Did that drug you just took flunk its clinical trial? How about the course of treatment your doctor just recommended? Of course, you don’t know that because you have faith in the regulatory bodies, academic journals and researchers to be both competent and honest. And, of course, you know nothing of the perverse incentives to…
Category: Health Economics & Costs
Wednesday Links
- 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.
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)