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Americans owed about $140 billion in medical bills in collections. But two randomized experiments that relieved debt found no average effect on credit, financial distress or mental health.
When a large firm moved everyone to a high-deductible plan, spending fell about 12-14%. The catch: people cut valuable and low-value care alike, and barely shopped on price.
An econometric analysis of the 2019 European Health Interview Survey prices smoking-attributable inpatient and daycare hospitalisation across the EU — deliberately excluding every other kind of care.
A survey-based analysis of the European Health Interview Survey puts a price on Europe's obesity-related hospital use, and finds the strongest single association is not with obesity at all.
EyeFM was tested as an assistant to 16 ophthalmologists screening 668 high-risk patients in China. Patients in the AI arm also followed referral advice more often.
Singapore General Hospital randomised residents to work with and without an LLM assistant. Documentation time fell by 1.82 minutes, which was not significant. The economic model used the point estimates anyway.