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Tralene Williams, a state employee of 18 years, holds a Wegovy pen prior to administering a once weekly injection on Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024, in Knightdale, N.C. Leaders of the State Health Plan ...
Some health care providers say they’re starting to feel more comfortable prescribing compounded versions of the blockbuster weight loss drugs Wegovy and Zepbound, even as others have lingering ...
Shareholders of UnitedHealth Group (UHG) are calling on the company’s board of directors to release a report on how its policy of limiting or delaying access to health care may be impacting the ...
Neither the participant nor the health care provider knew which treatment was being given. [29] Treatment was given for 104 weeks (2 years), and the occurrence of cardiovascular events, including heart attacks, strokes, and hospitalization due to unstable angina (near heart attack) were recorded and compared in the two groups of participants.
Utilization management is "a set of techniques used by or on behalf of purchasers of health care benefits to manage health care costs by influencing patient care decision-making through case-by-case assessments of the appropriateness of care prior to its provision," as defined by the Institute of Medicine [1] Committee on Utilization Management by Third Parties (1989; IOM is now the National ...
Prior authorization, or preauthorization, [1] is a utilization management process used by some health insurance companies in the United States to determine if they will cover a prescribed procedure, service, or medication.
Medical billing, a payment process in the United States healthcare system, is the process of reviewing a patient's medical records and using information about their diagnoses and procedures to determine which services are billable and to whom they are billed.
The GLP-1 phenomenon is making the fragmentation and dysfunction of the U.S. health care system even more apparent. Ozempic and Wegovy are trimming waistlines—and showing how quickly U.S. health ...