Out-of-Pocket Insulin Caps Boost Savings — But Not Insulin Use
While out-of-pocket caps on insulin indeed cut down on costs for commercially insured patients in the U.S., the policies didn’t do much to increase insulin use, claims data showed. After such policies were implemented in eight such states, insulin users under age 65 had a 17.4% (95% CI -23.9 to -10.9) relative reduction in costs […]
AI Not Ready to Replace Radiologists Interpreting Chest X-Rays
Commercially available artificial intelligence (AI) tools were accurate to varying degrees in flagging chest x-ray abnormalities but turned up more false-positives than radiology reports, a Danish study found. Testing four CE-marked AI tools on real-world radiographs from the Copenhagen region, investigators reported areas under the receiver operating characteristic curves ranging from 0.83-0.88 for airspace disease, […]