Regulatory flexibility for Medicare to cover telemedicine is set to expire at the end of the year unless Congress acts quickly. Many experts are fully committed to telemedicine while others think the benefits have been exaggerated.
Wednesday Links
- Making HSAs more accessible for gig workers.
- Key to Trump’s goal of 3% growth: deregulation.
- How good are randomized control trial studies?
- Thirteen reanalyses (35%) led to interpretations different from that of the original article, 3 (8%) showing that different patients should be treated; 1 (3%), that fewer patients should be treated; and 9 (24%), that more patients should be treated.
- Biden proposes to cover weight loss drugs. Ten-year cost: $25 billion for Medicare and $11 billion for Medicaid.
- Health policy opportunities for Trump.
NYT: Seniors Visit Physicians Often (too often in some cases)
Visiting the doctor is often an exercise in inconvenience. I once read that when you include travel time, waiting time, filling out paperwork, waiting in the exam room and talking with office nurse, that 15 minutes of face time with your doctor takes up about three hours out of your day.