The passage of the Consolidated Appropriations Act last month will bring some changes to the Medicare provider-based billing requirements. This act funds federal departments and agencies, including the Department of...Read More »
Initiation of GLP-1 drugs was associated with a lower risk of substance use disorders (SUD) in adults with type 2 diabetes, a recent target trial emulation using data on veterans found. When compared with SGLT2 inhibitors (used to...Read More »
CMS recently published a behavioral health toolkit in an effort to support state Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) agencies ensuring children and youth get the care...Read More »
Having a family history of kidney disease is associated with a 16% higher risk for disease progression among patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD)–even after accounting for APOL1 risk alleles and social determinants of health (SDOH), according to a recent study published in the...Read More »
A self-controlled case series study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) suggests that respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) poses a far greater long-term...Read More »
Outpatient treatment following emergency department (ED) visits increased sharply among all payer types, but particularly Medicare patients, according to a recent study published by JAMA Health Forum....Read More »
