Practice Management News

Women who only accessed deceased donor liver transplant had worse outcomes than men independent of existing liver disease but access to living donor LT may bridge this disparity gap women face.

Health care spending and outcomes vary across racial and ethnic groups in the U.S., with underrepresented populations often having higher rates of ED spending and poor or fair health, according to three studies published in JAMA.

The Nash-FibroTest non-invasive panel successfully diagnosed the stage of fibrosis as well as graded nonalcoholic steatohepatitis and steatosis among patients with type 2 diabetes, according to a recent study.

New data in MMWR showed that underrepresented populations had higher rates of excess mortality in 2020, and that COVID-19 was largely responsible for excess deaths among adults aged 25 years and older.

Emergency medicine residents frequently experienced mistreatment in the workplace, including gender and racial discrimination, physical abuse and sexual harassment, according to findings published in JAMA Network Open.

Research has shown that many patients in the LGBTQIA+ community experience health care discrimination and avoid health care out of fear of mistreatment.

HHS will award approximately $19.2 million to support “telehealth innovation and quality nationwide,” the agency said in a press release.

The AMA said today that the CPT code set has been updated to include codes for a third dose of the Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines.

Black adults reported experiencing discrimination or unfair judgment in health care settings at triple the rate of white adults and double the rate of Hispanic or “Latinx” adults, according to recent survey data.

Humanigen has announced that its antibody lenzilumab increased the likelihood of survival among certain Black and African American patients with COVID-19.