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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Smart Communications Inc., the wireless subsidiary of PLDT, on Friday issued an advisory informing its customers in Luzon of intermittent services. In a social media post, Smart said that “some ...

Intermittent fasting (IF) for people with diabetes has the potential benefit of improving blood glucose—and possibly reversing diabetes or going into "remission." The key is balancing these benefits ...

Medicare billing for codes A4352 and A4353, both intermittent urinary catheters, reached up to 20 times the usual historical average in 2023, swelling to $3.1 billion from just $153 million two ...

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 ...

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Some of her patients at the Children’s Hospital at Westmead Clinical School were already trying intermittent fasting. Others were asking her if they could. “But nothing had really been tested ...