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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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