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by arkades 8y ago
I'd be really happy to see surprise billing come to an end. I'm not sure there's a good of way doing it, though. There's a fundamental tension: (1) People often need care quicker than their financial and insurance situat
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Ideas to Curb Surprise Medical Bills Percolate with Rare Bipartisan Push(healthleadersmedia.com)
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by arkades 8y ago
Traditionally, policy states that ER utilization is covered by a prudent layman's standard: if a reasonable person would think their condition is an emergency, then the ER visit is covered. Anthem/BCBS is now changing it to a retr
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Anthem’s emergency room coverage denials draw scrutiny(ajc.com)
3 points by arkades 8y ago|1 comments
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by arkades 8y ago
No. Those are disposable, not sterilized. There’s no chain of transmission.
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by arkades 8y ago
> Of HPV‐infected patients without evidence of CIN I, 80% cleared the infection, Over 50 percent of new HPV infections are cleared in 6 to 18 months, and 80 to 90 percent will have resolved within two to five years. > while HPV associ
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by arkades 8y ago
The ultimate tool of the government isn’t a courtroom, it’s a kalishnakov.
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by arkades 8y ago
> John Carreyrou wasn't an expert on phlebotomy or biochemistry. Roger Lowenstein wasn't an expert on hedge funds or technical finance. Eric Schlosser on nuclear command and control? Nope. Woodward and Bernstein and constitutio
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by arkades 8y ago
Not precisely, no. Her taxes will still be assessed on the market value of the property - meaning she's got to have enough revenue from the business (or just general personal wealth) to pay taxes on what the government will assess as i
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by arkades 8y ago
Every time someone says, "ugh, I'd pay for FB just to remove the ads" ... well, here you are. This is spotify's action to protect its revenue for its ad-supported free offering. You can pay to be rid of it . Absolutely
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by arkades 8y ago
A certain amount of the boat has to sink in order to stay level. If the bottom of the boat doesn't sink, it's balancing on a knife's edge - and topples over.
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by arkades 8y ago
If this is at all attractive to people, it's going to make insulin so damned expensive. The price of insulin is already rising: there aren't all that many generic manufacturers of it, leaving them in a competition-free market. If
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by arkades 8y ago
Same here.
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by arkades 8y ago
A good point. I feel a bit foolish for overlooking it.
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by arkades 8y ago
The resultant 12% oxygen is 60% of normal atmospheric air. It's still breathable, if you're an average healthy person with healthy cardiac and pulmonary function, sitting at rest - but it's not healthy, it's enough that
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by arkades 8y ago
Because private citizens aren’t given the same affordances. The double standard is objectionable.
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by arkades 8y ago
Doctors don’t get money from insurers for drugs one way or the other, barring infusions (think: chemo.) An explanation that involves the doc not getting more money from the insurance company sounds like it may have lost something in transla
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by arkades 8y ago
> Are doctors doing anything to end the requirement that patients get prescriptions for drugs? (A) Physicians are not some monolithic block. Whatever ones stance on the AMA, they are a single lobbying group. They are not the collective n
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by arkades 8y ago
The study lasted three weeks, encompassing three business weeks of Monday - Friday, for a total of 15 business days. The cryotherapy group came into the office for a chill every one of those 15 days.
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by arkades 8y ago
He probably got burned at some point and got scared. We get reviewed a lot more these days. "You prescribed a 5x higher dose than he needed!" "But I told him to cut it in five." "That's not what you wrote in yo
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by arkades 8y ago
Your first and last links didn't have references to primary articles of clinical assessments. Your third article was more of the same . Your second article was just funny because it pointed to the opposite therapy . > as a suffe
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by arkades 8y ago
> That seems like pretty fair context. You seem to be referencing a different article about Medicare reimbursement without actually citing it. That's a dodge. I'm not dodging anything. I'm pointing out that when I bother t
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by arkades 8y ago
So, I haven't seen this before. So I thought I'd take a look: Sources 1 and 4 are both from the "FoundMyFitness" folks. One is a YT video, and the other is a layman's article that, from what I see, is an argument in
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by arkades 8y ago
In the interest of not getting unnecessarily combative: I can't tell whether your comment was stated in a tone of "I generally think Gell-Man amnesia effect is misused on HN," or whether you meant it to directly criticize my
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by arkades 8y ago
Largely they lack context to interpret what they’re seeing. One that jumped out at me a while back: They were showing physician payouts from Medicare and presenting them as though they were salaries. Problem: some specialties carry overhead
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by arkades 8y ago
There are a number of physiologically plausible mechanisms underlying various plausible therapies that turn out not to have clinical effects. That is why we test them empirically. And this study was not structured to plausibly prove clinica
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by arkades 8y ago
> The subjects in the study group were additionally treated using a cycle of 15 visits to a cryogenic chamber carried out daily from Monday to Friday. In a 3 week study of treatment for conditions where social withdrawal is a critical el
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by arkades 8y ago
Know that Gell-Mann amnesia effect that comes up all over Hn? As a physician, former health insurance exec, and guy with a graduate degree in health policy: propublica deserves deep skepticism.
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by arkades 8y ago
It also underestimates the difficulty of finding such pairings to begin with. Most people seem to have trouble finding a 1:1 pairing that is long-term stable and desirable. Four adults, as depicted in this story, would presumably require a
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Facebook Enterprise Certificates Restored(9to5mac.com)
7 points by arkades 8y ago|0 comments

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