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Dear Fellow Colleague: National Doctors’ Day is Sunday, March 30, 2025. And even though the one-day observance is several days away, we here at MedLearn
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I’ll start with a quote from Yogi Berra, who once said it’s “tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” As I speculated in February,
EDITOR’S NOTE: Research input for this report was provided by Kate Choi, a junior at Brown University and a current government affairs intern at Zelis.
It has nearly been six months since 42 CFR 422.101(b)(2) within the Code of Federal Regulations was officially set into motion on Jan. 1, obligating
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