Nishu Uppal
@NishantUppal7
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IM resident @BrighamMedRes | Venture Fellow @AmericanCancer | Policy Fellow @OurHealthStudy | Postdoc @bethisraellahey | Alum @HarvardMed, @HarvardHBS, @CWRUBME
Boston, MA
Joined November 2019
Health care is making Americans poorer. In @NEJM, we describe the current burden of medical debt, the history of our health financing system, and solutions to endemic medical debt in the US. 1/10
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RT @joefigs2: The true cost of the reconciliation bill will be measured in lives—over 50,000 per year. It’s a predictable result when you….
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RT @jonfavs: Shocking how bad this bill is:. - 17 million would lose health care. - 30% higher electricity costs . - Millions of manufactur….
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Honored to speak on medical debt with @jingxuan_zhao, Zhiyuan Zheng, Kyle Moon @AcademyHealth #ARM with a great discussion led by Nora Becker. Thankful to @BrighamMedRes, @bethisraellahey and mentor @benjamesMD for allowing me to attend!
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RT @shriieganesh: .@_aarushib, lead CRC of @ourhealthstudy, presenting on the representation of South Asian religion-language-regional iden….
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RT @GomezJorgeMD: Very excited that our lab’s work was recognized as the Best Clinical Oral Presentation at the 14th Annual Harvard Surgery….
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RT @MassGeneralNews: South Asians face a higher risk of heart disease, often going unnoticed. Mass General researchers are studying genetic….
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RT @pnatarajanmd: So fantastic that @NPR featured the unexplained troublingly high rates of heart disease among S Asian individuals, and ou….
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Was an honor to co-present at @BIDMCSurgery Grand Rounds this week on the financial burden faced by cancer patients, led by @benjamesMD and starring @GomezJorgeMD and Ana Bogdanovski
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RT @davidevelasqu: They are your neighbors—your nanny, the worker who harvested the strawberries on your table, the roofer who repaired you….
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RT @suhas_gondi: New in @JAMAPsych on private equity ownership of opioid treatment centers (fka methadone clinics) in US. Led by David Zhu,….
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RT @JasonKatzMD: Kicking off an “arresting” session at #AHA24 - Robert Ariss from @BrighamWomens @TIMIStudyGroup discussing evolutionary tr….
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RT @pnatarajanmd: Among British S Asians (individuals ancestrally from Bangladesh & Pakistan living in East London), a missense variant in….
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RT @GomezJorgeMD: Had an amazing time at #ACSCC2024 presenting our lab’s work on objective measures of the financial impact of a cancer dia….
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See below for @KedarMate and my thoughts in @thehill on the election and bending the health care cost curve for patients!.
NEW in @thehill:. @NishantUppal7 and Dr. Mate write about how Democrats are making healthcare more affordable:. - Limiting surprise billing for patients.- Negotiating drug prices for Medicare patients.- Reducing billions of $ of patient medical debt.
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RT @suhas_gondi: 4 new papers in @NEJM from leading health policy experts on 2024 election . Sherry Glied & Ben Sommers on the coverage exp….
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We found that up to ~15% of cancer survivors experience catastrophic health expenditures (OOP costs > ~40% disposable income). Stark reminder that even seemingly small medical bills can cause financial damage for low-income households.
Impact from @harvardmed and @BIDMChealth: patient financial burden, catastrophic health expenditures, and the ballooning costs of varying #cancer treatments. Authors: @NishantUppal7, @j_broekhuis, @GomezJorgeMD, @HaoWei95, @natalia__chaves, @benjamesMD.
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RT @AhmedxMukhtar: No pay. No work hour limits. Poor teaching. Stolen possessions. These were the conditions that led the first resident….
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RT @suhas_gondi: Glad to talk with @_daniel_payne at @politico about why elections matter for our patients’ health and how physician advoca….
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