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(MedPage Today) -- When a previously healthy 7-year-old girl limped into the emergency department with unexplained leg pain, a detailed dietary history became critical to diagnosing and ultimately treating her. She'd had pain in both her legs...
Read full article →The state claims UnitedHealthcare inflated the sickness of seniors enrolled in MassHealth managed care plans to reap at least $100 million in improper payments.
Read full article →The CMS pushed back sanctions until July 1 after Elevance made progress on fixing faulty data submissions for its privatized Medicare plans. But the company still has more to do, regulators said.
Read full article →The attorney general said the civil penalties could add up to “multiple millions” if the suit is successful.
Read full article →As CFOs confront rising healthcare costs, thinking hard about worker retention and where costs can be made more efficient is essential, Virta’s Manu Diwakar said.
Read full article →Why EHR success is shifting from clinical notes to owning the "financial layer" of the practice.
Read full article →Patients can’t wait — but provider credentialing delays are getting longer.
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- CHICAGO -- A paradigm-changing clinical trial in prostate cancer showed that perioperative apalutamide (Erleada) and androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) significantly reduced the risk of metastasis in high-risk localized disease...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- "The light goes out of their eyes in about 3 years. This is not what they signed up for." -- Clark Coler, MD, of Swedish Medical Group in Seattle, on young physicians facing the increasingly profit-driven demands of modern...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- CHICAGO -- A first-in-class bispecific antibody targeting PD-1 and VEGF combined with chemotherapy significantly improved overall survival (OS) in patients with advanced squamous non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), according...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- Donald Trump's physician says the president is in "excellent health" and is "fully fit" to serve as commander in chief after a medical exam Tuesday at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center that showed the president's body...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- CHICAGO -- Treatment with the CDK4/6 inhibitor abemaciclib (Verzenio) offered a dramatic survival uptick in a highly aggressive soft-tissue cancer that rarely responds to chemotherapy, according to the SARC041 trial. Patients...
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