Watch out for Eli Lilly's Orforglipron- though the official trial data needs to be seen, based on early reports and as described in NYTimes piece- orforglipron appears to have the potential to lead in the class of GLP-1/dual GLP-1/GIP agonists. A daily pill may be as effective

beckershospitalreview.com/glp-1s/glp-1s-… How is hospital care affected? Hospitals are feeling the effects of GLP-1 uptake, and widespread weight loss could affect hospital strategy and operations downstream. The medicines are leading to magnified weight loss programs, more transplants, a

How about shifting the reliance on medicare funding for GME (residency/fellowship) to private inititiaves such as hospital funded programs- after all its the hospitals who rely on residents talents and hard work to provide care to patients- is it too much to ask hospitals to foot

"Thirty-one percent of physicians said prior authorizations are often or always denied." From a personal standpoint, stat 5 has been my experience as well. If there is an easier way by which physician determined treatment plan is allowed to continue even as payers (health

Fed decision not to cut rates is a myopic decision. I am no expert by any means on economic matter but a common sense based observation shows that inflation is cooling and other nations are already cutting interest rates including European Central Bank. Someone of the stature of

A man's life must be nailed to a cross either of Thought or Action. ~ Sir Winston Churchill

Medicare and Medicaid Fail a Basic Scientific Test by Yet Congress has never demanded a randomized, controlled trial to investigate whether Medicare and Medicaid improve health, much less conditioned their existence on two successful trials. One might think such measures are

Will likely not be liked by lobbying groups and AMA but I think this is a welcome move!! Medicare proposes ‘efficiency’ pay cuts that would hit highly paid specialists the most statnews.com/2025/07/16/med… via STAT

This is a much needed change! I am very supportive of the current administration support for overhaul of the physician paymemt structure which is loopsided and is one of the reasons that lead to patient dissatisfaction and ever rising health care costs. From the pages of NY

Behold, what I have seen to be good and to be fitting is to eat and drink and find enjoyment in all the toil with which one toils under the sun the few days of his life which God has given him, ~ Book of Ecclesiastes