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That’s not really true. Insurance companies use intercompany eliminations to bypass the rules. Look at United Healthcare’s record-breaking profit. https://www.axios.com/2021/07/16/…

Trust me it isn’t 6%. United is one of the largest healthcare companies by market cap. They have aggressively acquired physicians under Optum, and use an accounting trick called in…

I must mention that I wrote the article titled “Opportunistic detection of type 2 diabetes using deep learning from frontal chest radiographs” (you can find it here: https://www.na…

In a remarkable demonstration of the capabilities of large multimodal ResNet models applied to chest X-ray images, we've revealed how the integration of EMR data can enable accurat…

Cherry picking and lemon dropping does happen in value-based systems, but there has been work to address the issue. No simple answer, but basically you pay doctors more for select …

Actually, we are increasingly doing that already in the US. Value-based healthcare, aka Medicare Advantage uses something called risk adjustment. Payments are based on patient demo…

All metrics of scientific evaluation are bound to be abused. Goodhart's law [...] states that when a feature of the economy is picked as an indicator of the economy, then it inexor…