Sunday, December 14, 2025

Unprecedented; SENATE Wants to Hear Your Coding - Innovation Problems

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  My blogs  here on October 29  and again on December 2 flagged U.S. Senate investigations on the U.S. healthcare coding system. Now the Se...
Saturday, December 13, 2025

Scott Gottlieb in JAMA: AI Can Solve Productivity Challenges

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 I enjoyed this article alot, and it's very germane to current hot topics at CMS (and AMA).   Here's an AI picture, an AI summary, a...

What the Hell is MAHA ELEVATE?

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You've tried to at least recognize what the new programs ACCESS and TEMPO mean (at CMS and FDA, respectively, but they interact...) Her...

Will FDA and Other Digital Pathology Advances Outrun AMA CPT Rules in 2026?

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Header:  AMA CPT may soon face a crossroads for modernizing coding of digital pathology. ## AMA CPT has had limited means of coping with di...
Friday, December 12, 2025

CMS, FDA: Keeping Up with TEMPO and ACCESS

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"Last week, CMS and the FDA announced coordinated efforts to widen access to technology-enabled care for Medicare beneficiaries with ce...

Republican Health leader Joe Grogan Interviews Deputy Secretary of HHS on AI

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There's been a flurry of AI-related news this week, including in healthcare.  See a December 12, 2025, article at Fierce Healthcare whe...
Sunday, December 7, 2025

Humor: Medicare Non-Coverage of Stethoscopes, Microscopes, and X-Rays

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I was somewhat annoyed by a new LCD announcing broad Medicare non-coveage of AI in imaging. ( Here ).  I asked Chat GPT to review Medicare c...

CMS Expert Becomes Deputy Director of CBER at FDA

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Many of us who've worked for some time in genomics will remember Katherine Szarama PhD , who was one of the CMS coverage group staff ass...

MAC Issues LCD on Automated Detection of Brain MRI's: NO COVERAGE

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 The CGS MAC has issued a final LCD on "Automated Detection and Quantification of Brain MRI's", L40224.   The proposal appeare...
Friday, December 5, 2025

Freenome - Keeping On Top of Its Announcements (SPAC, More)

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Freenome made a big splash in 2019, when it closed a sizable $160M funding round as its Series B ( here ).  Now, December 5, 2025, there wer...
Thursday, December 4, 2025

Prolific at Linked In: Jose Pereira Leal (Diagnostics Strategies)

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 Jose Pereira Leal is a prolific author at Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pereiraleal/ See e.g. his June essay, "Lessons from t...
Tuesday, December 2, 2025

Senator Escalates Concerns about AMA "Monopoly" (Coding)

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On December 2, 2026, Washington Post features a story on Sen. Cassidy's escalating tensions with AMA, regarding coding and the RVU payme...
Monday, December 1, 2025

El-Khoury & Zaatari: Pathologist, AI, and the Future. Plus lots of great citations.

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I probably saw this post via someone at Linked-In, but I've mislaid how I heard about it.   Worth reading, a new open-access paper, whic...

Communications Expert Assesses Trump-Mamdani Conference, Line by Line

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On YouTube, communications expert Chris Miller goes through the Trump-Mamdani Oval Office meeting and describes his view of how each politi...

LegislationWatch: Proposed: Bill for Alzheimer Blood Testing in Medicare, H.R. 6130

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Legislation watch:  A bill is introduced which would cover preventive screening with blood tests for Alzheimer's disease.    The legisla...