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As this midterm-election year barrels toward decision day, health insurers continue taking punches from both political parties. The piling-on might be as unfair as it is understandable.  

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Boarding is hospital-speak for when patients get left in the emergency department, typically on gurneys or in wheelchairs, for many hours—sometimes days—because no inpatient beds are available. 

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Developer Anthropic released the tool to a small number of organizations in hopes they can find security vulnerabilities. Now comes a report revealing that a group of people on the popular Discord chat app have gained access. Mythos could be used as a powerful cybersecurity weapon.

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Prior to the new “RAPID” program announced on Thursday, it could take a year or more for Breakthrough-designated medical devices to earn approval for Medicare coverage. Now regulators say that timeline could be reduced to as little as two months.

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The largest single component of the overall project is likely to be the high-tech, high-touch hospital that’s now slated for opening in 2030.

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The U.S. Department of Justice said Wisconsin-based Apple Clinic and its owner Michael Johnson, MD, were using a combination of nerve density testing, vitamin injections and electrical stimulation to alleviate pain, billing Medicare for these medically unnecessary services. 

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