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 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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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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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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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 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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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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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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Forbes Healthcare

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

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

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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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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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Sensible Medicine

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

What does our philosophy have to do with RFK Jr and MAHA?

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

However, CEO Joe Almeida stressed that the earliest that new products could start to ship from the plant is late November.

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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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Forbes Healthcare

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Plus: Building a 'space truck', making medical devices safer, Rocket Lab's next spaceship and more.

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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 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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Electronic Health Reporter

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. External audit volume more than doubled in 2024 over 2023-including higher rates of pre-payment audits-and total at-risk dollars increased fivefold to $11.2 million per MDaudit customer, impacting healthcare provider organizations’ cash flow and exposing them […] The article MDaudit’s 2024 Benchmark Report Reveals a Fivefold Increase in Dollars At-Risk from Payer Audits While Coding-Re

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Forbes Healthcare

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

2024 has been the year of the AI ambient scribe. But this nascent product class is still quickly evolving. Here, I explain how it will shake out.

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Medical Economics

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

The top news stories in medicine today.

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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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