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

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. 

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. 

However, partisan divides dwindled when respondents were asked about how federal cuts to healthcare spending would strain their local communities, particularly in rural and low-income areas.

The Pharmaceutical Care Management Association—a trade lobby representing pharmacy benefit managers—argues a state law that would force companies to divest from drugstores could leave patients without access to critical medications.

New first-in-human data highlight the potential of pants designed to improve the quality of MRI-based cardiac stress tests.