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Doctors are incentivised to prescribe medicines, not improve health - Oct 2023


How PCPs are penalized for positive outcomes from lifestyle change

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One example: Dr. reduced diabetes by lifestyle changes

  • However, the CMS 5-Star Rating System assigned the primary care physician a grade of C rather than A, which put the physician›s 5-star rating at risk. Why? Because the system bases its score largely on medication compliance. The physician was penalized despite achieving the optimal health outcome, and at a lower cost than with medication. "

Medicare incentivizes disease management, not disease reversal

  • "Rather than automatically managing disease with ever-increasing quantities of costly medications and procedures, lifestyle medicine clinicians first pursue a goal of health restoration when appropriate. But Medicare risk adjustment incentivizes physicians to manage rather than reverse disease. "
  • "But a physician utilizing diet alone to achieve remission in a patient with type 2 diabetes is penalized financially because, when the risk is adjusted, diabetes is no longer listed among the patient›s conditions. So, Medicare pays the physician less money. That misalignment incentivizes clinicians to manage the symptoms of type 2 diabetes rather than achieve remission, despite remission being the ideal clinical outcome."

News Release was reported on by Grassroots Health - Oct 2023

124+ VitaminDWiki pages have DOCTOR OR FDA in the title

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Off topic – FDA buried evidence of fraud in 78 of 600 clinical trials – Feb 2014 03 Nov, 2024
The US is not as healthy now, and the FDA is one of the reasons - Nov 2024 03 Nov, 2024
FDA 03 Nov, 2024
FDA study of 4 million children found 2 COVID-19 vaccination red flags, but continue to push boosters – May 2024 07 May, 2024
2 reasons doctors not aware of post-vaccination myocarditis (2.5% of jabs) - Nov 2023 29 Nov, 2023
17 reasons why are doctors reluctant to accept vitamin D 28 Nov, 2023
FDA drug to TREAT child Type 2 diabetes (based on 1 trial of only 50) – June 2023 10 Nov, 2023
Doctors are incentivised to prescribe medicines, not improve health - Oct 2023 27 Oct, 2023
FDA hired a person to study flu vaccine effectiveness, found problems, was fired 23 Oct, 2023
Doctors in NY cannot opt out of COVID boosters for children - Oct 2023 02 Oct, 2023
FDA declared Vitamin D as Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS) - Jan 2023 06 Sep, 2023
Magnesium reduces hypertension - FDA allows claim - Jan 2022 04 Sep, 2023
One in five people with long COVID can no longer work (Doctors in this case) - Sept 2023 02 Sep, 2023
FDA - many studies 27 Aug, 2023
mRNA Vaccine Toxicity -free book by Doctors for COVID Ethics - Aug 2023 26 Aug, 2023
What if we paid doctors to keep people healthy - TedTalk 2017 24 Aug, 2023
Doctor got MS and was later cured by high-dose Vitamin D - Aug 2023 10 Aug, 2023
An apple a day keeps the doctor away (reduces all-cause mortality by 35%) – July 2023 31 Jul, 2023
Doctors for COVID Ethics 29 Jul, 2023
The FDA Wants to Interfere in the Practice of Medicine - WSJ Jan 12, 2023 05 Feb, 2023
New FDA head chosen because he had the fewest ties to big Pharma - Nov 2021 05 Feb, 2023
Kellogg got the FDA to allow a tiny amount more Vitamin D in cereals and bars – Dec 2022 06 Jan, 2023
FDA drug section gets 75% of its income from Big Pharma - Oct 2022 21 Oct, 2022
Doctors Still Struggle to Diagnose a Condition That Kills More Than Stroke (Sepsis, Vitamin D helps) Oct 2022 16 Oct, 2022
Merck’s antiviral – FDA OKed Dec 2021, sold pills worth 5 billion dollars, found to not reduce hospitalization – Oct 2022 08 Oct, 2022
400 doctors, scientists declare “international medical crisis” due to COVID-19 vaccinations - Sept 2022 02 Oct, 2022
The FDA, CDC and most other Western govt. regulators only approve patented, profitable, COVID-19 treatments - June 2022 30 Sep, 2022
FDA proposal: Healthy cereal can have 1 g of fat, 230 mg of sodium and 2.5 g of added sugars per serving - Sept 2022 28 Sep, 2022
Congress members demand FDA Investigate COVID-19 Vaccine Injuries – Sept 2022 26 Sep, 2022
FDA approved 5-11 vaccine booster (based tiny unpublished study without asking advisory panel) May 2022 17 May, 2022
FDA allows 2 specific Vitamin D and 2 Omega-3 health claims - 2019 31 Dec, 2021
Many doctors continue to believe 2,000 IU of vitamin D is max (Hungary in this case)– Dec 2021 07 Dec, 2021
