Eric Appelbaum, MD

It's Time to Break Up Big Medicine UnitedHealth Group is not an insurer, it's a platform. And it's in the crosshairs as Elizabeth Warren and Josh Hawley propose breaking it apart, severing its pharmacy arm from the rest of the business

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“Policymakers need to stop micromanaging clinicians and patients in pursuit of less use of health care, and move power back to clinicians and their patients, and out of the hands of bankers. We have to see health care as public infrastructure”

I’d like a study looking at opportunity costs of surgeons waiting for ORs to turn over

Was literally discussing this with a patient in clinic today: that we didn’t yet have good information on this particular question— looks like now we do! Nice work!

The CPT codes for bone conduction implants are literally insane