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Medical debt. Explaining Aaron Rodgers back-to-back MVPs? Amazon and One Medical. Judge rules on 340B. 2/3 of MD are experiencing burnout.
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Private equity in health care
Private equity investments have grown in health care in recent years. According to Appelbaum and Batt (2020), whereas in only 4.7% of leveraged buy-outs (LBO) were in health care in 2000, that number had risen to 12.2% in 2019. A 2022 white paper finds that investments in health care have risen even more: The number…
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Drug pull incentives and innovation. Symmetrical 4-set and 5-set Venn diagrams ICER white paper on rare disease. COVID-19, bullying and cyber-bullying. Rx provisions in the IRA.
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A path forward for digital therapeutics reimbursement. Med students don’t go to class. Hospital capacity constraints exacerbate racial bias. UnitedHealth moves to $0 copay for emergency drugs. IVI Methods Summit.
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Total work comp drug spend for 2020 was about $3 billion. “The share of high-SES friends among individuals with low SES… is among the strongest predictors of upward income mobility identified to date” Prescription video games. “The health care industry annually dumps approximately 550 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalents into the atmosphere.” “Sharia…
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Resurgence of polio. Compensation for hospital executives. Government exacerbating market concentration? Intergenerational persistence of opioid dependence. Durability of DTx.
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Does intermittent fasting work? Where are we on the monkeypox vaccine? What is “tranq”? What are the impacts of minimum wage in the short- and long-run? How big is the homeless population in the US?
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CPO: Chief Psychiatric Officer. Maximizing policy impact. Hospice and private equity. Stats on maternal mortality. Food price inflation and health.
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Rare disease burden 10x standard disease. The value of empathy. ACA and political adverse selection Are HDHPs obsolete? Are too many antibiotics prescribed due to fear of malpractice?
How accurate are provider directories?
The answer is, ‘not very’. That is according to a paper from Burman et al. (2022). Let’s say you want to schedule an appointment with a physician in your areas that is covered by your insurance. When you look up the physician, maybe you have found that the phone number no longer works, or that…