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Steward Health Care's CEO is under fire for refusing to testify about the company's bankruptcy. Listen as Harvard Medical School's Zirui Song joins in conversation with NPR's Priyanka Dayal McCluskey, on the impact of private equity on healthcare. #healthcare #PE npr.org/2024/09/19/nx-…

Nursing homes underreport antipsychotics & overreport qualifying diagnoses like schizophrenia. As I told Charles Schmidt Undark Magazine, "this suggests that the [antipsychotic] measure that’s being reported on Nursing Home Care Compare is inaccurate.” undark.org/2024/09/25/nur…

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Expanding Medicare to cover the cost of long-term care at home would be a HUGE development. Great quote: “There isn’t a lot in the world of health policy that does this well with such a broad swath of the electorate.” Jonathan Cohn huffpost.com/entry/kamala-h…

There is no question that we should reprice mispriced codes in the fee schedule, but FFS is ultimately limited in advancing the goals of physician payment reform More population-based payments (for primary care and total cost of care) can help finance care that is hard to price

Research update: we have a new version of our pharma M&A paper! AND, we posted the data we collected on m&a deals. Links below, main takeaways in thread. Paper summary: lucamaini.com/working-papers… Full draft: lucamaini.com/s/feng_hwang_l… Data: lucamaini.com/data

Last week’s DENS Seminar featured speaker Maya Mathur, presenting new possibilities beyond traditional funnel plots! The session focused on boosting research integrity and reliability, key for healthcare policy advancement. #PValue #MetaAnalysis Harvard Medical School Harvard Biostatistics

🎉Congratulations to STAT Wunderkind, Michael Ann Kyle! Dedicated to transforming the healthcare system from bedside care to policy research, Michael Anne Kyle is focused on alleviating patients' administrative burdens. Read more: statnews.com/meet-the-2024-… STAT Harvard Medical School

Over 60 percent of nursing homes in US counties do not offer I-SNPs in long-term care plans. Amanda Chen of Harvard University et al investigate potential causes for low enrollment. Read the full article here: bit.ly/3Yrn52X

Harvard physician-researchers Christopher Worsham and Anupam Jena explain why taxi drivers have a lower risk of Alzheimer's and what that means for the rest of us time.com/7206222/taxi-d…

Very interesting study from the Michigan folks. You could have predicted it was from them based on the topic and cleverness of the finding Justin B. Dimick

Exciting DENS Seminar today! Speaker Tom Barrett shared innovative studies to accurately estimate averages in complex datasets, bridging advanced statistical theory with practical data analysis. #Statistics #DataScience #ANOVA Harvard Medical School Harvard Biostatistics

Congratulations to Professor José Zubizarreta on being honored with the ASA's 2025 HPSS Mid-Career Award! His pioneering work in healthcare policy and causal inference is truly inspiring. Kudos! 🏆 #Statistics #HealthPolicy Harvard Medical School Harvard Biostatistics

Two-part article in Health Affairs Forefront with my thoughts on improving risk adjustment Actually more of a synthesis of great work and insights from the field and a set of recommendations that follows from considering it all together. This is an area where academia/health

Congratulations to Josh Feng, Emma Dean, and Luca Maini on being selected for the 2025 cohort of #NIHCM Research Grantees! Read more in the release: bit.ly/ResGr25 | #NIHCMGrants2025

Pharmaceutical tariffs could raise prices and reduce innovation, says Bill Padula, PhD in an interview for ABC7 Eyewitness News. Long-term, "Americans could pay by not having the availability of new innovative medications." abc7.com/post/tariff-un…

Universal annual depression screening for adolescents in primary care is cost-effective, especially if health systems improve access to telemedicine behavioral health, reduce treatment costs, or enhance treatment effectiveness. ja.ma/4jY1ebg

New editorial in Annals of Int Med by Michael McWilliams finds flaws in the payments of Medicare Advantage Plans-where insurers can profit from coding tactics. A solution is possible, though political will is essential. acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/AN… #HealthPolicy #MedicareAdvantage

Hear about research at risk from Ron Kessler, who studies suicide risk in veterans: youtube.com/watch?v=VGNRHz… #Harvard #Research #HarvardMed

Congratulations to Michael Chernew (Reinhardt Distinguished Career Award) and Fangli Geng (Outstanding Dissertation) on their AcademyHealth awards! Your leadership and research are transforming the future of health services and policy. 🏆👏 #HealthPolicy