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Empowering diabetes management through coordinated billing practices 

Health Prime

Even if it can seem unrelated, medical billing plays a massive role in managing diabetes. By encouraging best practices in medical billing, your practice can ensure financial performance optimization and better patient outcomes. Here are four reasons why diabetes billing can help you improve patient outcomes and enhance cash flow: 1.

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U.K. Lawmakers Back Assisted Dying Bill

Forbes Healthcare

have passed a controversial bill that would legalize assisted dying for terminally ill people deemed to be in the last months of their life. Lawmakers in the U.K.

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Bill Clinton Hospitalized With Flu, Influenza A Surges Throughout U.S.

Forbes Healthcare

Former President Bill Clinton was discharged from the hospital after being treated for the flu. Meanwhile, here's the latest from the CDC about influenza cases increasing

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Medicare Is Failing Patients: A New Bill Can Help Fix That

Forbes Healthcare

And, how can a new bill submitted to Congress fix things? Physician pay has decreased 33% from 2001 to 2025. How does that impact patients? What do doctors have to say?

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The Craziest Medical Bills

Scrubs

Patients around the country are getting stuck with enormous medical bills as hospitals continue to mark up the cost of their services, including those for routine medical procedures and advanced surgeries. For many patients and families, rising medical bills can be a nightmare. 79 million Americans have medical bill or debt problems.

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Congress Introduces Safe Staffing Bill for Hospitals to Protect Nurses

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Nurses have been organizing to get federal lawmakers to pass a bill that would set minimum nurse-patient ratios for every department in every hospital in the country. The bill, known as The Nurse Staffing Standards for Hospital Patient Safety and Quality Care Act, was authored by Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) in the Senate and Rep.

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Have Good Health Insurance? Too Bad. You Could Still Get A $250,000 Bill

Forbes Healthcare

The bureaucracy and opacity of hospital and insurance billing is impossible to navigate. But it doesn't have to be.

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