Sensible Medicine

MAY 16, 2025

Following up with another 35 “diseases just learned.” ” Please look back to last week’s intro if you are just coming to this series. Like Part I, this is a gift to our paid subscribers. This Substack is reader-supported. If you appreciate our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Read more

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Sensible Medicine

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

RM is a 72-year-old man who comes to the office for routine follow-up of spinal stenosis, hypertension, and peripheral vascular disease. I was obsessed with the sport long before I began telling people, “I want to be a doctor when I grow up.” Sensible Medicine is a reader-supported publication. It is March.

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Sensible Medicine

JUNE 24, 2025

I read with interest the detailed critique of the recently presented and published CHALLENGE trial offered up by Mandrola and Cifu. As an academic colorectal oncologist with 20 years of experience, I have closely followed the developments in research on the effects of exercise on colon cancer outcomes.

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Sensible Medicine

MAY 28, 2024

The USPSTF claims "screening interventions" decrease the prevalence of depression at six-month follow-up by an odds ratio of 0.60. This number is surprising when we consider the following: A meta-analysis of six RCTs found the benefit of SSRIs, compared to placebo, to be small and statistically insignificant at six months.

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Forbes Healthcare

JULY 2, 2025

Here’s How CIOs Can Step Up By David Chou Follow Author Share Save Editors' Pick Leadership CIO Network Potential Medicaid Cuts Demand Action. Here’s How CIOs Can Step Up By David Chou , Contributor. Follow Author Jul 02, 2025, 11:08am EDT Jul 02, 2025, 05:19pm EDT Share Save WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 13: U.S.

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Insurance Follow-Up Medical Coding Billing 167

Forbes Healthcare

JUNE 14, 2025

Jain Follow Author Share Save Comment Innovation Healthcare Time For Medicare Advantage Leaders—Including Me—To Eat Our Own Cooking By Sachin H. Follow Author Jun 14, 2025, 04:29pm EDT Share Save Comment Dr. Why It Matters—for Me, and for the Industry I don’t make this proposal lightly—because it would apply to me, too.

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Sensible Medicine

JANUARY 23, 2025

In the Nurses’ Health Study and the Health Professionals’ Follow-Up Study, people with higher linoleic acid intake actually had a lower risk of developing diabetes. Diabetes: Concerns about seed oils causing diabetes have also been refuted by large-scale studies.

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Sensible Medicine

JULY 28, 2024

In a follow up post , Adam Cifu, my friend and colleague, took me to task. ” Photo via instagram (you can follow me there). Those are the loose, plastic ones that end up in the ocean, strangling turtles and other sea creatures, after being used for armed robberies or college protests. A reduction of 3%.

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Sensible Medicine

JUNE 28, 2024

What there was -- courtesy of colleagues from across the country – were cases illustrating needless excess, careless follow-up, poor commitment to clinical care, and the devaluation of primary care that undermines our entire system. In the days following, there are questions, or test results, or complications.

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Sensible Medicine

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

I begin with this semantic point about causal language because it ends up being one of my two main criticisms of the analysis. This occurs because older patients have more drug-drug interactions, decreased drug clearance, and less robust reflex mechanisms to maintain blood pressure when standing up. These were the treatment arm.

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Scrubs

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Beggs shared the videos on TikTok where she quickly racked up hundreds of thousands of views. She now has over 600k followers on the app. She said she feels a responsibility to show up for her audience now that she’s built such a devoted following. In fact, it’s enhancing her knowledge and experience.

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Forbes Healthcare

JUNE 19, 2025

Physician, Advisor, Speaker, Emory University, Healio Follow Author Jun 19, 2025, 12:31pm EDT Share Save Comment The young mother was visibly exhausted. Physician, Advisor, Speaker, Emory University, Healio Follow Author Jun 19, 2025, 12:31pm EDT Share Save Comment The young mother was visibly exhausted. Please help me.

