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This month I made $4,052 from "side hustles" between social media engagements and pre-residency advising... nearly double what I make biweekly as a chief endocrinology fellow. Food for thought: what does it say about trainee physician salaries when side gigs can pay more?

Do you remember the good old days when these mortality numbers were decreasing? Wonderful work led by Seth Martin et al with the American Heart Association that should guide efforts for more focus on #CVPrev #Cardiotwitter 📎 shorturl.at/QsYI3

And yet health insurance companies raised premiums again this year for no reason- they aren’t losing money. Just more corporate greed.

Epidemic intelligence service officers are the cream of the cream. They're top doctors, veterinarians, and other health professionals. They sign up for a two-year training program to serve the country. Not only is terminating them bad for the country, it's also a disgraceful

A physician I know performed a complex surgery at a hospital. Health System billed: $78,000 Health System Paid: $40,000 Physician Reimbursement: $1,100 Health Systems take the lion’s share. Physicians take the hit. No physician wants to be employed. #healthcare

Fun anecdote of the day: I got two bills today. First one from an ophthalmology sub specialist evaluation which included retina pics and special OCT scan: $152, other was plow and salt my driveway: $600. What a world we live in.

Yet another process employed by insurers to improve profits. Implied but not fully discussed here is the ultimate question of why doctors have to collect the deductibles and copays. It’s yet another tactic to disrupt the patient physician relationship and to make sure that the

There are many different kinds of doctors. I actually agree with you here the profession has failed. But part of that is because we are being paid half of what we used to be paid and we lost control of the house of Medicine. We have no control over the food industry, and

"In 1992, the Medicare conversion factor was $31.00. Today? $32.36. That’s a $1.36 total increase in 33 YEARS. If it had just kept up with inflation, it would be over $64.00 today. Instead, it’s more than 50% below where it should be."

Physicians aren’t leaving Medicare. Medicare is leaving physicians. Medicare’s pay cuts aren’t about saving taxpayer money they’re about shifting power to corporate health systems. Health systems are paid 2–3x more than independent physicians for the same care. Medicare

Those of us who care for patients with heart attacks have long noticed an association between cannabis use and MI in young patients. This report conforms this observation. acc.org/About-ACC/Pres…

This is correct, just training more doctors won't help with the scarcity of physician labor. So why aren't we discussing ways to keep the active workforce in practice? With increasing administrative burden and decreasing reimbursement, it's no wonder more and more doctors are

Wishing I could be at #ACC25! Someone has to take stemi call …🫀📞#interventionalcards #IC #WIC #cardiology

Thousands of the best experts at FDA, NIH, and all across HHS are being terminated right now. These are the people who make sure the medications you and your children take are safe. These are the people who perform and oversee research on cancer, infant health, and so so so

Where does it end? Why do we let this continue? Let’s stop complaining and start doing. Call your member of congress and tell them how important a long term fix is for physicians, PAs, NPs, physical therapists, and social workers who all get cut every year

Did you know that the largest employer of physicians in the United States is United Health Group? Did you know that 75% of physicians are now employed by larger entities, as opposed to being in independent, private practice? I want you to know how important it is to protect the

Target is paying its employees more than we pay our residents. Assume a resident is making $65,000/yr working 80 hrs/week with 3 weeks PTO. That means a resident is only making $16.58 for each hour worked. ($65k/3,920 hours) Target will pay you $17.25/hr and you don’t need 8

To all CTCA advocates!! If the majority of hospitals do not start using cardiology revenue codes (048x), the CCTA codes will lose APC 5572 placement -- and reimbursement could return to $175 (or even lower) from the current $357.   scct.org/page/HOPPScy25…

It is actually insane. Medicine has also become increasingly complex as patients are chronically ill, on multiple medications, and there are many more medications available on the market today. We need to be compensated appropriately or physicians will continue to leave medicine.

America spends $1.4 trillion on billing systems, paperwork, and non-clinical overhead which is more than it does on paying every doctor and nurse — combined. Physicians deliver care. Bureaucracy consumes the money. And every time we “cut costs” by trimming salaries, adding