by Karen Weintraub | Oct 18, 2022 | Blog
What is Vabysmo? According to the manufacturer (Genentech), VABYSMO (faricimab-svoa) is a prescription medicine given by injection into the eye, used to treat adults with Neovascular (Wet) Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD or nAMD) and Diabetic Macular Edema...
by Karen Weintraub | Oct 4, 2022 | Blog
The Opioid epidemic continues to plague many individuals resulting in overdoses and in some cases death. According to the CDC, in 2020 almost 75% of drug overdoses were attributed to or involved an opioid. Opioid death rates (which included individuals prescribed and...
by Karen Weintraub | Oct 1, 2022 | Blog
Prior to the 2023 Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code set, there were several codes specifically used for hospital observation services[1]: CPT 99217 (Observation discharge) 99218-99220 (initial observation care) 99224-99226 (subsequent observation care) All of...
by Karen Weintraub | Sep 1, 2022 | News
Gartner recommends Payers “invest in PPI solutions that detect and prevent improper payments in addition to those that perform retrospective claims payment analysis.” Healthcare Fraud Shield is a one stop shop providing healthcare companies the tools they need...
by Karen Weintraub | Aug 1, 2022 | Podcast
Welcome to Season 3, Episode 4 of the Healthcare Fraud Shield podcast. In this episode Karen Weintraub (along with an appearance from her mighty blue macaws) will discuss our Shared Analytics initiative across clients used to detect emerging schemes, and trends for...
