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COVID-19 Vaccine Removed From Immunization Schedule For Children, Pregnant Women

Forbes Healthcare

HHS secretary Kennedy announced that the COVID-19 vaccine no longer would be recommended for healthy children or healthy pregnant women. Experts criticized the change.

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Stark Law Changes: What They Mean for Your Medical Practice

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Referral relationships are part of everyday operations in a medical practice – but they can also create unexpected legal risk. If a physician refers patients to a facility where they have or a family member has a financial interest, that referral could violate federal law. The Physician Self-Referral Law , known as Stark Law, was created to prevent these conflicts and reduce unnecessary services billed to Medicare or Medicaid.

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CVS Sues Arkansas Over Law Banning PBM Ownership Of Pharmacies

Forbes Healthcare

CVS Health sued Arkansas, trying to thwart a law the healthcare company said would lead to the closure of all 23 CVS drugstores in the state.

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AMA: Physician private practice ‘unraveling’ due to low payment, high costs, administrative burdens

Medical Economics

Factors across U.S. health care pose a dire threat to severely destabilized independent private practice, threatening patient access.

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How to Start Virtual Care the Right Way: A Proven Roadmap for 2025 and Beyond

Speaker: Dr. Christine Gall, DrPH, MS, BSN, RN

The promise of virtual care is no longer theoretical and is now a critical solution to many of healthcare’s most urgent challenges. Yet many healthcare leaders remain unsure how to build a business case for investment and launching the right program at the right time can be the difference between value and failure. For organizations seeking a financially sound, clinically effective entry point, Virtual Patient Observation (VPO) offers a compelling case to lead with.

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Scientists Find A Market Ready Replacement For PFAS

Forbes Healthcare

Scientists develop a compostable, non-toxic alternative to PFAS using graphene oxideoffering a safer future for food packaging and children's health.

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Nvidia Is Investing Billions In Healthcare—Especially With Robotics And Hardware

Forbes Healthcare

Nvidia is a powerful force that will certainly have meaningful impact in the healthcare space.

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Is CMS going to wreck ACOs with bad math?

Medical Economics

Aledade and ACOs press CMS to fix benchmarking error that could slash shared savings

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Insurance Is So Complicated, Even Doctors Don’t Know What You’ll Have To Pay

Forbes Healthcare

When given information on a patient's insurance coverage, physicians still had trouble estimating their out-of-pocket costs

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Elevance sues Georgia providers for allegedly gaming No Surprises arbitration

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

Hospitalist Medicine Physicians, Sound Physicians Emergency Medicine and their billing provider HaloMd allegedly filed thousands of ineligible disputes into the arbitration process, costing the insurer millions of dollars.

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Jennifer Doudna: A Multi-Billion Dollar Market For CRISPR Therapies Is Possible

Forbes Healthcare

Doudna's insights on the future of CRISPR in medicine and agriculture, including the barriers that must be overcome to pave the way for a CRISPR blockbuster.

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How to build a Patient Participation Group you don’t secretly dread! – By Kay Keane

Practice Index

National Patient Participation Group (PPG) Awareness Week (3rd 9th June 2024) is almost here. For some, that might come with a wave of inspiration. For others, it might induce a flashback to that one meeting when someone brought a ten-page printout of complaints and a laminated spreadsheet of parking frustrations. Lets be honest, PPGs can sometimes feel like an uphill struggle.

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The Youngest Generation Will Bear The Highest Brunt Of Climate Extremes: Study

Forbes Healthcare

In a 1.5 degrees Celsius warming scenario, 52% of people born in 2020 will be exposed to climate-change-induced extreme weather events throughout their lifetime.

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Primary care news round-up (22nd to 28th May 2025)

Practice Index

Row over fragmentation of primary care Changes to the NHS will lead to the end of one size fits all practices. The plans for neighbourhood health services will see movement away from the 1948 NHS system, said NHS E Primary Care Director Dr Claire Fuller, but there will still be a universal and improved primary care offer. The Royal College of GPs warned against the fragmentation of primary care.

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How Policies Are Affecting Counseling For International Students

Forbes Healthcare

Many campus counseling centers are experiencing unintended consequences from recent federal policies that are affecting their ability to serve international students.

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Leading physician groups condemn RFK Jr.'s decision to drop COVID-19 vaccine guidance for children, pregnant women

Medical Economics

Medical groups warn of eroding trust, reduced access and insurance fallout after HHS bypasses expert vaccine advisory panel.

