By: KTVZ.COM news sources Posted: May 10, 2019 08:32 PM PDT Updated: May 10, 2019 08:33 PM PDT SALEM, Ore. – The Oregon Health Authority announced Friday that the Health Evidence Review Commission (HERC), will reopen discussions on the coverage guidelines related to neck and back pain implemented in 2016, beginning this winter. OHA and…
Category: April 2019
PORTLAND BUSINESS JOURNAL OREGON OFFICIALS TO REVISIT BACK PAIN GUIDELINES AND REVISE CHRONIC PAIN PROPOSAL
OHA’s neck pain guidelines may be revised. By Elizabeth Hayes Staff Reporter, Portland Business Journal May 10, 2019, 1:40pm PDT Oregon health officials are rethinking their approach to chronic pain coverage and mandatory tapering off of opioids for Medicaid patients. The Oregon Health Authority on Friday announced two major developments in a saga that has…
Richard, We have done everything possible…….
It’s never ending. Went in to see Wound Therapy (WT) for a Arabella cleaning on my venus stasis ulcers on my legs two days ago. The results were, “Richard, we have done everything possible and we have the most aggressive WT treatment plans around where other hospitals come to us for help. We need to…
KAISER HEALTH NEWS POSTED THIS ARTICLE YESTERDAY ON FAULTY MEDICAL DEVICES
FDA To End Program That Hid Millions Of Reports On Faulty Medical Devices By Christina Jewett, May 3, 2019 (EyeEm/Getty Images) The Food and Drug Administration announced it is shutting down its controversial “alternative summary reporting” program and ending its decades-long practice of allowing medical device makers to conceal millions of reports of harm and malfunctions…
MOST RECENT CDC RELEASE PERTAINING TO OPIOIDS.
CDC – OPIOID GUIDELINES SHOULD NOT BE USED TO TAPER PATIENTS April 24, 2019 By Pat Anson, PNN Editor The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has taken its first concrete step to address the widespread misuse and misapplication of its opioid prescribing guideline. In a commentary published in The New England Journal of Medicine,…
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