California Wants to Pay Doctors More Money to See Medicaid Patients How much and who will get it will be determined later this year Mar 21, 2024
'Rock Doc' Gets 20 Years for Illegally Prescribing Opioids Tennessee nurse practitioner promoted his practice with the motto "work hard, play harder" Mar 20, 2024
Having a Retreat Helped Us Move Forward A day away from it all gave our staff a chance to generate ideas big and small Mar 18, 2024
Fertility Doc Murders Wife; Death After Gila Monster Bite; Is Milk Unhealthy? Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by 51˶ staff Mar 18, 2024
MedPAC's Report Recommends Pay Changes for Healthcare Services Report highlights MA quality, overpayment issues, and urges action on four prior recommendations Mar 15, 2024
How Can the U.S. Prevent Future Cyberattacks Like the One on Change Healthcare? To start with, more "outside in" testing is needed, expert says Mar 15, 2024
Death After Brazilian Butt Lift; Wrong-Organ Surgery Suit; Holistic Doc Investigated A weekly roundup of healthcare's encounters with the courts Mar 14, 2024
Lawmakers Quibble Over Whether Telehealth Should Be Cheaper Than In-Person Visits Lawmakers, witnesses disagree on the answer at a House hearing on home healthcare Mar 13, 2024
How to Prevent and Respond to a Cyberattack: From a Health System That Lived It The surge in health system breaches should prompt action Mar 13, 2024
Doctors Are Using New AI Tools to Record Medical Exams, Draft Messages Thousands of doctors are using products based on large language models Mar 13, 2024
Knowing When to Start, Knowing When to Stop Discussions about screening recommendations can be difficult, but they're worth having Mar 11, 2024
Most Physicians Down on Private Equity in Healthcare Just over 60% of survey respondents viewed private equity involvement in healthcare negatively Mar 11, 2024
Trump's Anti-Vax Rhetoric; Amputations After NFL Game; 'Overdose' or 'Poisoning'? Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by 51˶ staff Mar 11, 2024
Largest Independent Primary Care Network in the U.S. Accused of Medicare Fraud Whistleblower lawsuit alleges Aledade encouraged doctors to tack on suspect medical diagnoses Mar 10, 2024
Zero-Star Ratings: Point of Shame or Professional Pride? Navigating the patient with questionable motives Mar 09, 2024
MedPAC Members Pan Rural Hospitals' 'Cost-Plus' Billing System for Medicare Patients Allowing the system to stay in place is "unconscionable," says one commissioner Mar 07, 2024
Probe Into Private Equity in Healthcare Launched Federal agencies invite public comments Mar 06, 2024
Medicare a Big Contributor to the Broken Health Payment System, Senators Told Use of "hybrid" payment model urged Mar 06, 2024
CVD Risks Tied to Teeny-Tiny Plastics Lodged in Atherosclerotic Plaque And the prevalence of microplastics and nanoplastics is only increasing Mar 06, 2024
Clinicians at Telehealth Company File to Unionize Union head said it was "only a matter of time" before telehealth providers organized Mar 06, 2024
Bugged Doctors' Offices; $22M for Healthcare Hackers? What to Know About Ibogaine Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by 51˶ staff Mar 05, 2024
Most Doc Groups Unhappy With Proposed Congressional Budget Deal Measure would restore some, but not all, of the cuts to the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Mar 04, 2024
Small Wins Artificial intelligence has the potential to assist with our day-to-day tasks Mar 04, 2024
Teen Therapy and Psychiatry Online: Hit or Miss? It's time to expand school-based mental health services Mar 03, 2024
'The Good Doctors' -- Autism Spectrum Disorder and Medicine Strengths, challenges, and stories of "real" Dr. Shaun Murphys Mar 02, 2024
Flawed Medical Malpractice Legislation Can Have Deadly Consequences A current lawsuit in Florida offers an alarming case study Mar 01, 2024
FDA Using AI in Drug Surveillance; Health Systems Move Ahead With AI; RAISE Guidance A monthly roundup of healthcare-focused AI news and research Feb 29, 2024
One Week On, Pharmacies Still Hampered by Cyberattack at Change Healthcare Ransomware attack has made it difficult to process pharmacy claims Feb 28, 2024
A Global Meeting of the Minds at Davos: What's on the Horizon for Health? A look at key takeaways from this year's meeting Feb 28, 2024
AI Has an Environmental Impact, Too But it may be able to deliver net carbon benefits, at least in radiology Feb 27, 2024
AI in Healthcare: Navigating the Crossroads of Innovation and Equity Tech solutions should be aimed at boosting efficiency and care access Feb 27, 2024
Doctor Mistakenly Accused of Shouting Racist Slurs at Woman Being the target of social media misinformation "can happen to anybody" Feb 27, 2024
'Eye Opening': Chatbot Outperforms Ophthalmologists "There's no place where people did better" in response to prompts about glaucoma, retinal health Feb 23, 2024
Can Artificial Intelligence Improve Prior Authorization? Possibly, but "complete transparency" about its use would be needed, expert says Feb 23, 2024
How Many Docs Are Feeling Burned Out? Almost All of Them, Survey Finds More than half have considered taking a non-patient-facing job or leaving the field entirely Feb 22, 2024
Hospital CEO Died After Surgery, Lawsuit Follows; Doc Sues Over Noncompete A weekly roundup of healthcare's encounters with the courts Feb 22, 2024
There's Still Time to Switch Medicare Advantage Plans This Year Beneficiaries have until March 31 to find a new plan; doctors should check plans, too Feb 21, 2024
States Target Health Insurers' Red Tape Around Prior Authorization Pending bills in multiple states include policies backed by the AMA Feb 19, 2024
VA Can Be a Leader in Healthcare AI, Lawmakers Say But the department must balance innovation with a measured approach Feb 15, 2024
Hospital Cyberattacks Likely to Increase, Putting Lives at Risk, Experts Warn Computer systems are a favorite target for malicious hackers Feb 15, 2024