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On May 12 the Trump administration announced a revival of the “Most Favored Nation” (MFN) drug pricing executive order (EO) similar to one it unsuccessfully tried to implement in President Trump’s first term. Apart from including Part D drugs and some more aggressive language than last time, administration officials did not immediately say how this attempt would achieve a different result.
 
 
The following chart summarizes the AMA’s March 14 technical corrections related to the new E/M telemedicine codes (98000-98016).
 
 
When CMS released a list of 63 preventive service codes that could be reported with an E/M service and complexity care add-on code G2211 in CMS 100-20, Change Request 13705, people discovered several services were missing. A new change request updates the list.
 
 
Some trends in both technology and government – including the artificial intelligence (AI) boosterism of new CMS administrator Oz Mehmet, M.D. – suggest a bigger role for AI in health care, including the clinical space. While many experts counsel a go-slow approach, some entrepreneurs are bullish.
 
 
The proposed ICD-10 code changes — released with the FY2026 Hospital Inpatient PPS (IPPS) proposed rule on April 11 — include a new code for type 2 diabetes mellitus in remission, more than 100 new codes to capture non-pressure chronic ulcers in various stages as well as new codes for malignant inflammatory neoplasms. 
 

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