CHMP recommends EU approval of Roche ’s Tecentriq as adjuvant treatment for a subset of people with early-stage non-small cell lung cancer
In the Phase III IMpower010 trial, adjuvant Tecentriq reduced the risk of disease recurrence or death by 57% in people with PD-L1 high resectable Stage II-III NSCLC compared with best supportive careMore than half of people with early-stage NSCLC experience disease recurrence following surgery,1 and most of these recurrent tumours are metastatic, making them incurable2-7If approved, Tecentriq will be the first and only cancer immunotherapy available for certain people with early-stage NSCLC in EuropeBasel, 22 April 2022 - Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) today announced that the European Medicines Agency ’s (EMA) Commi...
Source: Roche Media News - April 22, 2022 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news

Clinical Laboratories Still Struggle with Write-offs and Establishing Patient Relationships
Potentially increasing the revenue write-off burden for clinical laboratories, HRSA changes, insurance contracting, policy and coverage questions for genetic and genomic testing, and patient relationship disconnects will expose cracks in lab test claim generation and billing processes Last year it was estimated that collection agencies held $140 billion in unpaid medical bills, in addition to […] The post Clinical Laboratories Still Struggle with Write-offs and Establishing Patient Relationships appeared first on Dark Daily.
Source: Dark Daily - April 18, 2022 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: swallask Tags: Coding, Billing, and Collections Laboratory Management and Operations Laboratory Resources News From Dark Daily accounts receivable anatomic pathology automated systems billing and collections clinical laboratory financial strategies F Source Type: news

United Healthcare moves to designated provider program
On July 1, 2022, United Healthcare will begin to implement its Designated Diagnosti...Read more on AuntMinnie.comRelated Reading: Medical debt credit reporting policy changes will impact radiology 9 questions on how to bill for locum tenens services in radiology Legal win forces a change to the No Surprises Act Coding changes that will impact radiology practices in 2022 How will Medicare payment changes impact your radiology practice?
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 18, 2022 Category: Radiology Source Type: news

NLM Collaboration Improves Standards for Reporting Clinical Genomics Variants
The National Library of Medicine ’s (NLM) National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) have released a set of standard transcripts for 99% of human protein coding genes and 99.8% of genes of clinical relevance. This set, part of the Matched Annotation from NCBI and EMBL-EBI (MANE) collection, harmonizes transcript and protein sets produced by this joint genome annotation effort.
Source: NLM General Announcements - April 14, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news

Scientific evidence supporting the government response to coronavirus (COVID-19), SAGE (updated 8th April 2022)
Evidence considered by the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE). 8 April 2022We ' ve added 38 papers under February to December 2020, and 6 new papers under January, March and June 2021. We ' ve also published 6 medium-term projections that were considered during a week in which no SAGE was held. 18 February 2022We ' ve added 10 new papers to February 2022 and added an HTML version of one paper. We ' ve also corrected the author attribution of a paper from April 2020.
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - April 8, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Medical and Non-medical Laboratories in UK and Europe Hit by Rising Costs and Supply Shortages Due to High Demand for Testing Services
Supply chain shortages involving clinical laboratory products may not ease up any time soon, as China’s largest shipping province is once again in COVID-19 lockdown Following two years of extremely high demand, pathology laboratories as well as non-medical labs in the United Kingdom (UK) and Europe are experiencing significant shortages of laboratory resources as well […] The post Medical and Non-medical Laboratories in UK and Europe Hit by Rising Costs and Supply Shortages Due to High Demand for Testing Services appeared first on Dark Daily.
Source: Dark Daily - April 6, 2022 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Jillia Schlingman Tags: Coding, Billing, and Collections International Laboratory News Laboratory Instruments & Laboratory Equipment Laboratory Management and Operations Laboratory Pathology Laboratory Resources Laboratory Testing anatomic pathology clinical labo Source Type: news

