HSAs And FSAs Were Designed to Give Consumers Control and Clarity of Their Healthcare Spending — Why Isn’t This Happening?

If HSAs and FSAs were functioning as originally intended, the rising out-of-pocket costs faced by most Americans would be met with increased financial fluency and agency.  The post HSAs And FSAs Were Designed to Give Consumers Control and Clarity of Their Healthcare Spending — Why Isn’t This Happening? appeared first on MedCity News.

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If You Could read My Mind – Wait, You Can?

By KIM BELLARD Over the years, one area of tech/health tech I have avoided writing about are brain-computer interfaces (B.C.I.). In part, it was because I thought they were kind of creepy, and, in larger part, because I was increasing finding Elon Musk, whose Neuralink is one of the leaders in the field, even more…

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If You Could read My Mind – Wait, You Can?

By KIM BELLARD Over the years, one area of tech/health tech I have avoided writing about are brain-computer interfaces (B.C.I.). In part, it was because I thought they were kind of creepy, and, in larger part, because I was increasing finding Elon Musk, whose Neuralink is one of the leaders in the field, even more…

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Quantifying treatment value under IRA

That is the title of my new publication out today with the subtitle “A case study of rifaximin for the treatment of overt hepatic encephalopathy using QALY and non-QALY measures“. This was work with co-authors Shanshan Wang, Leonardo Passos Chaves, Olamide Olujohungbe, Sanjana Muthukrishnan, and Aditi Chaudhary. The abstract is below. BackgroundTraditional cost effectiveness analyses…

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