They “have begun testing the new health-care venture they’re developing with Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc., rolling out some of the new offerings to employees in a handful of states.” | learn more
“Fund the HSA deductible, as Indiana and Whole Foods do, and put real prices on everything.” | learn more
“Hospital emergency rooms throughout California are reporting a sharp increase in adolescents and young adults seeking care for a mental health crisis.” | learn more
“Welcome to Coffeyville, Kansas, where the judge has no law degree, debt collectors get a cut of the bail, and Americans are watching their lives — and liberty — disappear in the pursuit of medical debt collection.” | learn more
“Scammers bent on defrauding Medicare are embracing the new technologies of remote diagnosis. Federal law enforcement is cracking down.” | learn more
“…[W]hen the system was compared against … dermatologists, primary care physicians, and nurse practitioners … the team reports that its top three predictions demonstrated a top-3 diagnostic accuracy of 90%, or comparable to dermatologists (75%) and “substantially higher” than primary […]
“You wouldn’t think that chess players, who sit for hours on end and extend their arms only from time to time, would struggle with weight loss. But they do. Inside the very real, very bizarre metabolic phenomenon gripping chess.” | learn more
The NY Times covers the surge in research behind psychedelics and the role of author and podcaster Tim Ferriss. | learn more
An opinion piece. “It’s easy to criticize pharmaceutical and insurance companies. But we spend much more on hospitals.” | learn more
Well, this is fun! Sometimes you just need that discount MRI, right? | learn more