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Options for CMS price negotiation. Magic mushroom medicine. CBO’s options for reducing provider reimbursement. Orthopedic surgeons and private equity. New Alzheimer’s drug. Value-based payment and US health spending.
Category: Current Events
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Nursing home administrators opinions on COVID-19 Home births on the rise. Physician work-life balance: 2001-2021 Cross country comparison: Health financing and health outcomes Top scientific advances of 2022.
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Reference pricing in Germany. End of life therapy after checkpoint inhibitors. Private equity and healthcare. medRxiv vs. peer-reviewed journals. Health benefits of long-term care insurance.
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Do doctors get too much or too little respect? Why you should use a matched-pair design for your RCT. Fertility care and sickle cell disease. Pandemic’s impact on workers’ comp financials. Incentives matter.
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Will Switzerland to accept devices approved by FDA? What is a superager? Marijuana substitutes for opioids for cancer patients? What is ‘Brokenism’? Can you use dating apps to fight STDs? Quotation of the week: “Everything bad comes from change, but so does everything good” The Tablet
NHS Scotland to institute cost sharing? Pause access to new drugs?
That is according to an article today from the BBC. NHS leaders in Scotland have discussed abandoning the founding principles of the service by having the wealthy pay for treatment.The discussion of a “two-tier” health service is mentioned in draft minutes of a meeting of Scotland’s NHS leaders in September. They also raise the possibility…
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Impact of elections on health care. “This is our COVID” Are patient satisfaction scores harming patients and physicians? The cost of satisfaction. Proposal for a healthcare minimum wage. Crypto news: Don’t regulate crypto. SBF interview.
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Costs and benefits of advance preparations for future pandemics. ISPOR Europe Round-ups: Day 1, 2 and 3 Impending intergenerational crisis. Limited COVID-19 vaccine externalities? Free insulin (not real) Puerto Rico’s health success in the mid-20th century.
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Are you at risk of your physician dropping you? Rankings offer no sense of scale. Cardiac xenotransplantation. What is a square? Neighborhood Atlas.
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Reforming the WHOs Essential Medicines List. Should countries ban dual practice by physicians? Evidence on alcohol use. College vaccine mandates and COVID deaths. Using natural experiments for analysis of population health. 4 in 5 pregnancy-related deaths are preventable.