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 Christine Kao/STAT Is it time to freak out about bird flu? Ongoing transmission in cattle means that every day in this country, a virus that is genetically suited to infecting wild birds is being given the opportunity to morph into one that can easily infect mammals. Read more. By Helen Branswell
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Inside UnitedHealth's strategy to pressure physicians: $10,000 bonuses and a doctor leaderboard UnitedHealth Group relied on a variety of tactics — money, peer pressure, and guilt — to incentivize doctors at one of its practices to pile diagnoses onto Medicare Advantage patients, a STAT investigation finds. Read more. By Tara Bannow, Bob Herman, Casey Ross, and Lizzy Lawrence
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How invisible medical groups are powering telehealth's GLP-1 'gold rush' The telehealth GLP-1 boom wouldn't be possible without clinicians willing to write prescriptions for those hundreds of thousands of patients. And a STAT examination found that just a handful of networks of doctors, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants are writing prescriptions for dozens of websites offering weight loss drugs — including the compounded versions that have been the subject of conflict and debate among clinicians and industry members. Read more. By Katie Palmer In case you missed it... |
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