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STAT+: UnitedHealth was top insurer collecting billions in questionable Medicare payments, federal watchdog finds

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billion in payments last year from so-called health risk assessments (HRAs) and related reviews of medical records performed in 2022.     A report released Thursday by the Office of Inspector General for the Health and Human Services Department concluded that insurers collectively received an estimated $7.5

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Opinion: Most-read First Opinion essays of 2022

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STAT published nearly 500 First Opinion essays in 2022, written by more than 700 authors from the biopharmaceutical industry, health care, academia, government, and private life in the United States and beyond. Read the rest…

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Covid-19 increases risk of developing autoimmune disease, but vaccination helps, large study shows

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Researchers used the medical records of 10 million Korean and 12 million Japanese adults to see whether those who had Covid were more likely to be diagnosed with autoimmune inflammatory rheumatic diseases, or AIRDs, in the year following infection. Read the rest…

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Opinion: Medical experts must step up if health justice is to enter the courtroom

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Saadi Ghatan, a professor of neurosurgery and pediatrics at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York and director of pediatric neurosurgery at Mount Sinai Hospital, reviewed Chandler’s neuroimaging and medical records in 2021 on behalf of the Southern Center for Human Rights, a legal nonprofit that represents Smith.

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Opinion: The staggering financial burden of a proposed HIPAA rule

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health care system is facing a new and costly threat that will affect patient care and ultimately may lead to hospital closures : paying for and processing a torrent of medical record requests. The already beleaguered U.S.

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The Case for Data Unity, Sharing, and Usability

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Bonnie describes how pharmaceutical care would benefit from standard medical record identification. Read more » Copyright © 2006-2022 Pembroke Consulting, Inc. She then discusses the practical issues behind implementing and adopting such a system. Read on for Bonnie’s insights. d/b/a Drug Channels Institute.

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Investigation launched into alleged animal welfare violations at Neuralink

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We only know Animal 20’s story because we sued @UCDavis for the medical records & are still engaged in a lawsuit to get access to photos and videos of these experiments. — Physicians Committee (@PCRM) November 30, 2022. Without proper context, information from medical records and study data can be misleading.”.