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Opinion: Reinventing health care in 2023

25.01.2023

After a year defined by record inflation and double-digit health care premium increases, I hope that a few years down the road we can eventually look back at 2023 as …

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First Opinion

Opinion: Upcoding: one reason Medicare Advantage companies pay clinicians to make home health checkups

19.01.2023

At the start of 2023, an estimated 2.5 million Americans age 65 and older began using Medicare Advantage programs. Some made this choice in response to aggressive marketing campaigns. This …

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First Opinion

Opinion: For addiction treatment, longer is better. But insurance companies usually cut it short

13.01.2023

Access to treatment for addiction has long plagued U.S. health systems. Why? Two reasons: It is expensive, and the long-term value of addiction treatment is often disregarded by insurance companies …

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First Opinion

Opinion: How value-based payments to clinicians can help close equity gaps

28.12.2022

The U.S. health system has been evolving over the past decade to focus on the quality and value of care. Until recently, though, value-based payment models have not explicitly addressed …

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Coronavirus

After nine months, an update on NIH’s long Covid research

22.12.2022

You’re reading the web edition of D.C. Diagnosis, STAT’s twice-weekly newsletter about the politics and policy of health and medicine. Sign up here to receive it in your inbox. Pandemic response gets …

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First Opinion

Opinion: Paid sick leave is good for workers — and U.S. public health

14.12.2022

The fight to expand access to paid sick leave continues even after President Biden decided not to include more than one day of paid sick leave in the recently “settled” …

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Health

Psychedelic therapy is moving to the next frontier: workplace perk

06.12.2022

Acupuncture and chiropractic care weren’t always the common fixtures of employer benefit plans they are today. It took clamoring from workers, the accumulation of evidence, and the slow realization by …

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Coronavirus

Medical malpractice lawsuits, delayed by the pandemic, are hitting hospitals harder than expected

05.12.2022

Carlos David Castro Rojas was a healthy 27-year-old engineering student when he fell off a ladder hanging Christmas lights in 2017, breaking his leg and injuring his knee.  What was …

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Pharma

Health and science are on the ballot this election. Here’s what we’re watching

07.11.2022

WASHINGTON — The midterm elections this year are centered on weighty topics: the economy looms large, as does the existential future of democracy. But there are plenty of health and …

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