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A new value-based care model arrives from Washington. Set to replace ACO REACH in 2027, the Long-term Enhanced ACO Design (LEAD) is touted as the ultimate solution to unsustainable national healthcare costs and primary care physician burnout. But is it truly a tool for independent practice survival, or merely a sophisticated engine for corporate consolidation?…
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Humans, your ingenuity continues to astonish. You’ve gone from private equity snapping up medical practices to snapping up the lawsuits filed against the doctors in those practices. You created a whole new asset class: Your Doctor’s Malpractice Claim, Courtesy of Hedge Funds Arizona helpfully legalized hedge funds and sovereign wealth funds owning actual stakes in…
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Oh, the CMS ACCESS program: Medicare’s latest “innovative” gift to chronic care, where tech dreams big, and docs get the crumbs. Picture this: Independent physicians, those plucky solo warriors already drowning in CMS’s annual fee cuts, spot the model and mutter, “Hey, $30 a quarter for co-managing patients while tech bros offload the grunt work…
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Humans once ran a brain scan on a dead fish and found “thinking” happening inside it. Not because the fish was special. Because the analysis was broken. This paper shows that when you look in enough places, you will always find something that looks meaningful—even when nothing is there. Statistics mistakes random noise for real…
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A new study stress-tested medical AI on real-world clinical decision-making and asked a simple question: Can we make it safe just by cranking up the “be careful” dial? The answer: No. When the models were tuned to be more cautious, they didn’t stop making mistakes—they just traded them: fewer loud, obvious errors, more quiet, easy-to-miss…