Doctors want to prescribe alternative COVID treatments and not give vaccines needlessly - Summit Nov 6, 2021 06 Nov, 2021
Off topic: Conflicts of Interest at the FDA - NYT April 2015 07 Sep, 2021
America Desperately Needs a Much Better FDA - NYT Sept 2, 2021 07 Sep, 2021
Doctors have a lot to learn about Vitamin D (Polish doctors in this case) – July 2021 22 Jul, 2021
COVID-19 doctors not allowed to use treatments that work - Dr McCullough Video and transcript May 2021 11 Jul, 2021
After 57 years FDA is declaring NAC to be a drug (note: 16 trials are investigating NAC ability to fight COVID-19) – June 2021 18 Jun, 2021
COVID-19 what it is, prevention by Functional Nutrition doctor - Feb 2021 26 Feb, 2021
The FDA should consider vitamin D as a pharmaceutical agent for COVID - Dec 21, 2020 22 Dec, 2020
New drug application to FDA for a probiotic which might treat COVID-19 – Nov 19, 2020 20 Nov, 2020
COVID-19 was killing dark-skinned doctors, then they got a Vitamin D recommendation 28 Oct, 2020
Off Topic: FDA does change after lots of money and decades of pressure (amalgum in this case) - Oct 2020 06 Oct, 2020
1,200 IU of Vitamin D now recommended if you consume 3,000 calories daily (FDA) – 2018 06 Oct, 2020
Many doctors believe that high dose vitamin D can fight COVID-19 – BMJ April 2020 14 Apr, 2020
Synthetic EPA drug recommended to FDA for Cardio (Omega-3 is 8 X better) – Nov 2019 13 Jan, 2020
Patients believe that doctors do not properly recognize and treat 7 of the top 10 chronic illnesses – Oct 2019 13 Oct, 2019
FDA allows the claim that Vitamin D “supports healthy pregnancies and promotes full-term births” – Oct 2019 11 Oct, 2019
Graphic warnings on cigarette packages in 118 countries, US FDA trying again – Aug 2019 15 Aug, 2019
Doctor prescribed 200,000 IU Vitamin D2 weekly during pregnancy (wrong type, far too much) – Jan 2019 04 Jan, 2019
Dutch doctors still have a lot to learn about Vitamin D – survey Dec 2018 25 Dec, 2018
Multiple Sclerosis - Coimbra Protocol (high-dose Vitamin D) - by one of the 120 doctors of 20,000 patients - Dec 2018 08 Dec, 2018
Do not expect your doctor to know about vitamin D 22 Oct, 2018
Overview for Doctors 20 Oct, 2018
Some employers offer vitamin D testing, some doctors reduce doses, even if deficient – July 2018 17 Oct, 2018
More than half of the FDA entire budget now comes from Big Pharma, not the govt. – Sept 2018 28 Sep, 2018
Doctors not consistent on prescribing Vitamin D (Pakistan in this case) July 2018 12 Jul, 2018
Replies to doctor’s comments about high dose Vitamin D for Multiple Sclerosis– Nov 2016 27 Jun, 2018
Vitamin D Council vs FDA concerning vitamin D deficiency in blacks and others - June 2011 13 May, 2018
FDA petitioned to acknowledge that vitamin D cuts preterm birth rate in half – May 2018 13 May, 2018
Opiates: “It smells like doctors being bribed to sell narcotics, and that's very disturbing” – March 2018 09 May, 2018
FDA decided to double vitamin D in milk after talking 4 times with by Dr. Matthews – July 2016 03 Apr, 2018
Poor Vitamin D awareness in UK – 25 percent of parents, 14 percent of doctors properly identified children – March 2018 18 Mar, 2018
Vitamin D does not reduce the risk of Multiple Sclerosis – FDA conclusion which ignored 5 studies – Jan 2018 16 Jan, 2018
Vitamin D does not reduce the risk of Multiple Sclerosis – FDA incorrect conclusion – Jan 2018 16 Jan, 2018
Doctors rarely (15 prcnt) talked about Vitamin D and with very little ambiguity (96 prcnt)– Aug 2016 09 Jan, 2018
A gestational dose of vitamin D per day keeps the MS doctor away (2X reduction) – Nov 2016 05 Dec, 2017
Vitamin D food labeling requirements by FDA – May 2016 07 May, 2017
Off topic - original meanings of physician, doctor, surgery, healing, hygiene, panacea, etc. 29 Apr, 2017
Vitamin D prescribed for fragility fractures by 66 percent of Canadian doctors, huge range in dose size – Sept 2015 16 Mar, 2017
Do not expect a doctor to recommend a pill which will eliminate his job (vitamin D) 27 Feb, 2017
Doctor got multiple sclerosis, rejected then embraced Coimbra protocol for herself and patients – Jan 2017 01 Feb, 2017
Gut doctors becoming aware of importance of vitamin D – May 2012 04 Nov, 2016
Twice as many neonates got vitamin D after instructions to doctors were simplified. – Aug 2014 13 Sep, 2016
FDA says all blood should be tested for Zika – at a cost of 150 dollars per unit – Aug 2016 26 Aug, 2016
FDA raised Vitamin D to 800 IU (now to be designated as 20 micrograms) July 2016 27 Jul, 2016
FDA doubles the amount of vitamin D permitted in milk – July 2016 23 Jul, 2016
