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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...

Insurance companies now stating Peer-to-Peer's are now "for educational purposes only" and if you want to an appeal a decision the PATIENT (not the doc) has to initiate and go through the formal appeals process themselves.

Has anyone else experienced this? It's absolutely insane. As if peer to peer wasn't ridiculous enough now they are doing away with the system entirely...

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...

Chronic myeloid leukemia, a 17-year-old, his mother, and Make America Healthy Again collide in Oklahoma (gifted article)

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/magazine/maha-cancer-treatment-doctors-cps.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-1A.yeZP.AMPybLj7cTTG&smid=url-share Brief Synopsis The patient Presten is a 17-year-old boy with epilepsy (resolved) and autism who was diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) in 2024. His mother,...