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Out Of Control Healthcare Spending

Byadmin September 7, 2016

Wondering where all your spare cash is going lately? Probably to healthcare:

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Nudging Docs with Threatening Letters
Byadmin September 10, 2018

I recently spoke with Margot Sanger-Katz at the New York Times. She’s an awesome healthcare reporter. She wrote a nice piece on some recent nudging research. Here’s the beginning of the article to whet your appetite: The letters doctors received from the county medical examiner included a shocking fact: A patient you once prescribed an…

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Robots Taking Over the Surgical World?
Byadmin March 6, 2013

In a recent Atlantic post, James Hamblin reports on the increasing frequency with which surgeons perform hysterectomies with the assistance of robots. Here is a picture from that post: To be clear: robotic surgery doesn’t mean a robot performs the operation. Instead, the surgeon uses a laparoscope, usually, and the surgeon controls the tools at…

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Charging Copays and Deductibles During a Pandemic Is Foolish—and Deadly (Newsweek)
Bypeter April 8, 2020

In areas of the country hardest hit by COVID-19, clinicians are already being forced to make tragic rationing decisions: about who to admit to the hospital, who to transfer to the ICU and who to place on scarce ventilators. These decisions feel out of character with our national identity. We normally think of ourselves as…

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More on US Healthcare Prices
Byadmin October 5, 2017

In a recent post, I showed two drugs that were much more expensive in the United States than elsewhere. One was for rheumatoid arthritis and the other for hepatitis C. Today we get to look at a cancer drug, Avastin, and just how much more Americans pay for it than people in other countries. This…

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Debate Rages Over Obamacare, Medical Costs
Byadmin October 3, 2013

When Dr. Jeffrey Rice needed to schedule outpatient foot surgery for his son three years ago, he called the recommended facility to find out what it would cost. The estimate was so high — $15,000 to $25,000 — that Rice asked the surgeon for a second option. The cost for the same one-hour procedure at…

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Are Healthcare Profits Unethical?
Byadmin August 3, 2015

I recently spoke with Audiey Kao, an ethics expert at the American Medical Association. Our conversation has been released as a podcast. We talked about quite a few things, but the part I enjoyed the most involved a gentle disagreement about healthcare profits. Here is a link to the podcast: AMA Journal of Ethics Podcast:…

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Out Of Control Healthcare Spending

Nudging Docs with Threatening Letters

Robots Taking Over the Surgical World?

Charging Copays and Deductibles During a Pandemic Is Foolish—and Deadly (Newsweek)

More on US Healthcare Prices

Debate Rages Over Obamacare, Medical Costs

Are Healthcare Profits Unethical?

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