The American Hospital Association on Thursday urged the Justice Department to conduct more False Claims Act investigations of Medicare Advantage insurers for denying patients access to services and payments to providers. But whether the False Claims Act applies to Medicare Advantage prior authorization denials is up for debate. AHA’s letter to the Justice Department cited
Officials say they have seen 197 cases, and 11 of the young children have needed a liver transplant. Source link
Graphical abstract. Credit: Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (2022). DOI: 10.2215/CJN.14361121 A recent study published in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology has investigated how 2011 changes to anemia care have impacted clinical outcomes among patients with kidney failure who are receiving hemodialysis. Anemia—a shortage of healthy red blood
Investigators from Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, New Jersey’s only National Cancer Institute- Designated Comprehensive Cancer Center, led a collaborative study to examine the patterns of druggable oncogenic fusions in colon cancer specimens including microsatellite-stable and unstable (MSI) tumors. Subhajyoti De, PhD, researcher at Rutgers Cancer Institute and Shridar Ganesan, MD, PhD, chief of
Maintaining a healthy lifestyle is a struggle, especially when you’re surrounded by temptations and distractions. It may be easier at first to say that you’re switching to a healthy lifestyle or diet, but it can become more difficult during the process. You need to adapt to a new lifestyle, change your diet, and follow a
Imagine walking into the Library of Congress, with its millions of books, and having the goal of reading them all. Impossible, right? Even if you could read every word of every work, you wouldn’t be able to retain or comprehend everything — even if you spent a lifetime trying. Now let’s say you somehow had
An expert group convened by the World Health Organization says there may be some benefit in giving a second booster dose of coronavirus vaccine to the most vulnerable people amid the continuing global spread of omicron and its subvariants. In a statement issued on Tuesday, the United Nations health agency said there was “a growing
The charity’s research also found just over a quarter of people with a visible difference have been stared at whilst at work, while nearly one in five reported that they have been passed over for development opportunities, promotion, wage increases or client/customer contact in the workplace. Source link
As of May 2022, the U.S. is experiencing another uptick in the number of COVID-19 cases. High rates of infection in Europe and Asia, along with the continued emergence of new sub-variants, such as omicron BA.4 and BA.5, raise concerns that another surge could be on the way. Even though demand for COVID-19 tests greatly
Three-dimensional culture of human breast cancer cells, with DNA stained blue and a protein in the cell surface membrane stained green. Image created in 2014 by Tom Misteli, Ph.D., and Karen Meaburn, Ph.D. at the NIH IRP. The risk of invasive breast cancer in men may be associated with self-reported infertility in the male partner,
