2014 NYC Hep B Awareness Week Press Conference The Council of the City of New York Office of Communications City Hall New York, NY 10007 July 21, 2014 Contacts: Sam Spokony : 212-788-7259, sspokony@council.nyc.gov Jefferey LeFrancois : 212-564-7757, jlefrancois@council.nyc.gov Jo...
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Awareness and advocacy are especially important now, because the Viral Hepatitis Testing Act of 2013 (HR 3723) is sitting in the Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health and it needs your help! This important bill would authorize $80 million over three years to increase essent...
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The updated recommendation comes after growing evidence on the effectiveness of antiviral treatments, and is in line with recommendations from the CDC and the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases. The USPSTF has a separate Grade A Recommendation on screening fo...
The Hep B Vaccine Birth Dose Honor Roll: recognizes hospitals and birthing centers with excellent birth dose coverage.
In recognition of Hepatitis Testing Day, May 19, The AIDS Institute has released a Hepatitis C (HCV) Testing Coverage Guide to assist health care providers with navigating each of the major healthcare payers’ coverage options for preventive services, specifically for HCV screen...
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Reimbursement, Coding & Compliance for Gastroenterology
We have the tools to prevent the major causes of viral hepatitis and liver cancer – a hepatitis B vaccine and effective treatments that reduce disease progression, new diagnostics for HCV and treatments that increase cure rates over 90%, and even more medical advances in the re...