FDA raises the amount of vitamin D2 fortification in bread – Aug 2012 17 May, 2016
Immune system and vitamin D (from kidney doctor’s point of view) – Feb 2014 14 May, 2016
Doctors Say Top Athletes Take Vitamin D And So Should You - CBS News Feb 2016 05 Feb, 2016
Doctors: If you pick one vitamin, make it D (99 cent ebook) – Jan 2016 21 Jan, 2016
The One Test All Doctors Need to Order for Their Patients – Mercola Jan 2016 17 Jan, 2016
Great Vitamin D webinar for doctors - Plotnikoff Nov 2013 04 Jan, 2016
Outdoor activities prescribed by 20 French doctors to treat diseases associated with low vitamin D – Nov 2015 13 Nov, 2015
2000 IU of vitamin D- doctors trained that it was too much, but it is often too little 30 Sep, 2015
Interview of Doctor who has authored books on Vitamin K2 and Magnesium – Mercola June 2015 28 Jun, 2015
Off topic: Video sessions with doctors now paid for by several US insurance companies – April 2015 30 Apr, 2015
Only 1 in 10 UK parents had been told about vitamin D by their child’s doctor – April 2015 29 Apr, 2015
Some doctors fail to see the evidence that vitamin D can prevent chronic disease – Jan 2015 18 Mar, 2015
Doctors not yet convinced that Vitamin D Helps, trials with 20,000 participants underway - Feb 2015 23 Feb, 2015
Antibiotic resistance will kill 300 million in 35 years, FDA doing nothing, UK considering wrong things – Feb 2015 18 Feb, 2015
FDA considering raising adult Vitamin D, but not for adults who are senior or pregnant- Feb 2014 18 Feb, 2015
UK people and doctors still clueless about vitamin D – Survey Oct 2014 27 Nov, 2014
Many doctors still belief (incorrectly) that more than 800 or 2000 IU of vitamin D is toxic - Oct 2014 10 Nov, 2014
Off Topic: FDA advisors have many conflicts of interest 24 Sep, 2014
VITAMIN D: Public Shouldn’t Wait For Doctors To Usher In New “Golden Era” Of Preventive Medicine 17 Aug, 2014
Wonder when the first doctor will be found liable for not providing vitamin D to a patient 06 Aug, 2014
Preschool children with low vitamin D visited their doctor more often – April 2014 29 Jul, 2014
A doctor becomes aware of vitamin D deficiency in Brazil, a sunny country – June 2014 10 Jul, 2014
I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more - 1870 11 Jun, 2014
Off topic: The best six doctors anywhere and no one can deny it 03 Jun, 2014
Osteoporsis doctors need to prescribe 800 IU of vitamin D - study proposed of how to tell them – May 2012 14 Apr, 2014
FDA considering raising Vitamin D RDA to 800 IU - Feb 2014 27 Mar, 2014
Prison doctor on lack of vitamin D in solitary confinement – July 2013 08 Mar, 2014
Instant vitamin D test now available for doctors to test at very low cost – March 2013 08 Mar, 2014
Application to FDA for use of active Vitamin D for hemodialysis patients – July 2011 18 Feb, 2014
Far too expensive to have FDA approve vitamin D – Dec 2013 22 Dec, 2013
A UK doctor doubts that more than 400 IU is needed during pregnancy of white women – June 2013 22 Sep, 2013
Most young Americans not getting even 600 IU of vitamin D from the sun – FDA Aug 2011 29 Jun, 2013
Most German skin cancer doctors recommend both sunscreen and vitamin D – Dec 2012 12 Dec, 2012
UK doctors can now prescribe 800 IU of vitamin D – Dec 2011 12 Nov, 2012
Chronic Kidney – only 1 in 3 doctors said kids need more than 30 ng of vitamin D – Oct 2012 23 Oct, 2012
New Zealand doctors are starting to prescribe more sunshine – Aug 2012 12 Sep, 2012
Vitamin D in the UK as reported by one doctor – Aug 2010 04 Sep, 2012
10X increase in vitamin D tests in Australia – time for the doctors to learn about vitamin D – April 2011 16 Aug, 2012
Survey of patient and doctor vitamin D knowledge - Nov 2010 09 Jul, 2012
Off topic: 'War on Health' video by Garry Null focusing on the FDA – July 2012 07 Jul, 2012
FDA warns against over 400 IU vitamin D for infants, especially with droppers - June 2010 25 Jun, 2012
Doctor survey: 64 pct feel 10 minutes of sun is enough, 33 pct say use sunscreen winter – May 2012 08 Apr, 2012
Doctor Plotnikoff wants to put vitamin D to work in the workplace – Feb 2012 12 Feb, 2012
A Vitamin D lable that FDA would not approve 25 Nov, 2011
Survey Shows Dogma Not Data Can Dictate Doctors' Decisions - June 2010 04 Aug, 2011
A fish a day keeps the doctor away – Japan 2002 04 May, 2011
70 percent of Americans continue to take doctor’s advice – Dec 2010 03 Dec, 2010
Low BMD among teaching doctors in India - July 2010 09 Jul, 2010
The Doctor Will Persuade You Now – May 2010 11 May, 2010

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