The Food and Drug Administration yesterday revised its emergency use authorizations for all COVID-19 antigen tests to authorize serial testing and require updates to product labeling regarding serial testing.
Passed in 2020 and effective Jan. 1, 2022, the No Surprises Act contains provisions that protect people from surprise medical billing and out-of-network emergency care costs not reimbursed by insurance.
Close to half of healthcare finance professionals say in a survey that their organizations are experiencing a severe shortage of revenue cycle management (RCM) talent — and many are exploring automation as a way to keep RCM operations working properly.
Thanks to popular media, the public may think that physicians and nurses who specialize in emergency medicine are the only providers who work in the emergency department. But the latest Medicare Part B data for emergency department E/M visits (99281-99285) reveals that members of any specialty can and do provide emergency department services.
Stroke, or cerebrovascular accident (CVA), is the fifth leading cause of death in the U.S. and the second leading cause of death worldwide, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This condition occurs when blood supply to the brain is suddenly interrupted, causing brain cells to die. The two main causes of stroke are a blocked or burst artery.