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Minority Nurse

JUNE 12, 2025

Something simple to acknowledge that I had followed the process, submitted what was needed, and did my part. In nursing, we are expected to show up fully, carry the weight, follow through, and then some. But what happens when the people we were counting on do not show up for us? Instead, I was met with silence.

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Forbes Healthcare

JUNE 27, 2025

Follow Author Jun 27, 2025, 05:54pm EDT Share Save Comment Exercise is good for one’s health. For example, a retiree might wish to avoid sitting for hours at a time watching television (or working in front of a computer), but rather break up that time with regular standing and walking breaks every 30-45 minutes. Paul Hsieh, M.D.,

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Sensible Medicine

JULY 10, 2025

The following table illustrates how relative risk translates to actual risk over 10 years. These approximate 5-10% relative differences would equate to the following approximate change in your absolute 10-year risks of the following important outcomes. Here is another way of looking at the effect on risk.

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Forbes Healthcare

JUNE 28, 2025

Follow Author Jun 28, 2025, 10:35am EDT Jun 28, 2025, 10:37am EDT Share Save Comment An egret flying from the lake in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka, on September 23, 2023. It was especially common in samples from islands in Sri Lanka and the Maldives, where it accounted for up to 85.7% John Drake is a professor at the University of Georgia.

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Valant

JUNE 18, 2025

Each step of the billing process requires people to have specialized knowledge and to be able to maintain consistent follow-through. When it comes to patient billing, staff must manage communications about balances, set up payment plans, and handle questions about coverage.

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Billing Follow-Up Insurance Documentation 88

Forbes Healthcare

JUNE 16, 2025

The Real-Time Biotech Wearable Trackers By Ximena Araya-Fischel Follow Author Share Save Comment Innovation Healthcare Face Tattoos For Stress? Chief Editor, Communications Strategist, and Executive Health Coach Follow Author Jun 16, 2025, 04:59pm EDT Share Save Comment San Ramon, California, November 22, 2019.

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Insurance Unit Organization and Environment Follow-Up Transfers 292

Doximity

MARCH 21, 2025

She estimates that this prompt saves her up to two hours per week , and sometimes even more when demand is high. She estimates that this prompt saves her about an hour daily , adding up to 7 hours weekly and nearly 28 hours monthly. Follow-up in three months with repeat labs. GPT helps me generate them efficiently."

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Forbes Healthcare

JUNE 19, 2025

Follow Author Jun 19, 2025, 08:00am EDT Share Save Comment Changes in diagnostic criteria drove an increase in autism diagnoses. Internal distress, like working twice as hard as other just to keep up, was not considered. Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Alison Escalante M.D.

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Insurance Follow-Up Diagnostics Transfers 264

Scrubs

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Her six-year-old daughter Lorette had a fever and needed to be picked up. The nurse quickly set up a birthing area in her office using a low pediatric cot, the same place where she normally treats kids for tummy aches. They wound up in Costa Rica but she struggled to find work in a foreign country.

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Practice Index

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

By midday, they had responded, expressing interest in meeting us to discuss a follow-up piece incorporating our views and experiences. Well, yes try shutting us up, if you dare! By 10:45 AM, we had gathered comments from our members, compiled them and sent them to the articles author.

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Forbes Healthcare

JUNE 23, 2025

Follow Author Share Save Comment Innovation Healthcare Neuralink Is Working On Vision-Enhancing Implants, Elon Musk Says By Dr. Sai Balasubramanian, M.D., Follow Author Jun 23, 2025, 10:00am EDT Jun 23, 2025, 10:46am EDT Share Save Comment Elon Musk's Neuralink has advanced significantly in recent years. Sai Balasubramanian, M.D.,

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Insurance Follow-Up Transfers Patient Safety 295

Health Prime

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

This disease management includes everything from regular check-ups to specialist appointments. Our team will set up a meeting to discuss how Health Prime can maximize your revenue by cutting costs, saving you time, and collecting more! Subscribe to our Health Prime blog. Contact us at sales@hpiinc.com.

