Newly released federal audits reveal widespread overcharges and other errors in payments to Medicare Advantage health plans for seniors, with some plans overbilling the government more than $1,000 per patient a year on average.
Read more...Another account of the extent of the private equity health care grifting, as well as some avenues to check these abuses.
Read more...Some studies seek to understand why some dogs won’t eat the dogfood, as in accept what is considered to be scietific knowledge.
Read more...Taxpayers foot the bill for medical research, but drug companies profit. We need a new R&D model to stop this rentierism.
Read more...Centene earns billions of dollars from governments and then uses its profits to back the campaigns of the officials who oversee those government contracts.
Read more...Rishi Sunak has a Mission Impossible even before getting to his bad impulses. Most countries in the West face the same long list of problems
Read more...ome pointers on Covid test technique and use.
Read more...Rigid definitions of obesity can both restrict care for some and produce unwarranted alarms for others.
Read more...How medical research walked back the strong claims for the role of cholesterol in heart disease, which in turn supported the use of statins.
Read more...An unsparing look at some glaring deficiencies in reserach and training in medicine.
Read more...Private equity is buying up funeral homes, enticed by a large industry with reliable income that is still mainly populated by small businesses.
Read more...The pharma-funded system at the FDA is becoming more prevalent and, because of the funding structure now in place, will not be easy to unpick. With such a large proportion of the drug regulation budget deriving directly from drug makers, and more input from drug makers at every stage in the process, the divide between the FDA and drug makers is rapidly shrinking.
Read more...Masks as a mark of solidarity.
Read more...The Lancet Commission unintentionally shows that neolibealism helped cause the horrific public health response to Covid-19
Read more...Private equity continued to buy up and crapify more medical specialist practices. The latest target is eye care, particularly surgeries.
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