This is Sick-Tok's greatest hits. I am a former special education teacher and current emergency medicine physician and have tremendous compassion for those who are truly dealing with life-limiting conditions like ASD and real EDS (the kind that causes aortic dissections among other very serious kinds of pathology). I simultaneously have compassion for those who are suffering physically and psychically and who want an explanation and a label and for some reason find their way towards wanting to identify as chronically ill / disabled.
It's a tough thing but from what I have seen, pursuing the diagnoses on this list makes life worse for the vast majority of people who choose to do so. There is a rapidly expanding cottage industry of charlatans who will diagnose and treat these things, and others who post about them online and feed the cycle. I'll admit spectrum bias, since I see the ones who come to the ER with concern about these issues and they skew hard in a certain direction but this is overall not a good thing.
This is a trash study and the title implying that this is an AHA statement is misleading. It was a data dredge associational study with minimal controlling for other covariates / risk factors for heart failure. The implication that melatonin has a causal relationship with CHF based on this alone is a pretty big jump.
It's complicated. Physicians can own imaging equipment, for example, but they can't require you to use it for the radiology tests that they order. There are weird carve-outs for in-office ancillary services (e.g. you're an orthopedic surgeon who uses x-rays in your office, which is common and arguably necessary).
There's also rules regarding things like percentage ownership of physician owned facilities and the percentage of referrals to that equipment that come from the physician owners.
Urine drug screens in an in-office "lab" are another big source of revenue for certain specialties that involve referring patients to your own tests, or doing your own pathology on biopsies as a dermatologist or whatever. My understanding is that most of those things, and many like them, are not Stark law violations.
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