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HHS watchdog accuses CVS Medicare Advantage plan of upcoding

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The vast majority of diagnoses codes that CVS subsidiary Coventry submitted to the CMS between 2018 and 2019 weren’t supported by patient documentation, the HHS Office of the Inspector General found.

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GLP-1 prescriptions for weight loss are shooting up, despite obstacles

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The percentage of overweight or obese adults prescribed GLP-1s jumped by almost 587% between 2019 and 2024, according to a new Fair Health report.

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VA seeks to end telehealth copays and fund virtual care access in rural areas

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WHY IT MATTERS This week the VA announced that it is proposing to amend a regulation – the Commander John Scott Hannon Veterans Mental Healthcare Improvement Act of 2019 – to exempt all telehealth services from the law's copayment requirements.

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Physician burnout rate doubled between 2019 and 2021, study finds

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Women physicians, less tenured clinicians and those working in primary care were more likely to report higher levels of burnout, according to research published in JAMA Network Open.

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Digital health funding reached lowest level since 2019 last year: report

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Startups turned to “creative” funding mechanisms like unlabeled and silent rounds to buy time in 2023, but those strategies likely won’t work again this year, according to a report by Rock Health.

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Thailand's first int'l private hospital goes 'all the way' with EMR

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"From 2016 to 2019, we had driven all nurses’ outpatient records and about 70% of doctors’ outpatient records to be entered in Quippe. A year later, the clinical documentation tool Quippe by Medicomp Systems was implemented. The BNH IT and medical records teams retrofitted the tool to the needs of the doctors and nurses.

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Few state Medicaid programs cover GLP-1s for obesity: KFF

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Still, gross spending on the drugs increased by more than 500% from 2019 to 2023, according to the health policy research firm.

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