Physician conversion factors:
2000: $36.6173
2003: $36.7856
2006: $37.8975
2009: $36.0666
2012: $34.0376
2015: $35.7547
2018: $35.9996
2021: $34.8931
2024: $32.7442
UHC stock up 8,556%
Insurance premiums up 342%
Inflation up 86%
Physician pay down 10%
We should keep cutting physician pay so families have more money in their pockets through reduced costs and reduced premiums based on the last 25 years of experience.
@Vanguard_Group I'm so disappointed with your terrible plan and customer service surrounding this move of solo 401ks to ascensus. Planning to move all of my investments out of vanguard due to this shortsighted move and will encourage others to do the same.
Really incredible article about an insurance company disciplining a doctor for following the standard of care.
https://t.co/eCNceE5xIc
Looks like their “experts” are just as bad as some of the most crooked plaintiff experts I see.
Should insurance companies dictate the educational needs of EPs? (Spoiler alert: No.)
Humana threatened to report James Moak, MD, to the National Practitioner Data Bank, saying the decision was final & not subject to appeal … for a patient he never saw. https://t.co/eADIJiDPhl
Private equity acquisition of hospitals, on average, was associated with increased hospital-acquired adverse events despite a likely lower-risk pool of admitted Medicare beneficiaries, suggesting poorer quality of inpatient care.
https://t.co/PUQu7u1nSc
On a recorded call, a @UHC nurse and an insurance broker laugh while discussing a patient whose claim had just been rejected.
They agree that any appeal would be a waste of the family’s time and money:
“We’re still gonna say no.”
https://t.co/fuM3lUdqlc
#TipsForNewDocs
You are now a physician, a member of an ancient and honorable profession.
You are not a "provider."
That term was created by the government and insurance companies to decrease your power in the doctor-patient relationship.
Accept no denigration.
• United Health will PROFIT about $22.3 billion this year.
• 50% of hospitals will lose money this year.
• 47% of US healthcare workers plan to leave within the next 3 years.
That is the current state of US healthcare, and it should terrify everyone.
This @CNN article is biased & promotes the villainazation of practicing physicians. In general media is being incentivized to do this- they’re using it to justify decreasing physician reimbursement, the use of non-physician practitioners, AI tooling etc…
https://t.co/xeWNCnr4e7
The projected 250,000 annual deaths in the US were extrapolated from a single study done 18 years ago in a single Canadian academic center's high acuity area where, of 503 patients, a single patient died of aortic dissection.
3/8
Recklessly faulty research that undermines the public’s trust in emergency departments cannot stand. EMRA joins EM organizations in addressing the misleading recent @AHRQNews report on ED diagnostic error
https://t.co/722dm9rDvC @nytimes
1/8
When adjusted for inflation, Medicare physician payments have dropped by 22% from 2001 to 2021. So why are you cutting it more? How much money have you saved? You’re digging in the wrong place. @SecBecerra@HHSGov@CMSGov
I just want to make a few things clear:
The Holocaust happened.
Hitler was a demonic figure.
And instead of giving it a platform, our political leaders should be calling out and rejecting antisemitism wherever it hides.
Silence is complicity.
New study of almost 600,000 deaths in Ohio and Florida shows that registered Republicans had far higher excess-death rates than registered Democrats during the pandemic, with almost all of the gap coming after vaccines were available.
https://t.co/OG4kVq3SrB