Two respected radiology organizations have issued a stark warning on the new recommendations, stating that they risk confusing patients and “may contribute to thousands of additional breast cancer deaths each year.”
"This case reflects a troubling pattern in which payers, dissatisfied with IDR results, increasingly try to attack those outcomes outside the framework Congress created," Rad Partners says.
“Expanding residency slots and mitigating workforce attrition will be necessary to mitigate increasing workforce gaps," experts write in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.
Demonstrated cost-effectiveness is a highly motivating factor in getting healthcare workers to adopt measures for preventing and controlling healthcare-associated infections.
Prosecutors allege that a licensed therapist in Georgia was working with co-conspirators to bill insurers for sessions that never happened, in exchange for kickbacks. In some cases, more than 24 hours of services were billed in a single day.
Issues in dispute between the University of California and AFSCME Local 3299 include wage increases, insurance costs and access to housing programs. Union officials claim members are experiencing high rates of homelessness, fueled by rising cost of living in California.
