This is a great video and if you read at the, news rigging has been a somewhat frequent content. To a degree, everyone is really becoming more skeptical of what’s in the news. Here’s a post from a couple of years ago, from Quant Cathy O’Neill, “On Being a S…
Continue ReadingHere we go again, and advertising from the Pittsburgh newspaper has also been cut, but the article states that has gone on for a few years with disputes over what has been covered in the news. This doesn’t surprise me as “news rigging” is very much out there…
I said from the start that this was an absolute made up story and nice to see Dr. Halamka at Harvard Medical address this. I have seen tons of articles written about this nonsense and now it’s all the way up to the FTC and members of Congress thinking this i…
One thing I think that can safely be said is Andy Slavitt, a one time Goldman Sachs banker and United Healthcare Subsidiary CEO of Ingenix who tons of folks sued for flawed calculating algorithms on short payments on claims is trying to divert some attention …
This has been a long case and just goes to show you how far back insurers have been using sophisticated and non sophisticated algorithms to cut payment to doctors. I saw this in the early HMO days in California with what we called the “floating patients” on …
I’ve been watching this for years with the way healthcare is changing in the US today and we certainly need and do use constructive and good measurements in what the industry does, but just like in the financial world, we’re starting to cross some borders her…
So let’s get down to what’s really happening here. Once upon a time the PBM models were a different type of creature but as time moved on they became less about a better and affordable price for prescriptions and more about and algorithmic machine to create …