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Adding to its other pioneering prescription drug programs under Medicare, the Biden administration announced on Wednesday it would issue a request for information (RFI) on a potential “Medicare $2 Drug List Model” that would make some much-used drugs for hypertension, high cholesterol, and other common conditions available to Part D beneficiaries for a couple of bucks.
 
Get ready to dig into more than 400 code changes as part of the 2025 CPT code set. That includes 270 new codes, including dozens of surgical codes, as well as 112 deletions and 38 revisions.
 
You’ll also find numerous guideline changes within the 2025 CPT Manual, with expanded guidance for the new CPT-based virtual check-in service and online digital E/M services. The AMA released the revised CPT code set in September, while the full guidelines are now accessible as the books are available for purchase ahead of the Jan. 1 implementation date.
 
 
Recent Gibbins Advisors analysis finds that “a relatively high percentage (30%) of very large health care bankruptcies (liabilities >$500M) were [private equity]-backed.” This suggests that the large scale of PE acquisitions, and their tendency to “roll up” smaller entities into larger ones, makes their managers likely to opt for bankruptcy as a tool when finances get difficult.
 

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