- How an (apparently) serious study of a vegan diet became fodder for a blatant propaganda film.
- Medicaid’s claim denials are higher than in Medicare or commercial insurance.
- GAO: Improper payments in Medicare and Medicaid top $100B. The number for Medicare Advantage is $17B – a little more than half of the total for traditional Medicare.
- Oprah ignores the downside of weight loss drugs.
- Jim Capretta reviews Obamacare – including all the provisions that either didn’t work or have been repealed.
- After completely screwing up Covid tests, the FDA now wants control of all other laboratory developed tests.
Category: Medicare
Friday Links
- California had the worst job growth of any state.
- How Medicare pays providers: for the fiscal year that began on October 1, the new rule for hospital inpatient care is just short of 800 pages, with three columns of text for most of the published pages. The physician fee schedule and skilled nursing facilities rules for 2024 run 1227 and 147 pages, respectively.
- Other things equal, 3 psychological traits (competitiveness, risk tolerance, and confidence) lead to higher incomes.
- The Institute for Clinical and Economic Review determined that a cost-effective price for the newly approved gene therapy Lenmeldy is between $2.3M and $3.9M. Orchard Therapeutics, will be asking $4.25M.
- Why is colon cancer rising among young adults, but falling for seniors?
Is Universal Dental Coverage the Next Obamacare Expansion?
Public health advocates have long considered dental care a neglected area of medicine, with dentistry in a silo of its own. Obamacare was intended to provide universal health coverage and boost access to medical care. However, it did not expand dental coverage beyond what was included in Medicaid expansion. Dental insurance must be purchased separate from health insurance for most people.
Tuesday Links
- Why your EV is mostly made in China even if it is produced in the U.S.
- NYT finally admits that Covid school closures were harmful.
- Primary care costs less in Medicare Advantage.
- Research has linked diets high in ultra-processed foods to increased risks of obesity, Type 2 diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular disease and depression.
- Roughly one in five relatively healthy people over the age of 50 has at least one organ that is aging much more quickly than the others.