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

Physician's Weekly

Dozens of insurance companies, including Cigna, Aetna, Humana, and UnitedHealthcare, agreed to several measures, which include making fewer medical procedures subject to prior authorization and speeding up the review process. Insurers also pledged that medical professionals would continue to review prior authorization denials.

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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. One such group is Sturdevant’s.

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Even with Short-Term Health Insurance, his Colonoscopy Bill was $7,000

Physicians News Digest

The Medical Procedure Periodic colon cancer screening is recommended for people at average risk starting at age 45 and continuing until age 75, according to the U.S. In addition to those for preventive purposes, doctors may order colonoscopies to diagnose existing concerns, as was the case for Winard. Then the bill came.

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Trump Whacks Agency That Makes the Nation’s Health Care Safer

Physicians News Digest

Survey data gathered by AHRQ provides much of what is known about hospitalizations for motor accidents, measles, methamphetamine, and thousands of other medical issues. Medical errors caused by missed diagnoses, drug errors, hospital infections, and other factors kill and maim tens of thousands of Americans each year.

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Trump Says He’ll Stop Health Care Fraudsters. Last Time, He Let Them Walk.

Physicians News Digest

And as one of the first actions of his second term, Trump fired 17 independent inspectors general responsible for rooting out fraud and waste in government. “It Melgen falsely diagnosed patients with eye diseases, then gave them unnecessary care, including laser treatments and painful eye injections, according to DOJ and court documents.