Summary: On September 24, 2024, the Biden administration issued a final rule designed to address suspicious billing for durable medical equipment that may have cost the Medicare program more than $2 ...

NanoVibronix, Inc., (NASDAQ: NAOV) (the "Company"), a medical device company that produces the UroShield®, PainShield® and WoundShield® Surface Acoustic Wave ("SAW") Portable Ultrasonic Therapeutic ...

When this happens, a sterile, flexible tube called a urinary catheter is inserted into the urethra (where urine leaves the body) and is gently pushed up until the end rests in your bladder. The ...

Men can get urinary tract infections (UTIs), but it is not as common as in females. The urinary tract includes the bladder, kidneys, ureters, and urethra. Signs of a UTI in men include painful or ...

Diane Newman discusses the innovation of materials used in intermittent catheters. In the data published this year, urinary retention patients had better outcomes with hydrophilic-coated intermittent ...

Access Vascular, Inc. (AVI), a medical device company dedicated to reducing and eliminating common and costly vascular access complications with its novel MIMIX® catheter material, announced today ...

aLeeds Institute of Health Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Leeds, UK bLeeds Institute for Data Analytics, School of Medicine, University of Leeds, UK cLeeds Institute of Biomedical and ...

The use of anticoagulants or indwelling urinary catheters for urinary retention was not a criterion for exclusion. The patient ages were 70 to 96 years old and the average age was 82.8 ± 8.6 ...

The Biden administration has finalized a rule targeting fraudulent billing in Medicare’s largest value-based care program, after concerning reports of spiking spending on urinary catheters.

Without intervention, the urinary catheter scandal would “jeopardize the integrity of MSSP,” CMS explained. It details that two codes, both for different types of intermittent urinary ...

2. Two intermittent urinary catheter codes are flagged as highly suspect, and payments for them are excluded. Codes are considered suspect when there is an unexplained spike in claims, either in ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services changes how it pays medical providers after a billing scheme for catheters tried to scam Medicare out of more than $3 billion. The Centers for ...