Christopher Rowland Yesterday at 5:41 p.m. EDT Jamie Azar left a rehab hospital in Tennessee this week with the help of a walker after spending the entire month of August in the ICU and on a ventilator. She had received a shot of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine in mid-July but tested positive for the coronavirus […]
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Over 100 Democratic lawmakers last week introduced legislation to lower the Medicare eligibility age to 60. There is one small problem that needs fixing, though: so-called “Medicare Advantage.”
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Medicare Advantage organizations…have some incentive to improperly inflate their enrollees’ capitation rates, if these organizations fall prey to greed.
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By Jay Hancock, Kaiser Health News Updated 8:15 AM ET, Sat July 17, 2021 (KHN) The care was ordinary. A hospital in Modesto, California, treated a 30-year-old man for shoulder and back pain after a car accident. He went home in less than three hours. The bill was extraordinary. Sutter Health Memorial Medical Center
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Background Overtreatment is a cause of preventable harm and waste in health care. Little is known about clinician perspectives on the problem. In this study, physicians were surveyed on the prevalence, causes, and implications of overtreatment. Findings The response rate was 70.1%. Physicians reported that an interpolated median of 20.6% of overall medical care was
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