medicine

Feels like GLP-1 rush day today as patients try to get their last refill before insurance changes tomorrow. 

Many insurance cos are dropping GLP-1 coverage for 2025 or making the requirements stricter

Its another reason why for many who are young and healthy and with good income, high deductable HSA plans make more and more sense. Keep more in pocket while getting pretax HSA funds to invest and direct health pay towards what you want. Most wearables, labs, even 8sleep accept HSA/FSA.

Becomes more relevant as consumer tech starts to have more TVL than traditional healthcare.

Not financial advice and everyone must look at it from their individual perspective.

Physician always trying to learn, passionate about healthspan and precision medicine.

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i'm excited for this year:

-new/faster/more codes for primary care focused on prevention
-push to decouple usa from high deductible plans
-trump saying he'll break pbm

The new genetics CPT codes are great to see and most welcome. Also lots more remote monitoring, virtual management and some AI augmented though most are focused on radiology.