apyrros

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by apyrros 2y ago
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/unitedhealth-optum-provider...
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by apyrros 2y ago
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 intercompany eliminations to shuffle profits and skirt the law
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by apyrros 3y ago
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.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-39631-x ).
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Opportunistic detection of type 2 diabetes using deep learning from chest x-rays(nature.com)
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by apyrros 3y ago
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 accurate predictions of Type 2 diabetes. Much akin to the prin
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by apyrros 5y ago
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 patients. https://relentlesshealthvalue.com/
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by apyrros 5y ago
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 demographics and select disease categories (HCC codes) with bund
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by apyrros 5y ago
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 inexorably ceases to function as that indicator because peopl