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5% of patients account for 48.8% of total US healthcare spending, 1% account for 20.7%

https://meps.ahrq.gov/data_files/publications/st540/stat540.shtml The most commonly treated condition among the top 5 percent of spenders in 2019 was hypertension (46.2 percent), followed by osteoarthritis/other non-traumatic joint disorders (44.5...

Prior authorization isnt utilization management anymore. Its unpaid clinical labor.

I spent almost an hour yesterday getting a prior authorization pushed through for a medication the patient has been stable on for two years, and...

Low health literacy: patients don't know how many pills they're taking each day?

Im reading an article on uptodate on "Heart failure: Self management". One passage reads: -- For instance, while 71 percent of low-literacy patients in one study could...

Cause of Death- we have to stop making unforced errors communicating what led to someone dying, especially around vaccine preventable diseases like measles

Obligatory fuck RFK Jr and Bill Cassidy for voting him in. Anti-vaxxers like RFK Jr will never argue in good faith, however we must stop giving...

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5% of patients account for 48.8% of total US healthcare spending, 1% account for 20.7%

Prior authorization isnt utilization management anymore. Its unpaid clinical labor.

Low health literacy: patients don't know how many pills they're taking each day?

Cause of Death- we have to stop making unforced errors communicating what led to someone dying, especially around vaccine preventable diseases like measles