- Lawsuit: Cigna algorithm rejects claims without a doctor even opening a patient’s records.
- Report: CMS’ Medicaid inflation penalty will make generic drug shortages worse.
- Virginia Medicaid paid at least $21.8 million on behalf of 12,054 enrollees after they were already dead.
- An expensive trip: a medically approved, psychedelic renaissance is underway.
- Did Gilead hold a promising HIV drug off the market in order to increase profits? (NYT) Economic theory would say no.
- Australia has “virtually eliminated” HIV transmission in Sydney and elsewhere.
Category: Cost of Healthcare
Diagnostic Errors Result in 800,000 Deaths or Disabilities per Year
Our health care system is inefficient with physicians’ time. One study found doctors spend about 17% of their time on administrative tasks. A systematic review of 23 specialties found physicians spend from 9 to 19 hours a week on administration. Overall, physicians spend 15.5 hours per week on paperwork and administration, according to the report. Of that,…
Tuesday Links
- Matthew Holt goes to Disneyland and sees …… fat people!
- Extending life expectancy in mice. HT: Tyler
- Why it’s hard to know how many people died because of Covid.
- A better way to practice drug price discrimination: plan by plan.
- New GAO report on improper pandemic payments: over $500 billion in fiscal years 2021 and 2022. [That equals $5,000 for every household in America.]
- Against the Endocrine Society’s guidelines on gender affirming care. (WSJ)
Monday Links
- Richard Hanania reviews Christopher Rufo’s book, America’s Cultural Revolution.
- Another review by Bryon Caplan: “The current denial of academic freedom truly is much worse than McCarthyism ever was.”
- Can psychedelics sometimes be useful?
- On an average night, close to 600,000 people in the country will be homeless, and about 20% will be dealing with severe mental illness. (WSJ)
- Two views of Jesse Jackson: NYT: hagiographic; WSJ: he was a dishonest shakedown artist who engaged in race baiting for personal profit.