Category Archives: Health care

‘This Should Be a National Scandal’: Medicare Advantage Plans Using AI for Denials

Medicare Advantage is neither Medicare nor an advantage.

As Foundation for ‘Excited Delirium’ Testimony by Police Cracks, Fallout Spreads

Rooting out the concept of “excited delirium” will take time in a country where law enforcement is spread across roughly 18,000 agencies governed by independent police chiefs or sheriffs.

CDC’s Weak and Vague N95 Guidelines Endanger Health Workers, Conflict with Cal/OSHA Standards

In the Covid version of fiddling while Rome burns, cheap hospital systems hide behind the CDC to avoid issuing N95s to front line workers

Patents and Intellectual Property in Biomedical Science: A History in Two Tales

How the US licensing of NIH and other government funded drug and biomedical research became a grift for Big Pharma.

FTC Chief Gears Up for a Showdown With Private Equity

Over the past three years, FTC and Department of Justice officials have signaled they would apply more scrutiny to private equity acquisitions in health care, including roll-up deals in which larger provider groups buy smaller groups in a local market.

Feds Need to Enlist Consumers to Police Eyepoppingly High Level of Medicare Advantage Ad/Marketing Fraud

Yet another reason to be leery of Medicare Advantage…..widespread deceptive marketing.

New Technologies to Get Around Old Laws: Algorithms Being Used to Evade Antitrust Rules, Fix Prices and Worse

Is organizing a price-fixing cartel still illegal if an algorithm tells you to do it?

Do Masks Work During the Pandemic? Scientists Say “Yes.” Secondary Reviews of Clinical Trials Say “No.” So, Which Is It?

Four authors with top statistical chops, including Yaneer Bar-Yam and Nassim Nicholas Taleb, stomp all over the anti-mask Cochrane Report.

Extra Fees Drive Assisted Living Profits

Assisted living facilities have become one of the most lucrative branches of the long-term care industry that caters to people 65 and older. Investors, regional companies, and international real estate trusts have jumped in.

Biden Administration’s Limit on Drug Industry Middlemen Backfires, Pharmacists Say

“Biden Administration initiative backfires” is almost a default title. But here, the consequences for pharmacies and patients are significant

Risks of Fracking Are “Real and Growing,” Report Warns

More evidence that fracking is not good for humans and other living things.

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Category Archives: Health care

‘This Should Be a National Scandal’: Medicare Advantage Plans Using AI for Denials

As Foundation for ‘Excited Delirium’ Testimony by Police Cracks, Fallout Spreads

CDC’s Weak and Vague N95 Guidelines Endanger Health Workers, Conflict with Cal/OSHA Standards

Patents and Intellectual Property in Biomedical Science: A History in Two Tales

FTC Chief Gears Up for a Showdown With Private Equity

Feds Need to Enlist Consumers to Police Eyepoppingly High Level of Medicare Advantage Ad/Marketing Fraud

New Technologies to Get Around Old Laws: Algorithms Being Used to Evade Antitrust Rules, Fix Prices and Worse

Do Masks Work During the Pandemic? Scientists Say “Yes.” Secondary Reviews of Clinical Trials Say “No.” So, Which Is It?

Extra Fees Drive Assisted Living Profits

Biden Administration’s Limit on Drug Industry Middlemen Backfires, Pharmacists Say

Risks of Fracking Are “Real and Growing,” Report Warns

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