California Fines Anthem $5 Million For Failing to Address Consumer Grievances California’s managed-care regulator announced Wednesday it has fined insurance giant Anthem Blue Cross $5 million for repeatedly failing to resolve consumer grievances in a timely manner. Read More... November 16, 2017 Blue Cross, General, Insurance 0 0 Comment Read More »
Reminder: Don’t hesitate to revalidate, or Medicare will deactivate Noridian, Medicare’s administrative contractor for California, continues to deactivate providers for not responding to Medicare revalidation notices, resulting in a gap in billing privileges and lost revenue for physicians. Read More... November 14, 2017 Medicare 0 0 Comment Read More »
Is There A Way To Keep Using Opioid Painkillers And Reduce Risk? In response to the epidemic of opioid addiction and deaths, in 2016 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released guidelines urging physicians to try non-opioid methods first for chronic pain. In a viewpoint published last month in JAMA, the journal of the American Medical Association, CDC officials wrote that while illicit opioids such as fentanyl seem to be driving the recent increase in opioid-related overdose deaths, "unnecessary exposure to prescription opioids must be reduced to prevent development of opioid use disorder in the first place." Read More... November 14, 2017 General, Public Health 0 0 Comment Read More »
AARP Foundation Sues Nursing Home To Stop Illegal Evictions A California judge could decide Tuesday if Gloria Single will be reunited with her husband, Bill. She's 83 years old. He's 93. The two have been married for 30 years. They lived in the same nursing home until last March, when Gloria Single was evicted without warning. Read More... November 14, 2017 General, Public Health 0 0 Comment Read More »
2017 EHR Report Card Electronic health records (EHRs) now are a part of most medical practices, yet doctors remain unhappy with them. In the Medical Economics 2017 EHR report—our fifth—we let them explain why in their own words. In our exclusive survey, we queried more than 3,200 physicians to learn more about their frustrations and the changes they would like EHR vendors to make in their products. Then we asked vendors to respond. Some of their answers may surprise you. Read More... October 19, 2017 EHR, General 0 0 Comment Read More »
