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Rewriting Genetic Fate: Universal Newborn Genomic Screening Arrives

Forbes Healthcare

Home Warranty Cost Best Home Appliance Insurance Best Solar Companies Best Solar Panels Cost Of Solar Panels Solar Tax Credit By State Are Solar Panels Worth It? Best Home Warranty Companies Cheapest Home Warranty Companies Are Home Warranties Worth It? The program is shifting the NHS from reactive care to proactive, personalized healthcare.

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Doctors, patients, insurers all frustrated with prior authorization, RFK Jr. and Dr. Oz say

Medical Economics

and Dr. Oz say Author(s): Richard Payerchin Fact checked by: Todd Shryock Key Takeaways Health insurers are committed to standardizing electronic PA submissions and reducing services requiring PA by 2026. SHOW MORE HHS, CMS leaders announce massive health insurance industry to reform prior authorization across health care. Kennedy Jr.

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Prior Authorization Is Changing

EvidenceCare

Service Categories Affected by PA Advanced imaging (MRI, CT, PET) Elective surgeries (orthopedic and bariatric) Behavioral health (IOP, residential) Specialty biologics and infusions Cardiac diagnostics/tests DME (wheelchairs, CPAP machines) Inpatient admission from ED or observation What’s changing? Kennedy, Jr.

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5 Risk Control Considerations as Nurse Practitioners’ Scope of Practice Expands

Minority Nurse

This means NPs can evaluate patients, diagnose, order, and interpret diagnostic tests, and initiate and manage treatments (including prescribing medications) under the licensing authority of the State Board of Nursing. Malpractice Insurance. Professional liability insurance: What all nurses should know. link] Candello.

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DOJ Announces Largest Ever Health Care Fraud Takedown

The HIPAA Journal

Among the individuals charged were 29 defendants for their roles in transnational criminal organizations that submitted more than $12 billion in claims to health insurance programs in the United States. We are proud to stand with our law enforcement partners in protecting taxpayer dollars and safeguarding patient care.”

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Seven Healthcare Organizations Added to Ransomware Groups’ Data Leak Sites

The HIPAA Journal

The group claims to have published a huge variety of documents, including EMRs, test results, patient histories, and billing information. Everest then leaked the stolen files on July 3, 2025, some of which appear to be patient files containing test results, patient histories, and billing information.

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Preparing for audit inevitability: Is your practice ready?

Medical Economics

Every provider will be audited — multiple times, across different insurers, sometimes for single claims, sometimes for comprehensive reviews. Audit triggers Olga Khabinskay © WCH Insurance companies aren’t randomly selecting providers to audit. But a primary care physician ordering the same test for every patient?