- Primary care physicians providing a higher proportion of telehealth visits cared for more Black, Hispanic, dual-eligible, and medically complex patients.
- To make telehealth access permanent for Medicare patients, let the rate be lower than the rate for in-office visits.
- Mobility: More than three out of four Americans (76.8%) will be in the top 20% by income for at least one year between ages 26 to 60, and about one out of three will be there for ten years or more!
- “We show how fraud is driven by a combination of inadequate (expected) penalties for fraud and imperfect reimbursement rates.”
Author: John C. Goodman
Monday Links
- The Government Accountability Office has calculated that over the past 20 fiscal years, the federal government has paid more than $2.8 trillion in improper payments. Over 53 percent of reported fiscal year 2024 improper payments originated from the Medicare and Medicaid programs.
- Public school finance: Where is all the money going?
- China is now the second largest producer of new pharmaceuticals.
- Alan Simpson: Politics is derived from Latin. Poli means many and tics means blood-sucking insects.
- Need surgery? Monday is a lot better than Friday.
- 97% of young adults who follow the Success Sequence escape poverty by their late 20s and early 30s.
Saturday Links
- 9 states are mulling Medicaid work requirements.
- Homelessness explained.
- Family matters: odds of going to college vs. odds of going to jail.
- Has Dr. Oz undergone a remake?
- Embarrassing findings from the past release of classified documents.
- Physicians and nurses have fewer emergency department visits for their own care than the rest of us.
Wednesday Links
- Elon Musk: AI-powered sex robots aren’t far away from the U.S. market: “less than five years probably.”
- Disney has spent $270 million on Snow White ($450 million, if you include prints and advertising costs, according to Vulture), and it hopes everyone will ignore the movie.
- The federal work force has been rising. What are all those people doing?
- The greatest inequality is among the elderly, and the most important reason is differences in the amount people choose to save over their work life.
- Up until the 1980s it was widely believed that babies could not feel pain. So, doctors subjected them to a lot of it.