Category: Health Economics & Costs

The AMA Can’t Figure Out How to Squeeze Telemedicine into an Outmoded System of Payment Codes

Posted on by John C. Goodman

The revisions to remote physiologic monitoring and remote therapeutic monitoring codes were considered at last week’s meeting of the American Medical Association’s CPT Editorial Panel, which includes health care professionals and representatives from medical specialty societies, hospitals, payers, and government. After discussion, the panel decided to postpone a vote on the merits of the revisions while various updates proposed during the meeting could be incorporated. The next editorial panel meeting is in September.

Source: STAT: Health Tech

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Brown v. The Board

Posted on by John C. Goodman

Jason Riley in the WSJ:

Warren’s claim that segregated schools produced inferior educational results was wrong when he wrote it in 1954. That year, an all-black high school within walking distance of the Supreme Court building sent a higher percentage of students to college than any white public high school in Washington.

Fabiola Cineas at Vox:

[On] the 70th anniversary of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision… new research confirms a startling trend: School segregation has been getting steadily worse over the last three decades.

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Friday Links

Posted on by John C. Goodman
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WSJ: More U.S. Workers are Cheating on Drug Tests

Posted on by Devon Herrick

Last week I wrote about how more Americans are self-medicating with dietary supplements. Around the same time, I ran across an article about the high number of overdose deaths in America and another article on how more Americans are cheating on drug tests. I suspect all these headlines are related to some degree. Americans aren’t just self-medicating with OTC herbal elixirs. They’re also self-medicating with various legal and illegal recreational drugs and trying to cover their tracks with their employers.

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