The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is announcing an expansion of its accelerated and advance payment program for Medicare participating health care providers and suppliers, to ensure they have the resources needed to [...]
The state's approval letter can be found here, and includes flexibilities that enable the state to waive prior authorization requirements to remove barriers to needed services, streamline provider enrollment processes to ensure access to care [...]
The Trump Administration today announced expanded Medicare telehealth coverage that will enable beneficiaries to receive a wider range of healthcare services from their doctors without having to travel to a healthcare facility. Beginning on March [...]
U.S. Surgeon General VADM Jerome Adams, MD MPH, warns that every elective surgery could spread coronavirus within a medical center. The nation's top doctor on Saturday urged a widespread halt of hospital elective procedures amid mounting [...]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) information and resources available to health care professionals on its website. View COVID-19 information for healthcare professionals. View a COVID-19 Situation Summary.This is an emerging, [...]
AXIA Pharmaceutical is voluntarily recalling all unused sterile drug products within expiry due to a lack of assurance of sterility. The recalled sterile products have been found to be inconsistent with federal guidelines. Full story.
David Shurtleff, PhD, Deputy Director at the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, National Institutes of Health, shares his thoughts on closing gaps in cannabinoid research to make progress in pain management. Full story.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning that serious breathing difficulties may occur in patients using gabapentin (Neurontin, Gralise, Horizant) or pregabalin (Lyrica, Lyrica CR) who have respiratory risk factors. These include the use [...]
The following report was submitted by Robert Wailes, MD, AAPM AMA DelegateThe Interim Meeting of the American Medical Association (AMA) House of Delegates (HOD) convened November 16, 2019 in San Diego. I represented the membership [...]
The Interagency Pain Research Coordinating Committee will hold its next meeting on November 18, 2019, and will be available on a videocast. For more information.
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