Pfizer on Wednesday announced the company will reorganize into three units, breaking out its consumer health care business into a separate unit, in today's bite-sized hospital and health industry news from Maryland, New York, and South Carolina.
CMS on Wednesday proposed a rule that would update Medicare policies and payments for the End-Stage Renal Disease program and aims to simplify Medicare's Durable Medical Equipment Prosthetics, Orthotics, and Supplies Bidding Program.
CMS says its Quality Payment Program proposed rule for 2019 includes changes to reduce clinician burden, emphasize patient outcome measures, and promote electronic health record interoperability.
The Medicare Physician Fee Schedule proposed rule includes an initial 3% reduction in Medicare Part B payments for new drugs, new codes to expand providers' telehealth billing options, and more.
Patients can help fellow patients navigate a new medical diagnosis in ways doctors can't, Aaron Carroll and Austin Frakt write for the New York Times' "The Upshot."
It's marketed to pranksters as a "power-packed, super-concentrated liquid" that smells of "hints of dead animal and fresh poo"—but this stinky spray has found new life in medical training, helping providers learn to maintain their calm and professionalism around foul human odors, Katherine Ellen Foley reports for Quartz.
