by Randi Pincus | May 8, 2019 | Uncategorized
Survey Respondents Influenced by Claims Direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising about the radiotherapy (RT) known as CyberKnife (CK), which is currently omnipresent in the New York City transit system, creates “inaccurate impressions” about the...
by Randi Pincus | May 8, 2019 | Uncategorized
There has been increased direct-to-consumer advertising for Cyberknife (CK), a brand of stereotactic radiotherapy for prostate cancer. Evidence comparing CyberKnife with other prostate cancer therapies is limited. Columbia University Medical Center physicians...
by Randi Pincus | May 8, 2019 | Uncategorized
Last month, the insurer said it was removing Integrated Medical Professionals of Farmingdale, a urology and radiation oncology practice, and Port Jefferson Station-based New York Cancer & Blood Specialists, from its Medicare Advantage HMO and Dual Special Needs...
by Randi Pincus | May 2, 2019 | Uncategorized
CMS is letting radiation oncologists bill some E/Ms with superficial radiation therapy (SRT) that had previously been bundled. But those providers should look out: this may be a preliminary step before CMS puts in new regulations that may shake up their reimbursement....
by Randi Pincus | May 1, 2019 | Uncategorized
A bipartisan group of House lawmakers Wednesday (April 10) reintroduced legislation to give CMS the authority to exempt alternative pay models and those under development from some Stark, or physician self-referral, law provisions, shortly after HHS Deputy Secretary...
by Randi Pincus | Apr 18, 2019 | Uncategorized
Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield said about 7,000 patients of a Farmingdale-based urology and radiation oncology practice have been notified their doctors are being taken out of the network. Dr. Deepak Kapoor says “We have decades of doctor-patient relationships...
by Randi Pincus | Mar 19, 2019 | Uncategorized
A group practice in New York is centralizing business operations with their peers to keep practices independent in the face of rapid physician consolidation. Surviving as a small or independent practice in the current healthcare economy is hard. Providers are...
by Randi Pincus | Mar 19, 2019 | Uncategorized
A new law quietly went to effect last month that requires health insurers to cover the cost of routine prostate cancer screening. The new law places prostate-specific antigen screenings on the same level as mammograms. The intent is to encourage more men to take the...
by Randi Pincus | Jan 28, 2019 | Uncategorized
As the new Congress, with the House of Representatives now controlled by Democrats, opens up shop this month, physicians—urologists included—will be looking for action on several key initiatives important to their practices and patients. “We’re seeking to update and...
by Randi Pincus | Jan 4, 2019 | Uncategorized
Deepak A. Kapoor, MD championed the new law removing coinsurance and copayments for life saving prostate cancer screening. See the News 12 interview here.
