by Advize Admin | Aug 19, 2022 | Business, Healthcare
Terri Logan practices music with daughter Amari Johnson at their home in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Logan’s newfound freedom from medical debt is reviving a long-dormant dream to sing on stage. (JUAN DIEGO REYES FOR KHN AND NPR) Soon after giving birth to a daughter...
by Advize Admin | Aug 19, 2022 | Compliance, Healthcare
Kyle Kopec, Braden Health’s chief compliance officer, holds up a sample of diagnostic images left behind at a Tennessee hospital. As the company takes over abandoned hospitals, a major task is figuring out what to do with old medical records stacked in...
by Advize Admin | Aug 12, 2022 | Business, Healthcare
For decades, the drug industry has yelled bloody murder each time Congress considered a regulatory measure that threatened its profits. But the hyperbole reached a new pitch in recent weeks as the Senate moved to adopt modest drug pricing negotiation measures in the...
by Advize Admin | Aug 12, 2022 | Healthcare
The giant health care, climate, and tax bill expected to pass the House on Friday and be sent to the president for his signature won’t be as sweeping as the Democrats who wrote it had hoped, but it would help millions of Americans better afford their prescription...
by Advize Admin | Jul 29, 2022 | Commentary, Healthcare
“While health often deteriorates in conflict, health can also bring about peace.” All of us have experienced and confronted profound disruptions caused by COVID-19, evidencing words penned by the great author, Charles Dickenson, in his opus relating to the...
by Advize Admin | Jul 29, 2022 | Healthcare
Data wonks with mighty computers are overjoyed. Ordinary consumers, not so much. That’s the reaction about three weeks into a data dump of enormous proportions. Health insurers are posting their negotiated rates for just about every type of medical service they cover...
by Advize Admin | Jul 15, 2022 | Healthcare
Will your health plan pay for an abortion now that the Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade? Even before the June 24 ruling, insurance coverage for abortion varied widely. Now the issue is even more complex as states set varying rules — about half are...
by Advize Admin | Jul 15, 2022 | Commentary, Healthcare
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (“NAIC”) is a resource we enjoy for providing regulatory support functions, presenting insurance standards and best practices to help support compliant and informed decisions. On July 11th, NAIC...
by Advize Admin | Jul 8, 2022 | COVID19, Healthcare
The grinding two-plus years of the pandemic have yielded outsize benefits for one company — Pfizer — making it both highly influential and hugely profitable as covid-19 continues to infect tens of thousands of people and kill hundreds each day. Its success in...
by Advize Admin | Jul 8, 2022 | FWA, Healthcare, Medical Record Auditing
Congress should crack down on Medicare Advantage health plans for seniors that sometimes deny patients vital medical care while overcharging the government billions of dollars every year, government watchdogs told a House panel Tuesday. Witnesses sharply criticized...
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