Practice Management News

A record number of Americans — 16.3 million — signed up for health insurance through Affordable Care Act Marketplaces in 2023, the Biden-Harris administration announced Wednesday.

Amazon has further expanded its reach into health care with a new discount prescription drug program.

In this podcast episode, Shivan Mehta, MD, MBA, MSHP, discusses behavioral economics in patients and clinicians, the entrance of non-traditional entities in the health care space and more.

Many patients who received a positive stool-based screening test result for colorectal cancer did not receive a follow-up colonoscopy within 1 year, according to the results of a mixed-methods cohort study.

DENVER — Socioeconomic status, household composition and housing or transportation were among predictors of low vaccination rates in patients with inflammatory bowel disease, according to a presenter at the Crohn’s and Colitis Congress.

DENVER — Proactively educating patients on biosimilar efficacy and cost-savings associated with their use can help reduce anxiety and bias if/when their insurance opts to switch, according to a presenter at the Crohn’s and Colitis Congress.

DENVER — Nutrition therapy for patients with Crohn’s disease should focus on increased and varied consumption rather than restrictive diets, according to a presenter at the Crohn’s and Colitis Congress.

Researchers reported low prevalence for advanced colorectal neoplasms at screening colonoscopies conducted at least 10 years after a negative index colonoscopy, especially among women younger than 75 years.

The ACP has proposed a new process to streamline specialty referrals — a step that experts have called critical to fixing a massive issue in health care — but questions remain about the plan’s feasibility.

Researchers have proposed a machine-learning algorithm for personalized treatment selection in patients with recurrent hepatocellular carcinoma, based on data published in JAMA Surgery.