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Telehealth Restrictions May Limit Opioid Use Treatment

March 20, 2025

Weill Cornell Medicine researchers found that restricting telehealth prescriptions for opioid use disorder could keep thousands from accessing buprenorphine, a medication that helps people recover from addiction. The study, published March 3 in JAMA Network Open, warns that requiring...

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Physicians Who Provide Primary Care in US Nursing Homes: Characteristics and Care Patterns

February 26, 2025

Residents receiving long-term care in nursing homes are medically complex. Half of these residents require assistance with at least four activities of daily life while also often dealing with dementia or hypertension. As such, primary care physicians and advanced practitioners...

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Photos of Dr. Hye-Young Jung, a nursing home patient and nurse, and a wheelchair

Association of Mobile Stroke Unit Care and Spending, Utilization, and Death in NYC

February 3, 2025

Early treatment for acute stroke has been shown to improve patient outcomes. In 2016, NewYorkPresbyterian Hospital, in collaboration with Weill Cornell Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, and the Fire Department of the City of New York ...

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Photos of Dr. Dhruv Khullar, Dr. Amelia Bond, Dr. Rainu Kaushal, a mobile stroke unit, and a computer tomography scan

Communities of Color Face Greater Barriers in Accessing Opioid Medications for Pain Management

January 24, 2025

Non-white communities had significantly less access to opioid medications commonly prescribed for moderate to severe pain than white communities over the decade beginning in 2011, according to a study by Weill Cornell Medicine researchers.

The findings, published Jan. 21 in Pain, stretched across all socioeconomic groups, and suggest...

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Medicare Rules May Reduce Prescription Steering

January 10, 2025

Weill Cornell Medicine researchers have found that pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs)—organizations that negotiate access to medicines for most patients in the United States—steer patients to use their own pharmacies. However, these pharmacies appear less used in Medicare than in other market segments. These PBMs are part of integrated health care conglomerates that own insurance companies and pharmacies, which may create conflicts of interest.

The ...

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