#Employer

Jeff Levin-Scherz MDJlevinscherz@med-mastodon.com
2025-06-21

Today in #Employer Coverage: Some longform suggestions for weekend reading. Including a substance abuse approach that works, doctors who write, the problem with early cancer detection, and talking to those skeptical of “experts.” @WSJ; @newyorker; @Katelyn Jetelina

open.substack.com/pub/employer

Jeff Levin-Scherz MDJlevinscherz@med-mastodon.com
2025-06-20

Today in #Employer Coverage: Friday Shorts, including pharmacogrenomic testing to save lives, #vaccinations and medical debt, and marketplace premiums.

open.substack.com/pub/employer. @KFFHealthNews 

Jeff Levin-Scherz MDJlevinscherz@med-mastodon.com
2025-06-18
Jeff Levin-Scherz MDJlevinscherz@med-mastodon.com
2025-06-17

Today in #Employer Coverage: What we can learn from reporting on #denials in Medicare Advantage plans.

open.substack.com/pub/employer

Jeff Levin-Scherz MDJlevinscherz@med-mastodon.com
2025-06-16

Today in #Employer Coverage: Bipartisan legislation proposed that would elminate cost sharing for #maternity care.

open.substack.com/pub/employer

Jeff Levin-Scherz MDJlevinscherz@med-mastodon.com
2025-06-14

Today in #Employer Coverage: Saturday Longforms, including cancer in young people, possible multiple myeloma cure, and Medicare Advantage. Animal photo, too! open.substack.com/pub/employer

Jeff Levin-Scherz MDJlevinscherz@med-mastodon.com
2025-06-13

Today in #Employer Coverage: Friday Shorts on federal vaccine committee, advances in cancer treatment, shingles vaccine, measles, and the cost of removing fluoride from public water supplies.

open.substack.com/pub/employer

Jeff Levin-Scherz MDJlevinscherz@med-mastodon.com
2025-06-12

Today in #Employer Coverage: Americans are less #sedentary than a decade earlier, but there is pleny of room for improvement.

open.substack.com/pub/employer

Jeff Levin-Scherz MDJlevinscherz@med-mastodon.com
2025-06-09

Today in #Employer Coverage: Real world claims data show the growing impact of #GLP-1s in employer-sponsored health insurance.

open.substack.com/pub/employer

On #hiring and #interviewing...

Many ask for it, but no #employer has a legitimate need to know your #salary history. Feel free to decline to provide that; it's none of their business.

Employers say "Oh, but we need to know it. If we offer too little, they might decline our offer!". It's B.S.

If they want to know whether you'll decline an offer, they can make an #offer. You'll either accept it, decline it, or offer to negotiate it. That's how negotiation works, and an offer of employment is absolutely a #negotiation.

The real reason they want this information is because they desperately want to avoid accidentally offering you more than the #minimum amount you will accept. If the position is worth $X to the company, they don't want to offer you $X. They want to offer you $Y, the lowest possible number that keeps you interested in the position. If they don't know what you made in your last job, figuring that number out is much, much harder. Stick to your guns. Your value to the company shouldn't be "approximately what my last position was worth to my previous company".

Push back. If someone from #HR tells you "Oh, but salary history is part of our standard process", politely decline. If they want to #hire you, they'll skip that step. And if they won't modify their #process for your circumstances, maybe you don't want to work for that company, because they won't be willing to vary any of their other standard processes even if your needs require it.

Jeff Levin-Scherz MDJlevinscherz@med-mastodon.com
2025-06-07

Today in #Employer Coverage: Something new. I’m sharing some longer articles (or other media) for the health policy wonk on the weekend. There’s an animal photo, too!

open.substack.com/pub/employer

Jeff Levin-Scherz MDJlevinscherz@med-mastodon.com
2025-06-06

Today in #Employer Coverage: Friday Shorts: student loan defaults, robotic surgery and home cervical cancer screening.

open.substack.com/pub/employer

Jeff Levin-Scherz MDJlevinscherz@med-mastodon.com
2025-06-05

Today in #Employer Coverage: Death rates have declined less in the US than in other developed countries.

open.substack.com/pub/employer

Jeff Levin-Scherz MDJlevinscherz@med-mastodon.com
2025-06-04

Today in #Employer Coverage: What new guidelines for #COVID-19 #vaccinations mean for employers.

open.substack.com/pub/employer @NEJM

Jeff Levin-Scherz MDJlevinscherz@med-mastodon.com
2025-06-03

Today in #Employer Coverage: #340b pharmacy discount program raises costs for employer-sponsored health plans

open.substack.com/pub/employer

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