Our new paper in NEJM examines the widespread acquisitions of medical practices by UnitedHealth, Humana, Cigna, and other insurers—what’s driving this trend and what are its implications for patients and clinicians? 1/x

via @NYTimes About time to go after the PBM racket. nytimes.com/2024/07/09/hea…

To bring you up to speed today #MedTwitter, hospitals and ASCs get a 3% raise, we get a 3% cut and @uhc committed 8.7B dollars worth of Medicare fraud in 2021 alone. But yes tell us how it’s all the doctors fault. #notaprovider Criminal Division Dana Corriel, MD PPP - Putting Patients First

Proposed Conversion Factor of $32.26. in 2025. It was $36.69 in 1998. So even w/o inflation adjustment, doctors in 1998 made more from Medicare than doctors in 2025. Adjusted for inflation, it should be $71.33 ($32.26 in 1998 would be $17.05) #MedTwitter

From Jennifer Carter, a teacher at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia. What the hell are we doing?

We will keep beating the drum until those in power listen. This is a threat to the health of our country and the health of the economy. Small businesses are being pushed out. Consolidation is increasing costs. The economy will suffer. Time to get this fixed!

Execution after birth is not happening in America. Except in schools.

Facts are important. 🚨 There is no such thing as abortion after birth. I deliver babies and provide abortion care.

I’m hearing so many people cite conflict of interest as the reason physicians shouldn’t own hospitals. This also happens to be the main strategy the American Hospital Association used to lobby Congress to ban POHs in the Affordable Care Act, paving the way for the consolidated

Amazing first few weeks at Vanderbilt! VUMC made a bold investment in the Center for Transplant Science - this new center will bring together the diverse disciplines that make organ transplantation a phenomenally innovative field.

Johns Hopkins (where I did ortho residency, got a masters, and was faculty for 6 1/2 years) sends a letter asking for money. Ah the joys of a bigender name. But de-doctoring me too?

Physician conversion factors: 2000: $36.6173 2003: $36.7856 2006: $37.8975 2009: $36.0666 2012: $34.0376 2015: $35.7547 2018: $35.9996 2021: $34.8931 2024: $32.7442 UHC stock up 8,556% Insurance premiums up 342% Inflation up 86% Physician pay down 10% We should keep cutting

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Canceled our The Washington Post subscription today. Could explain why but other readers did so better. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/…

I’m not going to sit here and say I love Liz Cheney with all my heart— but it’s absolutely bullshit that she’s out there for the most part standing alone because men like Mitt Romney and George Bush don’t have the courage to stand up for the constitution.

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A century ago, Germany’s democracy was hijacked by a bombastic and charismatic tyrant — and in this five-minute video, you’ll learn how he did it. Why did I produce this? Because I believe that history is speaking to us, and all too often, those who refuse to learn from it are

This video is incredible. Everyone should RETWEET it so the whole *world* sees it.

Prepping for a long day. I have my caffeine and my fur coat of dopamine. #democracy #TrustWomen

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