Access is rightfully a🔥topic these days. How do we support appropriate payer accountability, motivate network investments, & appropriately leverage digital resources? Shout out to Eric, MoDar, @drbachi1 @laxswamy for the 🐦🐦w/🪨 approach👇

I have a new paper w/Ivan Badinski, Amy Finkelstein, & Matt Gentzkow! We use a "movers" design to study the role of physician practice intensity for well-documented geographic variation in healthcare spending Punchline? Doctor sorting matters a lot! https://t.co/QNyeoZdYQg

Need more messages like these and more intentional sharing of messages like these. Cringeworthy, inflammatory and attention grabbing? No. Productively addressing what ails too much of society? Yes. Distrust & disgust are the biggest threats to America.

In their new Forefront article, Eric Kravetz, John Morgan, Mohammad Dar, @laxswamy, + @drbachi1 from @UMass + @VCU discuss how network standards should incorporate telehealth + realize it's potential to ensure more effective + equitable access to care.

“Michael Jordan played 15 years, won 6 championships. The other 9 years were a failure?" Giannis on the Bucks 2022-2023 season

This is unfathomable

Nation’s top cancer hospitals slap hefty markups on drugs, study says https://t.co/v3GWC9qUTq via @statnews

The problem with a former FDA commissioner calling out CMS for its “flawed decision making” while scare mongering about cancer drugs is that it ignores critical context: FDA's “flawed decision making” in initially approving Adu. Situation is unprecedented

👇🏻 great 🧵 on digital health’s real prospects for value (in light of sig $$$ investments) and complementary/necessary components (#CHW)

We're in a transition moment in this pandemic We're coming off highs of the worst surge of infections we've ever had Cases are high but starting to fall in much of the nation This moment raises lots of questions With one big one: What happens next? Thread

NSW is the ideal setting to measure the severity of Omicron, and it is showing a CFR for Omicron that is <1/2 of Delta Five reasons it's ideal: *Prior infection is irrelevant (~2-3% of NSW is prior infected) *Delta cases were steady through Nov, making a stable baseline CHR 1/15

A lot of “value-based care” in practice is really just utilization management, coding, & care management. Nothing revolutionary there. What it must be is a more complete transformation of care that focuses on keeping people healthy—not managing cost when they get sick.

Couldn’t say it any better. 👇🏻

30 behavioral scientists designed a 54 condition “megastudy” testing different 4-week digital programs to increase the gym visits of 61,293 @24hourfitness members 574 forecasters failed to predict what worked TODAY our results are out in @Nature https://t.co/9UHuCs5LXz

1/ For the >80,000 people in the U.S who will test positive for #Covid19 today, what can we offer to support access to care but help them safely remain at home? Our team is excited to finally share important, new findings out today in @AnnalsofIM 👉 https://t.co/VOtpucwWGD

In June, when FDA approved Aduhelm on scant evidence of benefit, despite its risk, at a price of $56k/year, we all knew everyone's insurance costs would go up in response. Yesterday, we learned how much: >$250/yr for every Medicare beneficiary

Below is the story of my #cardiacarrest and the heroic actions of those who saved me. Only 10% of the 350,000 Americans w cardiac arrests outside of hospitals survive- I teamed up with #aha21 to raise awareness about #cpr and #aed - we need to improve! 1/2

Made all the more unconscionable by how much more effectively other nations have removed barriers to testing, despite our resources & head start (not dissimilar from vaccine uptake...another story):

If this isn’t a symptom of our failed health system I don’t know what is.

1/New today in @JAMAPediatrics: We show that neighborhood gun violence exposure can have immediate negative effects on children's mental health. Children living 4-6 blocks from a shooting had ⬆️ odds of mental health-related ED use in the following 2 mos.