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Managing the latest pay rise: Practice Managers react to 4% uplift announcement

Practice Index

The Governments decision to accept the headline recommendations from the Review Body on Doctors and Dentists Remuneration (DDRB) means a 4% increase has been recommended for salaried GPs, GP Partners, educators and practice staff. The good news is that a 4% increase will also be applied to the pay element of the GP contract (a change from the 2.8% originally planned before the review was accepted), with the intention of allowing practices to offer a similar uplift to all salaried practice staff.

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Where doctors aren’t: New study shows why primary care shortages persist

Medical Economics

A new analysis shows that structural forces not patient need shape who gets primary care.

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[Podcast] Alexis Johnson: Building a Future-Ready Healthcare Practice

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In our podcast series Practice Pulse , we dive into the world of healthcare operations, technology, and leadership, featuring exclusive interviews with healthcare industry experts. We uncover the strategies, innovations, and real world insights that help medical practices streamline operations, enhance patient care, and drive growth. In this episode, we speak to Alexis Johnson, who serves as Chief Operating Officer at CarePoint Health and Wellness Center in Florida.

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Improving the digital health care experience for people with disabilities

Medical Economics

How health care organizations, including physicians practices, can address digital barriers and improve outcomes for patients with disabilities.

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NEW! Appraisals Manager

Practice Index

Annual appraisals are an important part of supporting and developing your team, and, when performed correctly with trackable and reportable targets and goals, they can be an effective way to retain and cultivate your staff. To help manage appraisals in your practice, we have launched Appraisals Manager, part of the HR Package , in the HUB. Features include: Manage all appraisals in one central place Track actions and objectives Monitor tasks and progress Allow the appraisee the option to add the

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Moximed launches new trial comparing implantable knee device to non-surgical OA treatments

Medical Economics

Moximed initiates a trial for its MISHA Knee System, an alternative treatment for knee osteoarthritis, promising pain relief and improved mobility.

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Navigating New CMS Skin Substitute Updates: Essential Policies for Wound Care Providers

Relias

Wound care providers are entering a new compliance landscape, which will impact 10.5 million Medicare beneficiaries in the U.S. with chronic wounds. Starting on January 1, 2026, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will implement new Local Coverage Determinations (LCD), which will affect the use of cellular and tissue-based products (CTPs), also known as skin substitute grafts, for the treatment of diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs) and venous leg ulcers (VLUs).

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Regular cannabis use is bad for the heart; home health agencies drop telehealth amid funding gaps; new eye surgery may boost AMD cell therapies – Morning Medical Update

Medical Economics

The top news stories in medicine today.

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Data security concerns hamper patient portal uptake: survey

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

Seventeen percent of respondents who don’t use online portals said they haven’t adopted them due to security concerns, according to a survey from LexisNexis Risk Solutions.

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Nurse. Parent. Human. Why Self-Care Isn’t Optional When You Care for Everyone Else

Minority Nurse

Navigating a full-time nursing career while being a parent is tough. Caring for children is time-consuming and challenging, while working as a nurse requires professionals to be focused and on the job for long hours. It can be easy to burn out while overloaded with child and career responsibilities. Thats why prioritizing self-care can help you feel energized and rested.

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BBHR: Improving Prescriber Continuity of Care Communications

Connect Care Bytes Blog

Building a Better Health Record (BBHR) As part of our documentation quality improvement initiative , we promote practical ways for clinicians to provide clear and actionable communication at transitions of care. Workflows for Prescriber Continuity of Care Communications Prior postings describe tools that can help clinicians request or confirm primary care services for patients.

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Democrat appropriators decry lack of spending transparency at HHS

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., and Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn. sent a letter to the White House budget chief alleging that federal agencies, including the HHS, aren’t adequately disclosing their spending plans.

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More Than 1.8 Million Individuals Affected by 2024 ALN Medical Management Data Breach

The HIPAA Journal

ALN Medical Management, a Lincoln, Nebraska-based provider of revenue cycle and billing services to the healthcare industry, has recently confirmed the scale of a data breach that occurred more than a year ago in March 2024. The protected health information of more than 1.8 million individuals was compromised in the incident. On May 23, 2024, ALN Medical Management filed a breach report with the HHS Office for Civil Rights using a placeholder figure of 501 affected individuals.

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The medtech IPO window is finally open. Or is it?

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

After a three-year IPO drought, the industry is questioning whether the window for medtech public offerings is open following a small burst of activity.

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NIST Proposes New Metric for Predicting Probability of Vulnerability Exploitation

The HIPAA Journal

Patching software to fix known vulnerabilities is an endless process and one that is vital for cybersecurity; however, with so many vulnerabilities being discovered, it is a major challenge for security teams to keep on top of vulnerability management. In 2024, there was a 39% increase in Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs), with 40,003 added to the National Vulnerability Database.

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