Scrubs

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

In an unprecedented step toward financial relief and health equity, the city of St. Paul, Minnesota, has announced the erasure of nearly $40 million in medical debt for 32,000 residents. Through a partnership between city and state leaders and medical debt relief organizations, this initiative aims to lift a massive burden off the shoulders of St. Paul residents, allowing them to “breathe easy” and focus on their well-being without the looming stress of unpaid medical bills.

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Forbes Healthcare

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

The number of H5N1 bird flu cases in dairy cattle workers in the U.S. may be much higher than reported, indicates a new CDC study.

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Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Mass General Brigham, Emory and other providers will assess different AI models from companies like Google, Microsoft and Amazon.

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Science Based Medicine

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

When RFK Jr. does to the U.S. what he did to Samoa, doctors will say they are horrified, that they love vaccines, blah blah blah. But it will be too late. The post If You Sanewashed RFK Jr., Or If You Sanewashed Doctors Who Did, You Own the Next 4 Years first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

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Scrubs

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

In early November 2024, a shocking tragedy unfolded in Budapest, Hungary, as American nurse Mackenzie Michalski was murdered while visiting the city. Michalski, a 31-year-old nurse practitioner from Portland, Oregon, was an accomplished medical professional working in neurosurgery. Known for her dedication to patient care and her compassionate nature, she was widely respected in her community and beloved by family, friends, and colleagues.

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Forbes Healthcare

NOVEMBER 9, 2024

A 58-year-old nurse from Scotland has died after taking two doses of weight-loss drug tirzepatide, also known as Mounjaro or Zepbound.

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The Healthcare Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

By TAMARA MANNS I walked into the emergency department already knowing the outcome. In these same rooms I had told women having the same symptoms as me, “I am so sorry, there is nothing we can do for a miscarriage”. I handed them the same box of single ply tissues I was now sobbing into, as I handed them a pen to sign their discharge paperwork. Two weeks after my emergency room discharge, I continued to live life as if nothing happened, returning to work without any healthcare follow-up to addre

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Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Regulators’ assessment of customer support centers has spurred recent lawsuits from UnitedHealthcare, Centene and Humana. But the metric “is going to have a smaller weighting on star ratings moving forward,” the director of Medicare said.

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Forbes Healthcare

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Climate change undermines the fight against HIV, TB and malaria. Integrating health into climate policy is crucial to overcoming these deadly diseases.

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Science Based Medicine

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Mass purges and prosecutions of scientists have happened before. We shouldn't pretend they can't happen here. The post Dr. Vinay Prasad: “I Don’t Believe in Forgiveness Because in My Opinion These Pieces of S**t Are Still Lying.” first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

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Minority Nurse

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Driven by the need for increased access to care and the demand for more healthcare providers, recent legislative changes now allow nurse practitioners (NPs) in certain jurisdictions to perform a broader range of services, including diagnosing and treating patients independently. While these changes enhance the role of NPs and allow them to practice to the full extent of their training, they also introduce legal and ethical challenges that NPs must navigate to mitigate liability risks.

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Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

The flat-out denial comes after Cigna CEO David Cordani tried to throw cold water on persistent speculation of a Humana merger earlier this fall.

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Forbes Healthcare

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

A teenager in British Columbia, Canada has been hospitalized with a presumed case of H5N1 bird flu, the first detected human case in the country in the current outbreak.

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Medical Economics

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Clearing up misconceptions about neuro sympathetic reset and its role in managing chronic pain and emotional trauma.

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Medbridge

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

On Friday, November 1, 2024, the U.S. Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the 2025 Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule, with some major wins for therapy providers as well as some bad news sprinkled in. First, the Bad News: Payment The rule finalizes a 2.8 percent cut to reimbursement, continuing the worrying trend […] The post Major Wins for Therapy Providers in the Finalized Physician Fee Schedule for 2025 appeared first on MedBridge Blog.

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Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The plan requires only copays for medical services and prescription drugs up to the plan member’s out-of-pocket maximum, with no deductibles or coinsurance costs.

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Forbes Healthcare

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Plus: How AI can make it easier to find drugs from nature and a study suggests Ozempic could treat alcoholism.

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Medical Economics

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Research examines family doctors’ attitudes on team efficiency, home time in electronic health records, and burnout.

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Sensible Medicine

NOVEMBER 9, 2024

I am huge of fan of the The Skeptical Cardiologist, who I will refer to as TSC. His opinions are often ones I hope I would have come to if I was thinking about the same topic. His substack and twitter feed are totally worth following. I read his post last week on Sensible Medicine and agreed with pretty much everything he said. I also was left with a different conclusion.

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Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

The deal, along with the Ohio-based health system’s current cash, would eliminate nearly all of Summa’s debt.

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Forbes Healthcare

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Why Indigenous Peoples are raising the alarm on carbon trading at COP 29

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Physicians Practice

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Section 179 allows businesses to deduct the full purchase price of qualifying equipment and/or software during the tax year.

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Medical Economics

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

When providers adopt digital tools, they can deliver a better consumer experience that promotes greater patient satisfaction and increases the likelihood of prompt collections.

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Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Kaiser said it would institute cost-cutting measures in response to the lackluster financial results, but didn’t detail specifics.

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Forbes Healthcare

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Less than 20% (19.6%) of Americans who are eligible to get screened for lung cancer are getting the test they need, according to research published in JAMA Network Open.

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Medbridge

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the 2025 Home Health Final Rule on November 1, 2024. The rule includes a significant change from the proposed version released in June, increasing overall payments by 0.5 percent instead of cutting payments by 1.7 percent. The payment increase replicates a process that has occurred […] The post 2025 Home Health Final Rule: CMS Reduces Cuts, Revises CoPs, and More Updates appeared first on MedBridge Blog.

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Medical Economics

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Change is coming in 2025, but physicians can maximize reimbursement for remote physiological monitoring and chronic care management.

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Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

In a sample of 100 hospitals, 34 didn’t meet requirements for publishing machine-readable files of their charges while 14 didn’t follow rules to post shoppable services.

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Forbes Healthcare

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Memories are created in a matter of seconds. Researchers now may have begun to uncover how behavioral timescale learning integrates memories across several seconds.

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Physicians Practice

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

The verdict is in for how practice's feel about their payers, and it isn't good.

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Medical Economics

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

A study suggests that if health care professionals are better trained with AI than its potential to make care more effective could be in the near future.

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