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5 Takeaways From Health Insurers’ New Pledge To Improve Prior Authorization

Physician's Weekly

” Oz said he wants insurers to eliminate preapprovals for knee arthroscopy, a common, minimally invasive procedure to diagnose and treat knee problems. But government interventions to improve prior authorization will be used “if we’re forced to use them,” Oz said during the news conference.

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‘We Need To Keep Fighting’: HIV Activists Organize To Save Lives as Trump Guts Funding

Physician's Weekly

Testing and outreach for HIV faltered in the South , a region that accounts for more than half of all HIV diagnoses. In the 1980s, the government refused to acknowledge HIV as gay men died young. Half of new diagnoses today are in the South and a third are among people with low incomes.