CMS is proposing for Medicare to cover all medical devices designated by the Food and Drug Administration as breakthrough devices. The proposed rule, released Monday, is in response to a Trump administration executive order from late 2019 that tasked CMS with streamlining coverage for breakthrough medical devices. Manufacturers can voluntarily participate in FDA’s Breakthrough Devices
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(Photo source: iStock The consumption of non-dairy milk is on the rise. In fact, in the United States alone, sales of non-dairy milk grew 61% from 2012 to 2017.1 Americans now order soy milk lattes at cafés. They fill their cereal bowls with cashew milk. And they use coconut milk in their desserts. Even Dunkin’
Hoping to create new revenue streams, home health agencies are more frequently turning to Medicare Part B. In fact, some agencies are finding that delivering services under Part B is a natural progression for them. In the case of First Choice Home Health and Hospice, deciding to offer Medicare Part B services was a case
A United Airlines passenger jet takes off with New York City as a backdrop, at Newark Liberty International Airport, New Jersey. Chris Helgren | Reuters It’s time to say goodbye to the $200 ticket-change fee. United Airlines on Sunday said that it will permanently scrap fees to change domestic flights, a big bet that more flexible
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Actinium Healthcare Holdings — a Dallas, Texas-based private equity firm — has acquired Central Home Health Services of Texas Inc. The PE firm announced the acquisition last week, touting it as a stepping stone toward building a broader health care platform company. The financial terms were not disclosed. Houston, Texas-based Central Home Health Services of
After voters expanded Medicaid in conservative states like Missouri and Oklahoma, health care advocates are renewing a push for expansion in Mississippi and other Southern states where Republican leaders have long been opposed. They say the changing tide has followed rising income inequality, joblessness and pressure from hospitals in economic turmoil — issues exacerbated by
A lot of parents consider education within schools to be purely academic. Whereas students often see school as a mix of academia and socializing. Very few of us really consider the practical lessons that also take place. While there’s no doubt that English, Math, and Science are important, health education classes can also have a
Spending on home health care services is down substantially under the Patient-Driven Grouping Model (PDGM), a recently unveiled analysis suggests. While the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 requires PDGM to be budget neutral, spending on home health care has actually been about 21.6% lower than projected, according to a detailed analysis from Dobson DaVanzo &
Scott Gottlieb, former Commissioner of the FDA Adam Jeffery | CNBC Dr. Scott Gottlieb, former FDA chief under President Donald Trump, said on Sunday that the new guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to not test asymptomatic people for Covid-19 was “unfortunate” because those people could be at high risk of contracting the infection. “We should
Research is slowly but surely fitting together the pieces of the puzzle that is Alzheimer’s Disease. (Photo source: iStock) Dementia, Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) in particular, is widely recognized as the next global health crisis. There are more than five million Americans of all ages living with Alzheimer’s – and, unfortunately, that number is growing. The
During his physician residency training about 15 years ago, Dr. Chris Colbert doesn’t recall health equity ever being acknowledged or discussed. “There was just African American residency (training) and the thought that this wasn’t right,” said Colbert, who is African American and serves as assistant emergency medicine residency director and director of health disparities at
A Detroit resident is tested for free for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and antibodies at the Sheffield Center in Detroit, Michigan, April 28, 2020. Rebecca Cook | Reuters Coronavirus cases in the Midwest are beginning to increase following warnings from top U.S. health officials that the country’s heartland could be vulnerable to new outbreaks. Coronavirus
As the wind howled and the rain slammed down, a team of nurses, respiratory therapists and a doctor worked through the night to care for 19 tiny babies as Hurricane Laura slammed southwestern Louisiana. The babies, some on ventilators or eating through a feeding tube, seemed to weather the storm just fine, said Dr. Juan
A pig with a Neuralink implant. Screengrab of live demo Elon Musk’s brain-machine interface company, Neuralink, conducted a live demo of its technology on Friday, showing a coin-sized device without wires. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO brought along three pigs, who had varying levels of interest in cooperating. Eventually, the audience was shown real-time neural
Elon Musk on Friday unveiled a coin-sized prototype of a brain implant developed by his startup Neuralink to enable people who are paralyzed to operate smartphones and robotic limbs with their thoughts — and said the company had worked to “dramatically simplify” the device since presenting an earlier version last summer. In an event live-streamed on
Dive Brief: Nearly 40% of people have had reduced access to medical care because of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Research and Development Survey published this week. About 48% said they had reduced access for any reason, including the pandemic. The largest age range to report not receiving
Dive Brief: Minnesota hospital network Allina Health and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota have agreed to a multiyear, value-based pact intended to improve the care of patients and health plan enrollees and cut costs. Although the contract was in the works prior to the COVID-19 outbreak, both sides say the pandemic accelerated the need for
Cleveland Clinic is the latest not-for-profit health system to weather a loss due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Cleveland, Ohio-based system reported a $201.8 million operating loss in the second quarter of 2020, an 8.6% loss margin, compared with $116.2 million in operating income, a 4.4% margin, in the prior-year period. That was due to
Decades ago, choices for a career in medicine were limited to small private practice or large academic, primarily research, settings. So, physicians in training could focus on acquiring vast amounts of clinical knowledge as well as technical skills. If they wanted to go into research, there was always the option of choosing an MD-PhD path.
Amid one of the worst public-health crises in history, a record number of Americans are without health insurance. John Fedele Amid historic levels of unemployment, as many as 12 million Americans may have lost their health insurance since February, according to a study by the Economic Policy Institute. “Because most U.S. workers rely on their
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