Topic: Health Care
Nursing Home Industry Profits Obscured by Related-Party Transactions
Management and real estate deals to owners’ firms siphon off most profits
Anticipating Overcrowding Risk in the ICU
A model vastly outperforms predictions based on prior hospital data
$52.6 Billion: Extra Cost to Consumers of Add-On Drug Patents
The figure is a subset, not covering huge expense of extended patents on high-priced biologics like Humira
Should the U.S. Aim for a Zero-COVID-19 Policy?
Tolerating a low level of transmission just might be the better strategy
A Psychological Approach to Helping Doctors Do Better at Doing No Harm
Behavioral nudges reduced doctors’ overprescribing and overtesting of older patients
Medicare’s Money-Saving Treatment Caps Leave Some Patients Behind
Paperwork issues at physical therapy providers curtail care more often for minority and low-income patients
A Major Medical Center Gets a Cheaper, Fairer Way to Assign Doctors
Model tells schedulers which anesthesiologists should be on call or on-site at specific times
Out of the Blue, a Colon Cancer Screening Kit Arrives
That approach, closer to an opt-out, beat three nudges, or opt-ins at encouraging younger people to get tested
How Medical Device Makers Reacted to Publication of a Once-Secret Database of Millions of Adverse Events
New product filings to FDA included stronger safety features and larger technological advances
Exploiting Regulatory Loophole Speeds Cancer Drug Development
Pharma companies seek OK for limited use, then expand sales through off-label prescribing, saving millions