by Shanna Castro | Feb 7, 2024 | State Legislative Issues
What is new in CRA advocacy: CRA continues to work with the Department of Managed Health Care (DMHC) on the issue we raised with Anthem no longer paying for injections/infusion on the same day as when billing for an E&M office visit. DMHC has begun conversations...
by Shanna Castro | Jan 10, 2024 | News
Apart from the high transmission rate globally, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has seen a record number of clinical studies registered on ClinicalTrials.gov.From January 2020 to May 2020, there have been 17,998 published articles and 4385 preprints...
by Shanna Castro | Jan 10, 2024 | News
Many questions remain about how flu season might affect the pandemic, and vice versa. For example, would coinfection with influenza worsen the course of COVID-19? Experts also aren’t certain whether influenza vaccination could help protect against COVID-19 or whether...
by Shanna Castro | Jan 10, 2024 | News
Oxford University said on Wednesday it will study whether the prescription medicine, adalimumab (Humira), is an effective treatment for COVID-19 patients—the latest effort to repurpose existing drugs as potential coronavirus therapies. Full...
by Shanna Castro | Jan 10, 2024 | News
It was brought to the CRA’s attention that Anthem Blue Cross recently notified physicians that effective December 1, 2020, it will expand its specialty medication policy to also apply to its commercial PPO and EPO plans. This new PPO policy, which goes into effect for...
