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Category: Doctors & Hospitals

Hospital Employment of Physicians is a Pain for both Doctors and Patients

Posted on May 5, 2023 by Devon Herrick

When I was young physicians were an independent bunch. Most were self-employed males, who were either sole proprietors or in small group practices. In the past 20 or so years it has become increasingly common for doctors to work for someone else. According to Merritt-Hawkins nearly three-fourths (74%) of physicians now work for hospitals, health care systems or corporate entities. Of physicians accepting new work assignments today, 90% are accepting positions as employees rather than owners or partners.

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Friday Links

Posted on May 5, 2023May 4, 2023 by John C. Goodman
  • What a hospital in the home is like at Mayo. Note: this is only possible because of Covid relaxation of normal Medicare and Medicaid rules.
  • A proposal for value-based drug pricing. I am skeptical
  • AI is learning how to read your mind. MRI scans reveal unexpressed thoughts.
  • Private industry developed a nonaddictive painkiller. The FDA is why it isn’t widely available. (WSJ)
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AI Chatbot Judged More Empathetic than Physicians

Posted on May 2, 2023October 8, 2024 by Devon Herrick

The human language artificial intelligence ‘chatbot’ ChatGPT scored higher on empathy than its human counterparts in a recent study of medical questions and answers. When compared to human doctors the AI chatbots answers were preferred 80% of the time. The study appeared in JAMA Internal Medicine. The study used questions from Reddit’s AskDocs social media forum. One possible weakness about…

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Tuesday Links

Posted on May 2, 2023May 2, 2023 by John C. Goodman
  • George Halvorson: “The death rate for many dual eligible patients [in traditional Medicare] with some conditions runs at about 40 percent, and we know from a year-long study … that the death rate for the people who enrolled in the Medicare Advantage [special needs plans] was 3 percent.”
  • More from Halvorson on fee-for-service Medicare: “the program has 10,000 billing codes for procedures and not one billing code for a cure.”
  • Survey:  More than 25% of pilots admitted to being untruthful on medical forms — and nearly half turned to nonprofessionals for medical advice versus seeing a doctor.
  • Under the public health emergency, employers can offer stand-alone telehealth benefits to benefits-ineligible employees like part-time or seasonal workers. Hard to believe employers need the government’s permission to do this.
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