Healio Minute Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014 Edition: Child abuse linked to income inequality, mud baths soothe fibromyalgia, OIG announces 2014 focus

What just happened in medicine and why do you care?

Child maltreatment increased with income inequality in study of US counties

Healio.com/Pediatrics: Findings also show a strong association at state level between inequality and child maltreatment rates. Read more.

Fibromyalgia symptoms improved after mud bath, bathing therapies

Healio.com/Rheumatology: Improvements occurred at different times and durations for each therapy, but patients attributed longest-lasting results to mud-bath treatments. Read more.

Office of the Inspector General announces focus for 2014

Healio.com: The OIG is concerned that physicians may not be coding place of service accurately and, therefore, may be receiving payment amounts to which they are not entitled. Read more.

Pharmacy chain expands hepatitis C services

Healio.com/Infectious Disease: Walgreens says selected pharmacists are trained to identify HCV-associated health problems and to provide care for patients with HIV coinfection and other comorbid conditions. Read more.

CMS expands Medicare coverage to include cardiac rehabilitation for chronic HF

Healio.com/Cardiology: Decision reverses 2009 conclusion that there was a lack of sufficient evidence that cardiac rehabilitation programs, particularly exercise interventions, improved health outcomes. Read more.