Diet, eating regimen and Medicare Benefit plan ethics had been outstanding themes on this week’s episode of the Debunked podcast. MedCity Information Editor in Chief Arundhati Parmar was joined by Paul Markovich, president and CEO of Ascendiun — the nonprofit dad or mum firm of Blue Defend of California. Debunked co-host Samir Batra, managing associate of Well being Innovation Pitch, was away on trip.
When he’s not scrapping medical analysis, Secretary of Well being and Human Companies Robert Kennedy Jr is eager on decreasing meals components, akin to synthetic flavors and colours, as a part of the administration’s initiative Make America Wholesome Once more (MAHA).
In June, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed a invoice into regulation requiring that groceries containing a number of of 40 elements embody a warning label along with requiring diet training and train to be taught in elementary, secondary faculties and medical faculties. Different states are wanting into related laws.
That kicked off a wider dialogue concerning the relationship between eating regimen, train and weight problems. Markovich cited a Duke College examine that checked out “correlations between financial growth, each day vitality expenditure and the rise in a rustic’s weight problems stage”. The examine concluded that adjustments in eating regimen is the primary reason for weight problems within the U.S. and different developed international locations.
Arundhati and Paul additionally mentioned among the highlights of the July Home Methods and Means Joint Well being and Oversight Subcommittee Listening to on Medicare Benefit plans. One subject is that suppliers, sad with reimbursement charges, are dropping MA plans. However a bigger concern rests with a DoJ investigation into alleged MA plan practices, akin to sending physicians to residence visits and reporting diagnoses codes with elevated threat adjustment scores with out offering the remedy primarily based on these diagnoses.
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