Podcast: Direct Access Laboratory Testing - Physician Orders and Specimen Collection - Diagnosing Health Care
Podcast: Direct Access Laboratory Testing: Reimbursement & Compliance – Diagnosing Health Care
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 126: Josh Arant, COO, Mako Medical
Over 10,000 rare diseases are currently affecting more than 30 million Americans. This article, written in partnership with members of the Rare Disease Compliance Consortium, focuses on the role of Patient Advocacy...more
Cosmetic injections, such as Botox and dermal fillers, and weight-loss injections, such as Wegovy® and Ozempic®, are popular offerings at med spas, weight-loss clinics, and dermatology practices. But are they considered the...more
We can all agree that health and wellness should be equal opportunity goals for all Americans, and your skin color shouldn’t matter. But it does. The health numbers for Blacks, Latinos and Asian Americans are so...more
A failure to diagnose generally occurs when a physician or other healthcare provider does not diagnose a patient’s current medical condition or makes the correct diagnosis but not within a timely manner. It may also happen...more
If there is one thing that everyone can agree on, it is that health is an important factor in life. In 2021, over 3 million people died in the United States with heart disease and cancer topping the list....more
Diagnostic errors are an understandable patient concern in any clinical setting. But just how often do they actually occur, particularly in emergency rooms? That is what the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services...more
Doctors working in hospital emergency departments face chaos, violence and high stress every day, and usually they get the diagnosis and treatment right. But, and it’s a big but, as often as one in seventeen ER visits ends...more
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the Calendar Year (CY) 2023 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) Final Rule on Nov. 1, 2022, which impacts Medicare Part B payments starting on Jan. 1, 2023....more
Report on Medicare Compliance 31, no. 35 (September 26, 2022) - For the third time in about 2 1/2 years, hospitals or other providers that are part of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health, a large health system in New Hampshire,...more
Attorneys across the nation have noticed an increase in the number of potential plaintiffs coming forward with a painful condition called complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) that they believe resulted from needlestick...more
The U.S. Justice Department’s COVID-related health care fraud crackdown continues to intensify. On a single day in September 2021, the Justice Department announced criminal charges against 138 defendants in 31 federal...more
Anyone involved in the health care industry has heard of the Stark Law (Stark). Most people understand it to prohibit referrals of certain “designated health services” between persons or entities that have a compensation or...more
Celebrating its sixth program, McDermott+Consulting’s +Dx Diagnostics Forum is the premier annual program for the laboratory diagnostics community. Gain insight into how the industry addresses regulatory and business...more
Learning objectives: - Governmental/Payor Data Analytics - Impact of Yates Memo and Data Analytics - COVID-19 Evaluation and Management Coding and Documentation - COVID-19 Testing Coding and Documentation -...more
Life Sciences and Health Care Horizons virtual event series - The fast pace of innovation in the life sciences and health care industry has reached an all-time high in 2020 as the industry grapples with the new reality of...more
Approximately 20% of new breast cancers are diagnosed before they have spread from milk ducts into surrounding breast tissue. Breast cancer at this early stage is known as ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) or stage 0 breast...more
In a year marked by unexpected challenges and rapid change, staying connected with industry peers and keeping a watchful eye on market trends, policy developments and collaborations in the life sciences space is crucial to...more
...The Personalized Medicine Coalition (“PMC”) recently published its 2020 Spring Newsletter that examines the landscape and outlook for personalized medicine as COVID-19 prompts new discussions about the effect of COVID-19...more
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released several fact sheets on COVID-19 coverage and benefits, and announced a second Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) code, U0002, for billing COVID-19...more
Neurosurgeons' Compensation in Top 10 Percent Nationwide Gives Rise to Stark Act and FCA Claims - In United States ex re. Bookwalter v. UPMC, 946 F. 3d 162 (3d Cir. 2019), the court ruled that the relators stated a Stark...more
China's new rules for Internet-based medical services – telemedicine, Internet hospitals and Internet-based diagnosis came into force on 17 July 2018. ...more
Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems, including the use of algorithms and computer software to analyze complex data and perform certain decision making functions without direct human involvement, are rapidly developing in...more