The industry group for insurance companies will cover shots through 2027. They "clearly choosing to cover vaccines because they know that they are safe and effective,” @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social told me:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Who owns your health data? It should be you.
The AI arms race is making matters worse.
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@naturemedicine.bsky.social
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My book Coverage Denied comes out tomorrow & I'm grateful to @donmoyn.bsky.social for the space to lay out the core findings, which show how prior auth's extension into most corners of health care burdens patients & their physicians, and in doing so deepens inequity open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
Vitamin K shots for newborns help the body form blood clots that stop bleeding, but more families are declining the shots and are turning to oral Vitamin K, which is currently unregulated. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
When companies like Aetna or UnitedHealthcare want to rein in costs, they turn to EviCore, whose business model depends on turning down payments for care recommended by doctors for their patients.
(Published Oct. 2024 with @capitolforum.bsky.social)
Jeremy Berg
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
― James Baldwin
Melody Schreiber
Eric Topol
Putting Patients and Physicians in an Unnavigable Maze
This Viewpoint describes rising rates of parent declination of intramuscular vitamin K prophylaxis for newborns and recommends development of a US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)–approved oral form...
