USMLE Scores for Nepali Docs Will Remain Invalidated, Judge Rules
A Washington D.C. district court judge denied an emergency motion to restore score validity for 832 Nepali medical graduates whose U.S. Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) scores were invalidated due to accusations of cheating. Last week, Latika Giri, MBBS, a Nepali medical graduate who lives in Kathmandu, Nepal, launched a class action lawsuit against the National […]
Report: Medicare Advantage Plans Wrongly Deny Care, Physician Payments
Medicare Advantage plans often denied medically necessary care to beneficiaries and payments to doctors that met Medicare coverage rules, according to a new report from the HHS Office of the Inspector General (OIG). OIG found that 13% of prior authorization requests that were denied met Medicare coverage rules, as did 18% of physician payment requests […]