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Opinion: New billing codes likely to raise maternity care costs
The approach to paying obstetricians and midwives is changing. These changes will likely raise the cost of childbirth, with no guarantee of better maternity outcomes.
The American Medical Association (AMA), at the recommendation of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, will eliminate the global payment codes for deliveries used by obstetricians and midwives at the end of this year. The AMA will replace these global fees, where health plans paid for professional services based on a single bill after delivery, with fee-for-service, or pay-as-you-go, codes for prenatal and postpartum visits, fetal monitoring, and various procedures.
The approach to paying obstetricians and midwives is changing. These changes will likely raise the cost of childbirth, with no guarantee of better maternity outcomes.
The American Medical Association (AMA), at the recommendation of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, will eliminate the global payment codes for deliveries used by obstetricians and midwives at the end of this year. The AMA will replace these global fees, where health plans paid for professional services based on a single bill after delivery, with fee-for-service, or pay-as-you-go, codes for prenatal and postpartum visits, fetal monitoring, and various procedures.
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Heart transplants fail if patients get too weak. New program tries inpatient prehab
Cardiologists see this happen all too often: A patient is waiting in the hospital for a heart transplant, only to be disqualified because their fitness has fallen with each day in bed.
Dismayed by such cases, Radha Gopalan, a heart transplant cardiologist at Banner–University Medical Center Phoenix, decided to try a twist on other rehabilitation programs.
Cardiologists see this happen all too often: A patient is waiting in the hospital for a heart transplant, only to be disqualified because their fitness has fallen with each day in bed.
Dismayed by such cases, Radha Gopalan, a heart transplant cardiologist at Banner–University Medical Center Phoenix, decided to try a twist on other rehabilitation programs.
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Biologics push CMOs/CDMOs to expand sterile fill-finish and prefilled syringe capacity
Biologics push CMOs/CDMOs to expand sterile fill-finish and prefilled syringe capacity
As biologics, biosimilars and GLP-1s drive demand for sterile drug products, CMOs and CDMOs are investing in fill-finish, lyophilization, inspection and packaging capacity to keep pace with a dynamic injectable market. Read More
The FDA’s new investigational new drug pilot program—one part of HHS’s broader clinical trial modernization initiatives—has lofty goals to expedite first-in-human trials of novel drugs, but experts say it won’t tip the scales much on its own.
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