Here are five updates on Aetna in September, as reported by Becker's: 1. The Office of the Inspector General for HHS alleged in audits published Sept. 25 that subsidiaries of Aetna and Humana received ...

The AGA supported the Improving Seniors’ Timely Access to Care Act, which aims to increase transparency for prior authorization and streamline the process under Medicare Advantage.

Sonia Kupfer, MD, has been named the inaugural director of the community advancement of physician-scientists at the University of Chicago.

Commercial and government payers alike are increasingly pushing patients to ASCs because of the cost-savings they can offer. Here are five examples of payers pushing procedures and physicians to ASCs ...

Discover the top-paying industries for physicians, with computer systems design leading the way at $375,620 annual salary according to updated BLS data.

The U.S. House Sept. 23 has unanimously passed a bill allowing mail delivery of prescription drugs to Medicare patients.

Discover the top challenges faced by cardiologists in treating patients, including lifestyle factors and high costs, according to a report from KS&R.

Rather, he advocated for maximizing prep for all patients. This includes using verbal and written instructions for all components of prep, phoning or virtual messaging patients to help navigate the ...

Physicians also expressed mixed feelings about their employer's ability to negotiate with private payers. Forty-five percent said that their employer has "no leverage" at all when it comes to ...

A recent study by Avalere, funded by the American Independent Medical Practice Association, laid out how practice affiliation affects the share of gastroenterologists' Medicare beneficiaries. The ...

On Sept. 24, CMS issued a final ruling to address "significant, anomalous and highly suspect" billing activity on the Medicare Shared Savings program to mitigate financial impacts for Accountable Care ...

Created by Guardant Health, the blood test, known as Shield, was able to detect 83% of colorectal cancers in studies but only 13% of dangerous polyps. Colonoscopies find approximately 95% of these ...