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Billing Follow-Up Administrative Work Best Practices 98

Scrubs

MARCH 6, 2023

Palmer reached out to the Mount Pleasant Police Department for a follow up,” the department said. The no-driving period can last up to a year or more, but the length depends on the type of tumor and the treatment they received. On February 19, 2023, Ms. The officers wrote that she is now doing well and in recovery.

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Forbes Healthcare

JUNE 8, 2025

Walton, PhD Follow Author Share Save Comment Innovation Healthcare 3 New Studies Remind Us There’s More To Eating Well Than Just Weight Loss By Alice G. Follow Author Jun 08, 2025, 10:09am EDT Jun 08, 2025, 10:13am EDT Share Save Comment Healthy foods may matter more than weight alone. Walton, PhD , Senior Contributor.

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Forbes Healthcare

JULY 8, 2025

Follow Author Share Save Comment Innovation Healthcare Healthcare Robotics Pioneer Mendaera Announces FDA Clearance By Dr. Sai Balasubramanian, M.D., Follow Author Jul 08, 2025, 08:30am EDT Share Save Comment Image-guided needle procedures are one of the most foundational aspects of modern healthcare. Sai Balasubramanian, M.D.,

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EvidenceCare

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

CMS Policy Changes to Reduce Costs Financial pressures are rising as CMS implements the updated Version 28 Hierarchical Condition Category (HCC) model , which introduces changes aimed at limiting types of codes that are most used for up-coding or over-coding to help rein in spending. We call them CMS 4201 violations.

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Hospital Discharges Documentation Follow-Up 130

Scrubs

APRIL 5, 2023

Dereck Paul is the co-founder of Glass Health, a start-up in San Francisco that offers artificial intelligence chatbot services to doctors looking to ease the burden of routine processes, such as patient documentation. And now doctors are using it to answer routine clinical questions.

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Sensible Medicine

DECEMBER 20, 2023

I’ve been following the general conversations and have been particularly interested in AI’s potential to improve diagnostic performance. I started with a steroid two years ago, but the pain was too severe and I ended up with an injection in my back. What follows is the suggested reply to the partner of a patient of mine.

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Sensible Medicine

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

This week will be a straight up critical appraisal (with a bit of a critique of Wall Street Journalism Churnalism thrown in). The studies leading up to the Annals of Oncology study demonstrated that the most effective assay targeted specific methylated, cell-free DNA. We then work up every positive test.

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Sensible Medicine

JUNE 18, 2025

We also posted two follow-up articles for that debate. Clinical Validation of a Circulating Tumor DNA–Based Blood Test to Screen for Colorectal Cancer If you want a deeper dive into cancer screening, we have covered the topic a lot on Sensible Medicine. Adam has written six different articles about screening.

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The HIPAA Journal

APRIL 29, 2025

Verisource Services, an employee benefits administration service provider, has determined that a previously announced data breach was far worse than initially thought and has affected up to 4 million individuals.The Houston, Texas-based company detected a hacking incident on February 28, 2024, that disrupted access to some of its systems.

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Sensible Medicine

MARCH 25, 2025

Traditionally, NIH (and science in general) identifies priorities by looking at historical burdens of diseases or by following the leads of existing research. Perhaps the starkest change AI can bring to NIH is a shift from a reactive, research model to a proactive one.

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We Care Online

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Staying up-to-date with the latest practices, regulations, and medication management techniques is essential to providing the highest quality of care. Our update class ensures that youre up-to-date with state and federal regulations, helping you stay compliant and avoid potential legal issues.

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Medication Best Practices Patient Safety Documentation 96

Prism Career Institute

JUNE 17, 2025

Here, we offer insight into the medical ethics to follow while working in a medical assistant career. The AAMA has both a creed and code of ethics that medical assistants should follow: The American Association of Medical Assistants Creed The creed outlines the mindset medical assistants should have as they perform their work.

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Valant

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Read on to learn how your practice can keep up with the current rules and prepare for future changes. Parity laws have upped the expectations for documenting and justifying treatment. Staff and providers should have clear-cut steps to follow to capture relevant data. Features to speed up documentation.

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