EvidenceCare
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
The CMS Two-Midnight Rule has been in full effect for Medicare Advantage (MA) plans for about nine months as of this writing. In case you aren’t familiar, the Two-Midnight Rule mandates that a patient’s hospital stay must span at least two midnights to qualify for inpatient status, directly influencing reimbursement rates and compliance requirements.
Forbes Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
These drugs work to treat diabetes and weight loss by suppressing the appetite and lowering blood sugar and A1C—which may end up being an effective treatment for Alzheimer’s, heart conditions, depression, and many other conditions.
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Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
The settlement adds to the billions of dollars that McKesson, Cencora and Cardinal have already agreed to pay in restitution for flooding the U.S. with highly addictive painkillers.
Intercoast
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
In our rapidly evolving job market, vocational schools are emerging as beacons of opportunity, guiding students toward fulfilling and in-demand careers. These institutions, including InterCoast Colleges, are not just educational establishments but gateways to real-world success. They cater to diverse career aspirations, from healthcare and technology to skilled trades, offering specialized programs that align closely with industry needs.
Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
After years of struggles, Rite Aid filed for bankruptcy last October and in the ensuing months worked to close hundreds of stores.
Forbes Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
By combining the business acumen and scientific knowledge of its female founders, Legacy Venture Capital will help life science startups turn research into commercial success.
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Forbes Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
Explore how social media impacts athletes, from Coco Gauff's mindset shift to the pressures of online engagement. Learn strategies to protect mental well-being in sports.
Science Based Medicine
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
In our increasingly technological we are constantly exposed to radio frequency electromagnetic waves (RF-EMF). It would certainly be inconvenient, to say the least, if this ubiquitous and essential technology had negative health effects. But of course we would need to know if this were the case so that steps could be taken to fix it. Fortunately, a recent systematic review conducted by […] The post WHO Systematic Review of RF and Cancer first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.
Forbes Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
Plus: GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic have potential to treat cancer, COVID-19, heart disease, and many other diseases.
Physicians Practice
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
A preview of this year's Tri-State Healthcare Leaders Conference with session leaders.
Forbes Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
Payor information is vitally important to interoperability. Prior auth. Payer to payer. Member APIs. All of those should be brought under the same umbrella.
Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
Chief financial officer Mark Keim is taking the reins of the health insurer’s bread-and-butter business — Medicaid — along with a growing marketplace division.
Medical Economics
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
In the future, will physicians use 3D printers to create new tissues for patients? Here’s how bioprinting could affect primary care through treatment of chronic conditions, wounds, organ transplantation, and more.
Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
Sunny Bhatia will oversee all Prime regions — and lead the acquisition of Ascension hospitals in Illinois, according to a spokesperson.
Medical Economics
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
Undermining access to biologics is not the answer.
Physicians Practice
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
To proactively reduce the likelihood of a lawsuit, physicians can adopt a strategic approach embodied in the acronym A-V-O-I-D.
Medical Economics
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
A look at which sources of secondary income were most popular among physicians.
Connect Care Bytes Blog
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
Continuing a list of essential actions for Connect Care Launch 9 prescribers readying for launch November 2, 2024. Adjust Meeting Schedules in your Clinical Area A prior item encouraged advance planning for clinical service impacts at the time of Connect Care launch. Similar planning is needed to adjust clinical business and other meetings to fit with launch needs.
Medical Economics
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
A preview of this year's Tri-State Healthcare Leaders Conference with session leaders.
Connect Care Bytes Blog
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
Connect Care anticipates an upgrade and scheduled downtime in the early hours of September 12, 2024 (post with details important for prescribers to come). Connect Care uses a "transparent lockdown" process during upgrades to help prepare the system and reduce the upgrade workload, resulting in a shortened downtime window. The transparent lockdown period for the upcoming upgrade is from Friday, September 6, 2024 at 13:00 to Thursday, September 12, 2024 at 04:30.
Medical Economics
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
Obesity has long been treated as a lifestyle issue rather than a complex chronic disease.
Forbes Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
Health officials have also identified other children with suspected paralysis consistent with polio and are currently testing for the virus in stool samples.
Medical Economics
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
Summer 2024 findings from the Annenberg Public Policy Center.
Health Populi
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
In a super-divided electorate like the U.S. with about 60 days leading up to the 2024 Elections, we might assume there are no “purple” areas of agreement between the Red (Republicans) and the Blue (Democrats) thinking in PANTONE color politics. Surprisingly, there are many health policies on which Democrats and Republicans concur, as found in a series of YouGov polls conducted in May 2024.
Medical Economics
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
The top news stories in medicine today.
Forbes Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
Trump has wavered on whether to seek to repeal the Affordable Care Act. But it seems that now he and other Republicans say they want to improve, not get rid of, the ACA.
Sensible Medicine
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
Hi everyone. It is John. I am allergic to political discourse in the public sphere but Adam and Vinay are not. The question for this column is which candidate for US president is more anti-science? I agreed to introduce this debate for two reasons. First, Sensible Medicine is a place dedicated to medical reasoning, which cannot be unwound from science.
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