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Providers 'wasted' $10.6B in 2022 overturning claims denials, survey finds

Fierce Healthcare

More than 100 provider organizations want the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to take a tougher stance on Medicare Advantage (MA) plans’ practices following an industry survey es | Providers spent nearly $20 billion in 2022 pursuing delays and denials across all payer types, yet those efforts are substantially more costly on average (..)

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Opinion: ‘Internist’ is a confusing, outdated term. It’s time for a new name

STAT

Defining the role of internal medicine within the health care system has been a challenge since the field began in the late 1800s in Germany. Sir William Osler introduced this approach to patient care in America, and with it came the name “internal medicine. Read the rest…

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Can pink eye cause a fever?

The Checkup by Singlecare

“Conjunctivitis could stem from a viral infection, and when this occurs, someone may also have other symptoms such as fever, body aches, nasal discharge, and cough ,” says Edgar Navarro Garza , MD, a board-certified pediatrician at Harbor Health in Austin, Texas. That’s because fever is simply a sign of immune system activation.

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Finding Pharmacy Solutions through Entrepreneurship

Pharmacy Is Right For Me

There are so many different types of careers within the field of pharmacy—from research and drug development to pharmacy informatics! To highlight some of the more unique career settings in the industry, we’re introducing a new page on our website— Novel Pharmacy Practice Settings —where you can explore these unique career pathways.

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Belly button infections: Symptoms, treatments, and prevention

The Checkup by Singlecare

Belly button infections and symptoms The most common types of belly button infections are bacterial and fungal belly button infections. Bacterial belly button infections According to researchers, the average belly button contains 67 different types of bacteria. A compromised immune system can also contribute to fungal infections.

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Common pharma compliance concerns cited by FDA warning letters

European Pharmaceutical Review

A study of the causes of warning letters issued by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) and Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) between 2010 and 2020 revealed that poor current good manufacturing practice (cGMP) compliance and misbranding were the most common citations.

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Opinion: Generative AI’s three possibly insurmountable challenges for health care

STAT

Talk about AI in medicine often focuses on the most exiting possible innovations like precision diagnostics, clinical prediction systems, and analytics-driven drug discovery. As a patient, I hate the experience of having to talk to my doctors as they peer at me just over the laptop screen (all the while typing furiously).