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Opinion: Healthcare or health care? Help STAT decide
The Associated Press Stylebook, the foundational journalism guide for how newsrooms report and write their stories, made waves last week when it decreed that “health care” should now be written as one word, not two. The change, announced at the annual ACES: The Society for Editing’s conference, was prompted by shifting usage and years of appeals to make the switch.
STAT closely follows AP style and has used “health care” since its founding in 2015. Now, we have to decide whether to adopt this new guidance, but our newsroom is divided.
The Associated Press Stylebook, the foundational journalism guide for how newsrooms report and write their stories, made waves last week when it decreed that “health care” should now be written as one word, not two. The change, announced at the annual ACES: The Society for Editing’s conference, was prompted by shifting usage and years of appeals to make the switch.
STAT closely follows AP style and has used “health care” since its founding in 2015. Now, we have to decide whether to adopt this new guidance, but our newsroom is divided.
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STAT+: Top lawmaker takes aim at doctor lobby, linking AMA’s billing codes to fraud fight
WASHINGTON — For decades, politicians have blamed the country’s biggest doctor lobby for some of the health care systems problems. Now it faces a new line of attack as Republicans portray their health care cuts as fraud-fighting policies.
The law requires that doctors bill for services in Medicare and Medicaid using Current Procedural Terminology, or CPT, codes, which are owned by the American Medical Association. The codes describe what services a patient received.
A key House Republican is requesting a meeting with Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services officials to discuss their oversight of the CPT coding system as part of his committee’s investigation into fraud, waste, and abuse. In the letter, Rep. James Comer (Ky.) suggests the “complexity” of medical coding “may be contributing to improper billing and higher costs” and “creates an environment where billing inaccuracies can flourish.”
WASHINGTON — For decades, politicians have blamed the country’s biggest doctor lobby for some of the health care systems problems. Now it faces a new line of attack as Republicans portray their health care cuts as fraud-fighting policies.
The law requires that doctors bill for services in Medicare and Medicaid using Current Procedural Terminology, or CPT, codes, which are owned by the American Medical Association. The codes describe what services a patient received.
A key House Republican is requesting a meeting with Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services officials to discuss their oversight of the CPT coding system as part of his committee’s investigation into fraud, waste, and abuse. In the letter, Rep. James Comer (Ky.) suggests the “complexity” of medical coding “may be contributing to improper billing and higher costs” and “creates an environment where billing inaccuracies can flourish.”
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Cytospire hauls in $83M for a new type of T cell engager
The British biotechnology startup is making “pan-gamma delta” T cell engagers it says can address the limitations of similar, existing therapies.
The British biotechnology startup is making “pan-gamma delta” T cell engagers it says can address the limitations of similar, existing therapies.
Novel targets aim to stop lung scarring—where current drugs only slow it—while improving tolerability and unlocking fibrosis in other organs next
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