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Podcast: Surfing the MASH Tsunami
Episode: S3-E13.4 - The NICE Draft Guidance vs. The Economics of NAFLD: Not a Great Fit
Description: Episode 13 looks at the NICE Draft Guidance Evaluating FibroScan use in Community and Primary Care settings. This conversation focuses on underlying tensions between a methodology designed to assess big-ticket spending on critical moments of disease and a population screening approach that centers on wellness care more than illness care.This conversation starts with Roger Green noting an inherent tension between short-term health economic tests driving a decision not to compensate and longer-term healthcare priorities that rely on patients who cannot afford the test being able to take it. Ian Rowe describes this as a tension inherent in...