Evoke Health Care Management was accused of disseminating over 68,500 illegal ads that linked to a marketing call center, rather than actual addiction treatment services.

The insurer, Coventry Health, rejects the agency's methodology and has said it will not repay the alleged upcoding overpayments.

A popular meditation technique may help high-risk patients protect their hearts for up to 10 years, according to a new randomized controlled trial published in Frontiers in Medicine.

SCAI and other healthcare groups want changes made to how healthcare providers are paid after performing office-based lab procedures. "As much as we love delivering care as doctors, if we are losing money doing something, we cannot sustain it," one cardiologist explained. 

Overall, 30-day outcomes were not significantly different for hospitals after being acquired by a private equity firm. However, the study’s authors did identify trends that suggest there may be a drop in the quality of care. 

“Given recent Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services coverage of CTC for CRC screening, this study and its conclusions are more important than ever,” experts write. 

Andover, Mass.-based Commonwealth Radiology Associates is teaming with Heywood Healthcare, an independent, community-owned hospital group, to deliver imaging services. 

Founded in 2018, Positrigo scored U.S. Food and Drug Administration clearance last year for its NeuroLF brain PET system, which is targeted toward Alzheimer's. 

On the technical and ethical planes, the National Academy of Medicine’s fresh guidance may represent the best way yet to ensure alignment of healthcare AI stakeholders.

The shoulders on which healthcare AI stands span from the advent of the World Wide Web, email and electronic medical records to the ubiquity of smartphones, patient portals, telehealth and personal health wearables.