doctors
The medical misinformation crisis is a crisis of access to doctors
My patient Claire and I disagreed. She was 44 years old and came to my clinic for a second opinion. The diagnosis was stage 3 rectal cancer. It started with blood in her stool and quickly progressed to weight loss and abdominal pain. I agreed with his previous doctors’ recommendations regarding surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. […]
Texas AG sues Sanofi for allegedly paying bribes to doctors Texas Attorney General sues Sanofi for allegedly paying bribes to doctors to prescribe its drugs
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) filed a lawsuit accusing Sanofi of offering kickbacks to doctors, in the form of a free network of nurses and insurance services, to increase prescriptions for its drugs. In doing so, the drugmaker would help manage key aspects of patient care that a doctor would otherwise have to manage […]
UnitedHealth pays Optum doctors 17% more than outside providers
Tara Bannow covers hospitals, providers and insurers. You can reach Tara on Signal at tarabannow.70. UnitedHealth Group pays its own medical practices far more than competing practices, a new study finds, bolstering STAT’s own analysis on the subject and presenting new evidence that the conglomerate could circumvent a rule designed to curb health insurers’ profits. […]
AMA does not properly represent doctors
The agenda of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Make America Healthy Again can make the front page of the newspapers, but his plans as a secretary for health and social services also include something that has been largely neglected: the revision of American health care expenditure priorities, targeting the current procedural terminology billing codes (CPT). Developed […]