Wednesday, August 23, 2023

AI Corner: YouTube Video: Andy Stapleton Reviews "SCITE"

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Even if you're not interesting in subscribing to SCITE.AI - a knowledge tool and research facilitation service based on AI - you might ...

First Approval of a Whole Genome Test in Medicare: From MolDx to Wash U; $3228

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Update, coverage at Genomeweb September 19 here . ## MolDx has issued the first-ever approval of a whole-genome test in cancer, the Chromose...
Sunday, August 20, 2023

Reuters: Georgia Man Sentenced to 27 years; $463M Genetics Scheme; Florida Court

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I recommend you go right to the open access Reuters story, here: https://news.yahoo.com/georgia-man-sentenced-27-years-225638653.html For mo...

NEJM: Neumann and Tunis ask, Can CMS Be an Effective "HTA?"

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In a new Op Ed online at NEJM, Neumann and Tunis ask if CMS can be an effective Health Technology Assessment organization (HTA).   For examp...

NQF Loses National Contract (February 2023); Absorbed by Joint Commission; Battelle Takes Over

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There's a $20M-plus annual national contract for an objective, multi-stakeholder registry for quality measures.  For years, it's be...
Friday, August 18, 2023

BCBS Evidence Street To Shut Down in December 2023

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BCBS Evidence Street was both an entity for evidence libraries for BCBS plans, and also an entity that could contract and sell projects to f...
Thursday, August 17, 2023

AI Corner: Contrast and Compare Two Genomeweb Articles (Children's Hospital Colorado and Duke)

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This week, Genomeweb had two somewhat similar headlines: Children's Hospital Colorado Embraces Precision Medicine via 'Institutional...
Wednesday, August 16, 2023

AI Corner: Shea (JAMA); AI Tackles 6 Hard Cases, Does Well

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Debate and articles swing back and forth on AI vs doctors as diagnosticians.  For a large scale article, see Singhal et al. here . For a mod...
Monday, August 14, 2023

The Lord Giveth, Taketh Away: CMS Rescinds Coverage for LDT PSA Test under NCD for PSA Screening

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Back on June 15, 2023 , I published the surprising announcement that CMS was covering an LDT PSA-related test under the NCD for prostate scr...
Friday, August 11, 2023

AI Corner [Humor] : ChatGPT Discusses Senator Warner's Letter to Google re AI & Healthcare

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On August 8, 2023, Senator Mark Warner sent a 3 page letter to Google regarding risks and problems that may occur secondary to its release o...

Very Brief Blog: Web Event September: Patients, Doctors, Shared Decision-Making

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 One of the challenges of precision medicine is the complexity of decision-making, especially when this meets up with shared patient-family-...
Thursday, August 10, 2023

MolDx Proposes Revisions to Transplant Molecular Testing Policy (L38568); Open for Comments

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Over the past year, CareDx share price rose and fell with variants in MolDx's billing article for molecular testing for organ transplant...
Wednesday, August 9, 2023

AI Corner: ChatGPT Endorses Spellberg's "PITCHING TO THE HOSPITAL C-SUITE"

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One of my all-time favorite articles about health policy is the open-access article, Pitching to the Hospital C Suite, by Spellberg of USC. ...

Catching Up with DARK REPORT: From 81408 Fraud to Z Codes

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  I've subscribed to the trade journal   DARK REPORT   for years.   I'm sorry I haven't been to their outstanding spring confere...
Tuesday, August 8, 2023

Very Brief Blog: Open Meetings for Notorious Novitas/FCSO Oncology Biomarker LCDs

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 In June, Novitas and FCSO posted identical twin, final "Oncology Biomarker" LCDs that were extremely long and tortuous, and inclu...