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New rule wipes medical debt from consumer credit reports

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

The rule will remove an estimated $49 billion in medical bills from about 15 million Americans' credit reports and bars lenders from using medical information in their lending decisions.

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How To Protect Yourself From LA's Wildfire Smoke

Forbes Healthcare

Wildfire smoke causes immediate health problems like asthma and heart attacks. N-95 Masks are critical.

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What Is The Hardest Nursing Class To Take?

We Care Online

What Is the Hardest Nursing Class to Take? What Is The Hardest Nursing Class To Take? There are no easy ways into nursing education, no matter where you begin. Whether it is from courses for Nurse Aide or from more advanced Registered Nurse (RN) programs, each class has its own level of difficulty. What Is the Hardest Class on a College Campus? Hardest class on a college campus usually depends on students strengths, learning style and material.

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CVS successfully converts commercial pharmacy contracts to “cost plus” model

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

CVS’ efforts to reform how its pharmacies are paid have reached a significant milestone that should stabilize flagging margins.

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Medical billing audits: A proactive approach to compliance and revenue protection 

Health Prime

Medical billing audits are a great tool for achieving compliance and safeguarding revenue. According to the American Association of Medical Audit Specialists (AAMAS) , a medical billing audit is a process to determine whether data is in a providers health record and by appropriate and referenced medical policies, documents, or support services listed on a providers bill.

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Transcarent to acquire fellow health benefits navigator Accolade for $621M

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

The deal expected to close in the second quarter will take Accolade private and create a single firm with more than 1,400 employer and payer clients.

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Reconnecting With Your Nursing Vision

Minority Nurse

When you decided to apply to nursing school, a vision or purpose likely drove you. We generally don’t decide to pursue rigorous academic study on a whim. Those who choose nursing often have a special heart for serving others, and that spark can ignite our energy and push us to pursue our goals. If you’ve somehow lost touch with your vision of why you became a nurse , you may need to reconnect with that vision to feel that original spark in your heart again.

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Beyond nudges: Leveraging behavioral science and AI for lasting health behavior change

Medical Economics

Technology is great, but humans are the key to healthy patients

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3 ways primary care can succeed where disruptors fail

Physicians Practice

How practices can battle agains the retail threat.

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The implementation of brief geriatric assessments into primary care settings

Medical Economics

A recent systematic review analyzed the use of Brief Geriatric Assessments (BGAs) as a tool for screening older adults in primary care settings.

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Behavioral finance: A guide for physicians and dentists as business owners

Physicians Practice

The impact of behavioral biases on health care business decisions.

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Head trauma may activate latent viruses; childhood smoking increases risk of COPD; 1 in 4 U.S. veterans over 60 diagnosed with CVD – Morning Medical Update

Medical Economics

The top news stories in medicine today.

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How Much Self-Promotion is Too Much

Emerging RN Leader

By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN Self-promotion is a component of both building a leadership brand and a leader’s effectiveness and long-term success. We urge leaders today to develop their expertise, to write about and speak about their work, and to be active on social media platforms like LinkedIn. But how much is […] The post How Much Self-Promotion is Too Much appeared first on Emerging Nurse Leader.

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ACA signups set to smash record at 24M with enrollment continuing

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

The Biden administration attributed the growth to generous subsidies that are scheduled to expire at the end of this year.

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Medicare and Medicaid under the Trump administration

Medical Economics

Sheila P. Burke, chair, Government Relations and Public Policy Group, Baker Donelson Law Firm, explains what changes could be made to Medicare and Medicaid under the Trump administration.

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Health insurers will step off the roller coaster in 2025

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

After a turbulent year, things should calm for payers with the advent of a business-friendly Trump administration — though challenges will persist. Here are experts’ biggest predictions for the health insurance industry in 2025.

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CFPB finalizes a rule to remove $49 billion in medical bills from credit reports

Medical Economics

The Biden-Harris administration finalized a rule to remove medical debt from consumer credit reports and bar lenders from using medical information in lending decisions.

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A conversation with Margaret McCartney, MD, PhD regarding evidence-based medicine and conflicts of interest

Sensible Medicine

I have long followed the work of Dr. Margaret McCartney. She is a general practitioner in Glasgow, Scotland, writer, public speaker, and now PhD. She is a fierce advocate for evidence-based medicine. She holds highly skeptical views of screening for disease—which, to my surprise is quite common in the UK. Her recently finished PhD sought empirical evidence regarding declaration of conflicts of interest in the UK.

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Surgeon General Alcohol Warning

Science Based Medicine

In 1964 the US Surgeon General released its first report on the health risks of smoking and tobacco use. This turned out to be a landmark move, paving the way for the following decades of progressively more restrictive regulation of public tobacco use and marketing. In 1964 smoking was at its peak in the US, when 42% of Americans smoked. Today the […] The post Surgeon General Alcohol Warning first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

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Robert Krayn & Georgia Caveras, Talkiatry

The Healthcare Blog

Robert Krayn is the CEO and & Dr. Georgia Caveras the CMO of Talkiatry. Robert and Georgia are quite the dynamic duo (she says, “He’s the money I’m the medicine!”). As a relative latecomer in the online mental health world, Talkiatry is trying to differentiate itself from the other big players like Lyra, Headspace, Brightside et al.

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How Disrupting the Generic ED Meds Sales Model Marries to Our Digital Coexistences – Mark Cuban at the Shelly Palmer Innovation Series Breakfast #CES2025

Health Populi

What was Mark Cuban doing gate-crashing Shelly Palmers Innovation Breakfast? My worlds of content and health care collided in a serendipitous way this morning when, at the conclusion of my annual beloved experience attending and learning at the Shelly Palmer Innovation Series breakfast which focuses on content, media, entertainment, and now AI mashing up everywhere, all at once, Mark Cuban appeared as a late-breaking guest in fireside chat with Shelly.

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InnovationRx: Medical Debts Will Be Erased From Credit Histories

Forbes Healthcare

In this edition of InnovationRx, medical debts will be erased from credit histories, this farm is doubling down on raw milk despite bird flu, the cause of the mysterious disease in Congo, new rules on pulse oximeters and more.

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As Trump Looms, Another Obamacare Record Assured At Nearly 24 Million

Forbes Healthcare

The Biden administration announced a record year of nearly 24 million in individual coverage under the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare for 2025.

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