- How the war of words over vaccines is affecting doctors and patients.
- When it comes to cognitive capacities, the 70s are indeed the new 50s: A person who was 70 in 2022 had the same cognitive health score as a 53-year-old in 2000.
- New RFK rule would pay specialists less and primary care doctors more.
- CMS: the health care sector will grow faster than GDP — growing from 17.6 percent of GDP in 2023 to 20.3 percent in 2033.
- 80% of the money nonprofit hospitals get through public tax breaks is not being used for charity care.
- Paragon: health provisions in the BBB.
- The Valley of Death, with the median time from FDA approval of a novel technology to Medicare coverage is 5.7 years.
Category: Medicare
NYT: Medicare to Curtail Abusive Spending on Hyper-Expensive Bandages
Going after Medicare abuse is like playing whack a mole. Just when you think you have made some headway another mole pops out. The Biden Administration, and now the Trump Administration, is moving to limit the use – and limit the price paid – for so-called skin substitutes in Medicare. Skin substitutes are newfangled bandages.
Medicare to Finally Go After Waste, Fraud and Abuse
Medicare has a long way to go, but perhaps the agency is moving in the right direction.
Thursday Links
- Six traits make a person cool: extroverted, hedonistic, powerful, adventurous, open and autonomous.
- OBBBA Medicaid cuts will hit some states harder than others: California and New York would each face losses exceeding $100 billion.
- Cost of an Obamacare exchange bronze plan: Premium pus deductible = $11,758. And that’s every year.