Practice Management News

The presence of anti-SSA/RO antibodies in pregnant patients can predict adverse pregnancy outcomes, including spontaneous abortion, according to data published in Pediatric Rheumatology.

The mortality rate for infants born to teen parents declined more than 16% from 1996 to 2019, according to a study published in Pediatrics.

On April 7, a U.S. District Court judge in Texas suspended FDA approval of the abortifacient mifepristone giving the government 7 days to appeal, and a second judge in Washington ruled not to restrict the drug in states allowing abortion.

Female patients with psoriatic arthritis who receive biologic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs are more likely to have more severe disease and less likely to reach low or minimal disease activity vs. male patients, according to data.

The federal Physician Self-Referral Law — aka the Stark Law — is a federal statute designed to curb unnecessary utilization of certain health care services.

At the end of 2022, Congress passed a massive 4,155-page spending package that included SECURE Act 2.0, which provided numerous improvements to retirement savings and distribution rules.

Medical organizations are sounding the alarm after a federal judge ruled that it is unconstitutional to require insurers and health plans to cover preventive services recommended by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force at no cost.

Japanese women who habitually slept 6 hours or less per night were more likely to experience menopause at an older age than those who reported longer sleep duration, according to data published in Menopause.

For more than a decade, the medical community as a whole, and particularly the field of rheumatology, has been trying to move away from opioids for the management of chronic pain — with varying degrees of success.

As a part of a comprehensive health care compliance program, every medical practice should conduct regular exclusion screening.