Are Usual and Customary Charges Reasonable?

An editorial about the use of usual and customary charges for out-of-network benefit determinations.

Reap what you sow. Group reaps millions in unpaid claims with claima dispute process.

Read the story of one group's efforts to recoup money owed from unpaid claims with a systematic approach. The partnership of emergency physicians, urgent care physicians and hospitalists recoups about $4 million annually from these efforts.

Net energy expenditure of gravity-independent high-speed resistive exercise done by women.

Introduction: Elevated metabolism is common to spaceflight while exercise in microgravity exacerbates energy costs. Thus in-flight exercise countermeasures must be devised that minimize energy costs as they are performed on hardware operable in microgravity.

Methods: Female subjects (N = 28), subdivided into athletic and sedentary groups, each performed two workouts on a resistive exercise device (Impulse Training Systems; Newnan, GA).