.

The «wildly speculative values» of 3 to 7 grams per day referred to by Cordain came from a cohort study published in 2011 in The Journal of the American Medical Association in which sodium intake of almost twenty - nine thousand patients with established cardiovascular disease or diabetes mellitus was estimated by twenty - four - hour urinary sodium excretion.26 During the follow - up of fifty - four months, the study found that daily sodium intake below three grams and above seven grams significantly increased cardiovascular risk.

Often referred to as «coconut milk», fresh coconut water is naturally free from germs and has many mineral salts, sugars, and medium - chain fatty acids that are capable of nourishing a patient who is incapable of consuming or digesting ordinary food.

They are harvested from the patient's own body, commonly referred as «adult stem cells» or Mesenchymal.

Back at the office, the dentist locks his daughter in her room to prevent her from eloping with the iceman, and takes out all his frustrations on his patients (whom he refers to as «buzzards» and «palookas»).

The change would bar the staff of reproductive health groups from providing abortions or referring patients to abortion clinics or risk losing federal family planning funds.

If you are a referring veterinarian and have a patient who could benefit from a neurological consultation, please contact us at [phone].

Our daytime emergency team is available at Memphis Veterinary Specialists during normal business hours to receive referred emergency patients from local veterinarians.

We require that you bring all information from any referring veterinarians, to include patient's medical history and any test results.

We can email temporary links from the PACS to veterinarians enabling them to view images of their referred patients.

Information from the referring doctor regarding the patient's medical history, previous treatments, lab work and x-rays will be helpful to our surgeons while treating your pet.

Appointments We see patients referred directly for radiation oncology by their general practitioner / family veterinarian or from our medical oncologists or other specialists.

Our ICU manages critical patients including patients referred from local veterinarians.

The Rascal Animal Hospital will provide over night emergency surgery (if a surgeon is available) for patients referred from OSU and MedVet that can not wait until the next day for surgery.

Many of these patients are referred from veterinarians throughout Texas and the region, so that they may receive the benefits of the unique expertise and diagnostic and therapeutic technology offered by the Small Animal Hospital.

However, when the doctor believes that the patient would benefit from the advanced training of a board - certified veterinary ophthalmologist, your doctor may refer you to a veterinary ophthalmologist.

The front office staff for our Equine and Nemo Farm Animal Hospitals expertly handle all business related to patient admission and discharge, fielding calls from clients and referring veterinarians, and hospital billing.