Corporate health insurers’ use of AI to deny coverage is too often killing and disabling people. People in Medicare Advantage, people in State health insurance exchanges and people with...
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Office of Inspector General finds insurers inappropriately deny...
Healthcare Finance reports on new Office of Inspector General findings regarding high prior authorization denial rates in Medicaid managed care as well as a high likelihood that some people with...
Congress should overhaul drug patent laws to ensure Americans...
Anyone who thinks that the pharmaceutical industry should continue to be able to gouge Americans with their near-monopoly pricing power should recognize that this power is preventing people from...
Should the US guarantee everyone basic health insurance coverage?
In their new book, “We Got You Covered,” Amy Finkelstein and Liran Einav propose a total overhaul of our US health care system that would guarantee everyone basic health insurance...
Corporate health insurers use NaviHealth algorithms to deny care...
Beware of corporate health insurers that use NaviHealth, an AI system tha can inappropriately deny care to people in Medicare Advantage plans. Former employees at NaviHealth report that its AI...
Being mildly overweight in older age has its benefits
Judith Graham writes for CNN on the advantages and disadvantages of being mildly overweight in older age. Surprisingly, experts report that some additional weight has its benefits. Of course, there...
Medical device corporations and physicians harm patients through...
The New York Times reports that Medicare’s outpatient payment system has led to many people receiving unnecessary and often harmful medical procedures. Medical device manufacturers receive...
Beware experimental Alzheimer’s drug trials
Melody Peterson reports for the LA TImes on how pharmaceutical companies enlist Californians with Medicare to participate in a clinical trial for experimental drugs intended to stave off...
Which outpatient drugs are costing Medicare the most?
In a little more than a month, we will know which ten outpatient prescription drugs will be subject to Medicare price negotiation under the Inflation Reduction Act in 2025. (That’s if the...
Senator Sanders wants a commitment from President Biden to lower...
Senator Bernie Sanders is refusing to join with President Joe Biden and fellow Democrats to support the president’s nominee to head the National Institutes of Health. The Washington Post...