MHE February 2024

Two-thirds of high severity likely due to upcoding, according to a RAND study of hospitalizations in five states.

Christopher Starr, M.D., of Weill Cornell Medical College in New York discusses of the challenges of making a diagnosis and a new treatment.

How health plans and self-insured employers coped with the huge number of prescriptions for weight loss. It started with off-label Ozempic (semaglutide) and now there’s FDA-approved Wegovy (semaglutide) and Zepbound (tirzepatide).

On public health, Medicaid and Medicaid managed care, and profit seeking in healthcare.

xCures says artificial intelligence and machine learning can help make sense of disparate medical records.

The number of people living to 100 is growing in the U.S. and around the world. Defying the overall trend of older people having more health issues, they are not major users of healthcare.

The success of mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 has led to a surge of mRNA vaccines being developed for other diseases.