August is National Immunization Awareness Month. Medicare Part B covers three important immunizations and their administration for qualified beneficiaries.
It can be tough to talk money, but for patients in the healthcare setting, it gets a whole lot easier when there is a strong trust bond established with a physician, according to a recent National Institutes of Health Clinic Center report.
The Professional Association of Health Care Office Managers has announced the finalists for the 2013 award, which will be presented Oct. 23 at the organization's annual conference in Clearwater, Fla.
My care is no longer episodic, so why should my records be? I no longer need "visits" as units of commerce, and no longer need "problems" as the goods for which I am paid.
According to research from the University of Alabama's Birmingham School of Public Health, more than 50 percent of patients who suffer from moderate kidney disease also have a degree of hypertension that is resistant to medications.
In a paper released on July 10, a network of healthcare experts detailed reduction strategies for five specific procedures often employed by clinicians that may, in several instances, not be entirely necessary.
For now, all still seems well on the viral front, but that hasn’t stopped scientists from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases from checking into the pandemic potential of the novel bird flu strain, H7N9.
