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In experienced hands, the Ross procedure was associated with favorable short- and long-term outcomes in young patients requiring aortic valve replacement (AVR), according to a retrospective cohort study.
Survival was 95.1% at 10 years 88.5% at 15 years among more than 1,400 adults undergoing the double-valve procedure at highly specialized centers, Mostafa Mokhles, MD, PhD, of Utrecht University Medical Center in The Netherlands, and colleagues reported. The Ross procedure continues to be the only living-valve alternative in young and middle-aged patients with a reported survival that compares with the general population well into the second postoperative decade, the group wrote in
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Welcome to the latest edition of Investigative Roundup, highlighting some of the best investigative reporting on healthcare each week.
Docs to Prison for Opioid Overprescribing
Several physicians were recently sentenced to jail time for illegally distributing controlled substances, particularly opioids.
Myron Rodos, DO, was sentenced to 5 years in prison and fined $300,000 for running a pill mill in North Philadelphia, where he illegally doled out oxycodone and methadone to patients in exchange for sex and money, according to the Department of Justice.
Peter Steiner, MD, a psychiatrist in Louisville, Kentucky, was sentenced to 5 years in prison for distributing unnecessary buprenorphine and fentanyl to multiple patients over several years. According to the Louisville
A chance for change.
Despite these challenging times, challenging in so many more ways than we could ve ever imagined, the new year brought some hope related to one part of our broken healthcare system, and it was a change that we never even really saw coming.
Although there s so much more to go, so many things that need fixing, many of us were surprised by the new CMS 2021 guidelines about Medicare billing and compliance. Who would ve thought?
For so many years, the rules and regulations about what needed to be in a progress note to allow a certain level of billing created massive note bloat, endless pages of useless information that really only got in the way of trying to take care of patients and communicate from one provider to another. All of a sudden, seemingly out of the blue, new guidelines were released which change the focus from documentation of everything under the sun to now only requiring that we just put down what happened and what we thought.