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Podcast: Sensible Medicine
Episode: New Podcast -- Discussion with Rita Redberg and Angela Lu regarding Their Study on Conflict of Interest
Description: Angela Lu is training to be a physician. She’s interested in public policy. As a third year medical student, she teamed up with established leaders to ask a unique question regarding public disclosure of financial relationships. When the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issues National Coverage Determinations (NCDs) for services or products, they mean business. Such decisions have huge implications. You cannot go against them. Think #HighConsequences.CMS studies the evidence and publishes a proposed decision. It then allows public comments. People care. The idea behind their study, which made it in...