Insurance

WAILEA, Hawaii — In this video from Orthopedics Today Hawaii, William R. Beach, MD, discussed ways surgeons can avoid insurance denials for MRIs and surgical intervention.

Value-based care is a leading platform of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. This prominent platform reflects the growing presence of the programs in the U.S. health care system.

VSP Vision has launched AARP Vision Plans from VSP, which includes a number of vision and eye wear insurance options tailored to the needs of AARP members.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Insurance status appeared associated with survival among patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma, according to findings presented at International Kidney Cancer Symposium: North America.

PHILADELPHIA — Social demographics and insurance type are influential factors in efforts to increase interest in living kidney donation among patients on dialysis, researchers said at ASN Kidney Week.

NEW ORLEANS — Same-sex female couples initiated IVF about 8 months earlier in the year after, compared with the 3 years before, New York state required insurers to provide earlier access to nonheterosexual patients, a speaker said.

Expansion of the Affordable Care Act significantly increased cancer clinical trial participation among patients with Medicaid insurance, according to study results published in JAMA Oncology.

Illinois and Georgia have passed legislation to protect optometrists from vision plan-enforced discounts and interference in the doctor-patient relationship.

Among women who said they wanted permanent contraception after giving birth, those with Medicaid were less likely than those with private insurance to receive sterilization procedures, according to results of a retrospective cohort study.

Insurance and neighborhood socioeconomic status were significant mediators of inequity in CV mortality among Black and white cancer survivors, according to a study published in the International Journal of Epidemiology.