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Chemotherapy shortages…and a solution? FTI Healthcare Q3 in review. Walgreens dives into telehealth. Who profits most from America’s baffling health-care system? Showtime!

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FDA’s START program for gene therapies for rare disease. Impact of retirement on health behaviors. COVID impact on health care workers: reduced altruism? ICER solution to IRA’s elimination of QALYs? evLYG. Ghost therapists. Interview with Katalin Karikó.

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ICER’s reference case. Digital therapeutics: What the US can learn from Europe. Digital clinical trials in mental health. What happens to health programs if the government shuts down? Medical debt in the US.

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Biosimilar “skinny labels” Expensive generics? EU to ban payment for milk, sperm and blood Google Health on AI. Victor Fuchs has passed away..

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Excess mortality in China after ending “Zero COVID” Responsiveness to private health insurance subsidies among the elderly. power=0.06 New COVID vaccines for all. ChatGPT made zero “grossly inaccurate” statements when presented with a standard set of eye complaints.

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CMS pushing an all-payer model? The real secret to blue zones. New approaches to treating pain. COVID excess deaths by political party. “We have a specialty-driven system. Primary care is seen as a thankless, undesirable backwater.”

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Cost sharing analogy: “hydrologist charges travelers high prices for well water” ABCD. AI-generated Narx Score. Does AI already drive safer than humans? FDA: protector or obstacle?

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GPT-4 writing code. AI gives a patient their voice back. Productivity and hospitals. Impact of Long COVID in workers’ comp. “Insurers negotiated median hospital prices for commercial plans that were two to three times higher than their MA prices in the same hospital for the same service.”

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Do Medicare Advantage beneficiaries understand their plan? How much are doctors paid in England? Health insurance exchanges and reinsurance. Utilization management for Part D cancer drugs. “340B Program participation has not demonstrated improved quality of inpatient care among Medicaid or uninsured patients.” Economic Incentive for timely completion of confirmatory clinical trials.

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Value-based care and operational context. Miss diagnosis. Explaining variation in health care costs: ⅘ utilization, ⅕ prices. All of Us. Enneagrams.