Medicare Advantage Uses Algorithms to Block Care for Seniors
How AI is institutionalizing Medicare Adantage fraud, to the degree that appeals of denials often outrun the patient’s life.
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California’s Covid Misinformation Law Is Entangled in Lawsuits, Conflicting Rulings
California’s Covid censorship law has not yet been killed by the judiciary, sadly.
Read more...Medicare Plan Commissions May Steer Beneficiaries to Wrong Coverage
More Medicare “buyer beware” alerts.
Read more...How Does SARS-CoV-2 Cause Disease? A Current Report
A new paper recaps what the more solid studies have found about how SARS-CoV-2 does harm.
Read more...Feds Move to Rein In “Prior Authorization”, a System Private Health Insurance Use That Harms and Frustrates Patients
Most patients have no means of avoiding the burdensome process that has become a defining feature of American health care. But even those who have the time and energy to fight back may not get the outcome they hoped for.
Read more...Body Dysmorphic Disorder Is More Common than Eating Disorders Like Anorexia and Bulimia, Yet Few People Are Aware of Its Dangers
A profile of body dysmorphic disorder.
Read more...Biden Administration Urged to Take More Aggressive Steps to Relieve Medical Debt
The Biden Administration has yet to take comparatively easy steps to reduce medical debt abuses.
Read more...Salve Lucrum: The Existential Threat of Greed in US Health Care
A big reason US health sucks is that the government refuses to crack down on abuses like price gouging and billing games.
Read more...One Texas Judge Will Decide Fate of Abortion Pill Used by Millions of American Women
Abortion foes have opened another potentially big front with an attack on the FDA approval status of an “abortion pill” medication.
Read more...Mark Cuban Has Been Taking On the Drug Industry. But Which One?
Billionaire owner of the Dallas Mavericks gets into the pharmaceutical industry.
Read more...Reversing 30 Years of Damage from the Clintons, the DOJ Closes A Price-Fixing Loophole Wide Enough to Drive a Truck Through
Why are you paying so much for everything? DOJ admits that decades-old carveout allowed even non concentrated industries to effectively build cartels to coordinate prices and wages
Read more...Rose Marie Counts Wins “Classification Struggle” over Smile, Dental Work with HR Department of Pennsylvania Convenience Store Sheetz
Celebrating a victory for workers everywhere (and especially non-smilers).
Read more...‘We Ain’t Gonna Get It’: Why Bernie Sanders Says His ‘Medicare for All’ Dream Must Wait
“[Healthcare] is a dysfunctional system that to my mind needs to be fundamentally changed to a Medicare for All system — but we ain’t gonna get it.”
Read more...Evidence-Based Medicine for the Modern Age of Artificial Intelligence
Evidence-Based Medicine remains a subfield of Big Pharma marketing and conventional neoliberal economics.
Read more...Did Your Health Plan Rip Off Medicare?
KHN has released details of 90 previously secret government audits that reveal millions of dollars in overpayments to Medicare Advantage health plans for seniors
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