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CMS inpatient payment rule for 2024: Key takeaways
Many of the changes centered around improving health equity and quality as well as alleviating rural clinician shortages.
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AI predicts endometrial cancer recurrence
Model uses only digitized histopathology slides, but more validation in other populations is needed.
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Five chronic mistakes that can sabotage your medical practice
Although she says there are no hard and fast rules on how to run a thriving medical group, there are common mistakes that physicians often don’t...
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Circulating DNA has promise for cancer detection, but faces challenges
Unnecessary procedures and health care challenges could leave Whites as the primary beneficiaries.
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Physicians may retire en masse soon. What does that mean for medicine?
“It’s a significant concern in terms of whether we have an adequate supply of physicians in the U.S. to meet our nation’s medical care needs....
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Physician compensation continues to climb amid postpandemic change
Gender-based pay disparity among primary care physicians shrank, and the number of physicians who declined to take new Medicare patients rose.
Perspectives
Health care in America: Let that tapeworm grow
Might it still be possible to do well while doing good?
From the Journals
Price of CLL Rx rises, despite competition
The cost of ibrutinib keeps going up, in spite of newer treatment options.
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New Medicare rule streamlines prior authorization in Medicare Advantage plans
About 13% of prior authorization requests that are denied by Medicare Advantage plans actually met Medicare coverage rules.
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Type of insurance linked to length of survival after lung surgery
Having public or a combination of public and private insurance was associated with worse 10-year overall survival.
From the Journals
Outpatient costs top drug costs in some insured, working women with breast cancer
‘Women think they are insured until they get a diagnosis,’ says the author of a new paper.