Category: Medicare
George Halverson on Why Medicare Advantage Provides Better Care
Amputations We spend $8 billion dollars a year on amputations, and the average amputation costs over $100,000… [R]oughly twenty percent of diabetic patients will develop ulcers on their legs and feet, and … twenty percent of those ulcers currently turn into amputations… The current pattern for all Medicare patients is for 20% of those ulcers…
Friday Links
- Last year CMS received 41,136 complaints about the marketing of Medicare Advantage plans. (WSJ, gated)
- Do breaks from surgery improve the performance of orthopedic surgeons? Yes. HT: Tyler
- Can a dead person fly? Not before the TSA pats her down.
- CDC’s latest message: You don’t have to do anything about COVID, except please go get your booster urgently.
- A summary of Fauci flip flops. (NYT, gated)
Friday Links
- 100% of large health insurers cover telemedicine for mental health and other behavioral health problems. (gated)
- However, more therapists are refusing to accept private insurance. (WSJ)
- Israeli study: Paxlovid (for Covid) lowered hospitalization rates in 65-year-olds and older by about 75%, but people ages 40-64 who took the drug shortly after infection saw little to no benefit.
- Kaiser: Most Medicare beneficiaries will soon get their coverage through Medicare Advantage.
- A liberal critiques Biden: He needs advisers who think like economists. A good read if you are an Yglesias subscriber.