California Department of Industrial Relations

DWC updates hospital outpatient department and ambulatory surgical center fee schedule for October 2026 Medicare changes

The Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) has posted ...
Opinion
STATOpinion

I’m a doctor. Here’s what I want the public to know about AI tools and health care costs

BCBS claims that bump coding has become more widespread because hospitals are using AI tools to identify secondary diagnoses. Automated tools can skim a patient’s chart and prompt physicians to ...
Opinion
American Hospital AssociationOpinion

Better Information, Better Care: How Coding Supports Today’s Complex Patients

A report recently released by the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association suggests that hospitals’ use of AI-enabled documentation tools is driving higher healthcare costs through increased coding ...
American Hospital Association

AHA comments to MedPAC on differences in post-acute care use between MA, fee-for-service Medicare beneficiaries

The AHA provided comments to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission Oct. 2 on a discussion from the commission’s September ...

Medtronic Receives Category I CPT® Code Approvals for Altaviva™ and Symplicity Spyral™ Systems

Medtronic plc (NYSE: MDT), a global leader in healthcare technology, today announced that the American Medical Association (AMA) approved new Category I Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) codes for ...
MarketScreener

Lantheus Holdings, Inc. Receives Cms Transitional Pass-Through Status and Permanent Hcpcs Code for Pylarify Truvu

Lantheus Holdings, Inc. (?Lantheus? or the ?Company?) (NASDAQ: LNTH) announced that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (?CMS?) has granted Transitional Pass-Through (?TPT?) payment status ...
hme-business

More HCPCS Codes to Require F2F, Written Order Prior to Delivery Starting Oct. 28

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has added 22 HCPCS codes in nine durable medical equipment (DME) ...
Reuters

Microsoft revamps Copilot with code generation, agentic AI tools

Sept 25 (Reuters) - Microsoft on Friday unveiled several new capabilities in its Copilot app, including a coding tool and an always-on AI agent, as the software giant seeks to transform ‌its AI ...
Managed Healthcare Executive

Why consumers still can’t comparison shop for medication

Medication price comparisons remain opaque because multiple price definitions exist and patients typically learn out-of-pocket costs only at the pharmacy counter. Transparency in Coverage requires ...

GPT-6 Sol vs Claude Opus 5.5: Coding, Pricing, and AI Agents

GPT-6 Sol and Claude Opus 5.5 differ on API pricing, coding benchmarks, reasoning controls, agent performance, and enterprise safeguards for teams.
Wall Street Journal

AI Coding Startup Factory More Than Triples Valuation to $5 Billion

Factory, which makes autonomous AI agents that code, has raised $200 million at a $5 billion valuation, the company said—more than three times its valuation from five months ago, when it last raised ...
Forbes

What Is AI-Assisted Coding And How To Make It A Valuable Skill

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Generative AI is rapidly transforming software development, with adoption of AI coding ...