FDA-approved, Medicare-paid blood test for colon cancer | Microbiome kits: Wild West of Gut Health | Healthcare dealmaking to heat up in 2023
Praveen Suthrum
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Good news, bad news for GI in 2023 CMS physician fee schedule (MDedge)
CMS uses its annual updates of the Physician Fee Schedule to make myriad policy decisions, with the 2023 version of the rule running close to 3,000 pages.
Healthcare dealmaking will heat up in 2023 with plenty of corporate cash, PE 'dry powder' (Fierce Healthcare)
Increasing transaction volumes and players embracing value-based care—coupled with large levels of corporate cash and PE "dry powder"—are leading to continued expansion.
Guardant Health announces positive results from pivotal ECLIPSE study evaluating a blood test for the detection of colorectal cancer (Business Wire)
The positive results by Guardant Health will pave way for the first potential FDA-approved and Medicare-reimbursed blood test for colorectal cancer screening.
Gastro Health and Lynx.MD Partner to Create the Largest Repository of Real-World Clinical Data in the Gastroenterology Space (Gastro Health)
Gastro Health's collaboration with Lynx.MD will create a repository of real-world evidence that can be used for research that improves the quality of GI care.
Microbiome Home Test Kits Are The Wild West Of Gut Health (Inverse)
Direct-to-consumer gut microbiome tests are increasingly popular, but experts argue they may do more harm than good.
4 Key Predictions for Health Care in 2023 and How to Respond (American Hospital Association)
Provider organizations can expect significant evolutionary changes in optimizing patient engagement, the expanding role of retail clinics, and upheaval in venture capital funding for healthcare startups.
An Overview of Guideline Updates for IBS-C (ReachMD)
Dr. Peter Buch dives into these guideline recommendations with Dr. Arnold Wald, a Professor of Medicine at the University of Wisconsin.
A frozen capital market and an insurance premium shock: 10 healthcare predictions for 2023 from top investors (Fortune)
A list of predictions published by Fortune, which include the consequences of weight loss drugs, increasing health tech M&A, expected uptake of ICHRAs and more.
Iterative Health Partners with Gastro Health to Accelerate Clinical Research in Gastroenterology Through Artificial Intelligence (Business Wire)
The partnership brings Iterative Health’s AI Recruitment technology to Gastro Health to help identify patients for clinical trials.
metaMe Health Named to the 2022 CB Insights Digital Health Top 150 List (HCP Live)
metaMe Health is recognized by industry leaders worldwide for their achievements in pioneering prescription digital therapeutics (PDTs) for gastrointestinal conditions.
Physician leadership is needed now more than ever (Medical Economics)
Today’s healthcare environment presents outstanding opportunities for physicians to develop lasting improvements in care delivery by demonstrating and providing leadership.
Apollo-Backed GI Alliance Names Katten Partner as Legal Chief (Bloomberg Law)
The GI Alliance has hired Benjamin Griffith as chief legal officer after a physician-led buyout valued the largest US gastroenterology practice at roughly $2.2 billion.
Capsule Endoscopy Prep in the Colon Low-Volume Regimens Work Fine (GI & Endoscopy News)
For bowel prep before colon capsule endoscopy, two low-volume regimens were as effective or superior to a standard high-volume prep according to a study.
New advances in surveillance and screening in Barrett’s esophagus (AGA)
AGA provides guidance for using existing methodologies as well as emerging and novel screening technologies.
Risk stratification may improve NAFLD intervention in obese, overweight populations (Healio)
Results from a meta-analysis underscored the need to improve understanding of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease burden and management in at-risk individuals who are overweight and obese.
December Issue of The American Journal of Gastroenterology (AJG)
The December issue of The AJG introduces new hypothesis on gravity’s role in IBS, Multi-Society findings on diversity, equity, and inclusion, and plan for GI in mitigating climate change.
Performance and comparison of artificial intelligence and human experts in the detection and classification of colonic polyps (BMC Gastroenterology)
The study aims was to analyze the performance of different AI models in endoscopic colonic polyp detection and classification and compare them with doctors with different experiences.
Nanotechnology Could Help Us Cure IBD (Medscape)
University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers are developing nanoparticles — particles measuring between 1 and 100 nanometers (one-billionth of a meter) — designed to treat IBD, including Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis.
5 gastroenterology ASCs to know (Becker's GI & Endoscopy)
Here are five ASCs specializing in gastroenterology that were among Newsweek's "America's Best Ambulatory Surgery Centers 2023" list (Compiled by Becker's Healthcare)
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