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Access ⬇️: 1/3 of 🇺🇸 can’t find a physician.
It’s doesn’t take a detective or a brain surgeon to know that the rent seekers are making a pile of 💰💵💰
Employers across the country are using price transparency data to tweak health plan benefits and push legislation to pressure hospitals to lower prices.
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Effective oversight and regulation of managed care organizations are essential to protect patients and prevent fraudulent activities. Learn more: https://t.co/OryVVFMvfI
A factory in Brazil is mass-producing lab grown mosquitoes infected with Wolbachia bacteria, which prevents dengue virus transmission to humans, in an effort to slow the spread of the disease https://t.co/NGeml0OEcb
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is encouraging hospitals to use its seven core sepsis elements as a framework for patient care and program structuring. https://t.co/HJofosVCNE
Interesting. Would be good to know if the studies included how the Medicare & AMA guidelines actually differentiates medical necessity, specifically multiple comorbidities. 90% hospitalist's patients = multiple comorbidities = increases medical complexity https://t.co/HcO1f4mViJ
1/ Important #NSA update as @CMSGov has posted "a checklist of reqs. for group health plans" after rec'g @ACEPNow @EDPMA letters & examples detailing numerous instances of #healthplan non-compliance w/ regs; 2/ The agency details several of most impactful non-compliance issues...
1/ So AMA CPT codes are mandated in the HIPAA Transaction & Code Set Stds. (TCS) & yet @HorizonBCBSNJ has decided to ignore CPT stds. & cut (as of 8/1/22) reimbursement for an E/M code by 50% when that service is also billed w/ a procedure + -25 modifier--which occurs a lot......
How compliant is your telehealth billing? Are you following CMS’s changes as they occur? DOJ is gearing up for “historic level of enforcement action” for COVID-19 fraud https://t.co/91LqLV0pkO
Despite the uptick in virtual care over the last year, we're still vastly underutilizing its potential says @JonBloomMD on @THCBstaff. How can we maximize its value, long-term? https://t.co/YjCl8RCdGB
Hmm. “The White House is weighing whether to temporarily lift intellectual property protections on Covid-19 vaccines and treatments.
The move would allow other countries to replicate existing vaccines” https://t.co/5qjr6C48e2
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Medicare updated vaccine billing guidelines this past week. Be sure you have the latest info: Medicare Billing for COVID-19 Vaccine Shot Administration | CMS https://t.co/EEIDQnrvV0