Strengthening Dental Payment Integrity Through Smarter Claim Editing
[Sponsored] Fraud, waste, and abuse (FWA) continue to challenge dental plans as overtreatment, miscoding and…
[Sponsored] Fraud, waste, and abuse (FWA) continue to challenge dental plans as overtreatment, miscoding and inappropriate billing practices drive unnecessary costs and weaken payment integrity. For dental payers, the stakes extend beyond financial losses: these issues can also expose members to unnecessary procedures and consume benefits that should be preserved for appropriate care. The post…
More than a year into President Donald Trump’s sweeping immigration crackdown, a poll finds that voters in rural parts of the country are divided on whether those immigration policies have benefited or harmed their communities. In the Associated Press-KFF survey of more than 2,000 rural voters in August, about a third said the Trump administration’s…
Medications can snowball as we age. Pill organizers pile up. Prescriptions that are no longer necessary can mix with other drugs to create concerning side effects. “Once you get to six or seven prescription medications, you get a nearly 100% chance of some sort of side effect or intolerance,” said physician K. Eric De Jonge,…
By STEVEN GOODMAN The future of rural healthcare won’t be determined by how much money is invested. It will be determined by how wisely that money is used. That line gets nodded along to at every rural health conference, then quietly ignored the moment the conversation turns to solutions, because the solutions on offer are…
While the immune reset field is mainly focused on depleting pathogenic B cells, ai3Bio is applying its novel approach to inflammatory T cells. The startup’s initial disease targets are autoimmune disorders of the liver that have few treatment options if any at all. The post Immunology Startup ai3Bio Aims to Redefine What It Means to…
The Trump administration’s ACA fraud crackdown will remove 760,000 people from Marketplace coverage, drawing criticism from healthcare experts and advocates. The post Trump’s ACA Fraud Crackdown: Experts Urge Going After Bad Actors, Not Patients appeared first on MedCity News.
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Rural patients, Medicaid enrollees, and patients from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups are more likely to go undiagnosed, more likely to be misdiagnosed, and more likely to end up in an emergency department rather than an allergist’s office. The post Closing the Diagnostic Gap: Why Access to Allergy Care Isn’t Equal appeared first on MedCity…
At a recent symposium on privacy, experts discussed how AI supports a faster and oftentimes more insightful approach to data security, while identifying which privacy risks healthcare organizations must monitor. The post Healthcare Privacy Leaders Look to AI to Improve Monitoring and Data Breach Investigations appeared first on MedCity News.
KFF Health News chief rural correspondent Sarah Jane Tribble discussed the findings of a KFF-Associated Press poll about rural support for the Make America Healthy Again movement on NPR’s Morning Edition on Sept. 30. Click here to hear Tribble on Morning Edition. Read Tribble’s “Rural MAHA Followers Say Trump Health Policies Haven’t Reached Their Communities,”…