Janssen Announces Health Canada Approval of RYBREVANT ® (amivantamab), the First and Only Targeted Treatment for Patients with Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer with EGFR Exon 20 Insertion Mutations
Toronto, ON, April 4, 2022 – The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson announced today that Health Canada has issued a Notice of Compliance with Conditions (NOC/c) approving RYBREVANT® (amivantamab), a fully-human, bispecific antibody, for the treatment of adult patients with locally advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with activating epidermal-growth factor receptor (EGFR) Exon 20 insertion mutations whose disease has progressed on or after platinum-based chemotherapy.[i] Health Canada NOC/c is granted to promising new therapies for patients diagnosed with serious, life-threate...
Source: Johnson and Johnson - April 4, 2022 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: Innovation Source Type: news

Medical debt credit reporting policy changes will impact radiology
While most physician groups are compassionate and are willing to work with thei...Read more on AuntMinnie.comRelated Reading: 9 questions on how to bill for locum tenens services in radiology Legal win forces a change to the No Surprises Act Coding changes that will impact radiology practices in 2022 How will Medicare payment changes impact your radiology practice? A surprising consequence of the No Surprises Act
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 1, 2022 Category: Radiology Source Type: news

Ad hoc announcement pursuant to Art. 53 LR Roche provides update on phase III SKYSCRAPER-02 study in extensive-stage small cell lung cancer
Ad hoc announcement pursuant to Art.53 LRRoche provides update on phase III SKYSCRAPER-02 study in extensive-stage small cell lung cancerSKYSCRAPER-02, the firstrandomized study oftiragolumab in extensive stage small-cell lung cancer (ES-SCLC),did not meet its co-primary endpoint of progression-free survivalES-SCLC is a hard-to-treat disease andTecentriq plus chemotherapy remains a standard of careTiragolumab continues to be evaluated in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and other cancer types through additional phase III trials as plannedBasel, 30 March 2022 - Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) today announced that the p...
Source: Roche Media News - March 30, 2022 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news

NLM Technical Bulletin, Mar-Apr 2022, History of Medicine Finding Aids Consortium to Retire on April 15, 2022
On April 15, 2022, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) History of Medicine (HMD) Finding Aids Consortium (https://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/consortium/index.html) will be retired due to declining use and the technology advancements of other common web indexing services.
Source: NLM Technical Bulletin - March 29, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news

Advanced practice providers take on more image-guided procedures
Although radiologists still perform the most image-guided paracentesis and thoracentesi...Read more on AuntMinnie.comRelated Reading: Could paid family leave help fix radiology's 'leaky pipeline' for women? Should second-opinion reads receive more reimbursement? How can physician extenders benefit a radiology practice? Physician compensation remains steady during COVID-19 pandemic E/M coding and billing for interventional radiology
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 29, 2022 Category: Radiology Source Type: news

Corns, Calluses and Properly Fitting Children ’ s Shoes
Discussion Probably the most common foot problem is foot pain or skin problems. This can be due to chronic and acute trauma, mobility issues, normal development, activities and footwear. Common foot problems include: Acute trauma is probably one of the most common reason patients and families seek care for is pain after acute trauma. Children prior to full puberty with acute trauma may have a growth plate fractures or Salter-Harris fractures which can be reviewed here. Apophysitis and tendonitis are common overuse injuries where there is irritation of the tendon and its insertion points. Chronic overuse can also lead to f...
Source: PediatricEducation.org - March 28, 2022 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Pediatric Education Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news

CDC coding error led to overcount of 72,000 Covid deaths
Calls for agency to communicate clearly and transparently after error, corrected last week, inadvertently added deaths to trackerA quiet change to how the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) publicly reports Covid death details underscores the need for the agency to communicate clearly and transparently about rapidly evolving science, experts say.The past two years have created numerous communication challenges for the agency, which works with massive amounts of data from scores of different sources, including states and territories.Continue reading...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - March 24, 2022 Category: Science Authors: Melody Schreiber Tags: Coronavirus Omicron variant Infectious diseases Medical research Science Source Type: news

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