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Real Doc Speaks (@realdocspeaks) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Rebates are allowed because of a modification of a Medicare fraud and abuse law. The Anti-Kickback Statute was modified to allow a safe harbor for PBMs and GPOs to distort the market. Who the hell thought this was a good idea and would end well? Repeal this exemption now!

Dr. Shane (@docshanep) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Now do the MATH for #directprimarycare with LOW overhead, 1 doc, and 1 nurse in a 1,000 sq ft office. 300 to 400 NEW #DPC docs open yearly. now over 3K in US. It can be done just NOT using insurance. DPC Alliance Dutch Rojas dpcnews AAFP

Heath Veuleman (@heathveuleman) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I have not used health insurance for 13 years. I pay in cash. It’s very simple. And I have the best medical team in America. My primary care physician? Concierge. Sounds fancy? It’s cheaper than insurance. I pay $2500 a year. I have my internal medicine physician’s cell. If

Congressman Greg Murphy, M.D. (@repgregmurphy) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Just to remind everyone who really benefited from ObamaCare in 2010. It wasn’t the patients. It wasn’t the doctors. It was the insurance companies. Fraud. Waste. Abuse.

Just to remind everyone who really benefited from ObamaCare in 2010. It wasn’t the patients. It wasn’t the doctors. It was the insurance companies. Fraud. Waste. Abuse.
Marion E Mass, M.D. #patientsfirst #scrubsnotsuits (@mass_marion) 's Twitter Profile Photo

It was the new CMSGov that padded the insurers in the medicare advantage space. Not congress. One GOP congressman, a physician, Congressman Greg Murphy, M.D. has been refreshingly outspoken against this. Thank you, Dr. Murphy. The insurer that inflated sickness codes in order to collect

It was the new  <a href="/CMSGov/">CMSGov</a> that padded the insurers in the medicare advantage space.
Not congress. 
One GOP congressman, a physician, <a href="/RepGregMurphy/">Congressman Greg Murphy, M.D.</a> has been refreshingly outspoken against this.  Thank you, Dr. Murphy. 

The insurer that inflated sickness codes in order to collect
Marion E Mass, M.D. #patientsfirst #scrubsnotsuits (@mass_marion) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Centene is the largest Medicaid managed care organization in the USAšŸ‡ŗšŸ‡ø (they have 22% of the market) with a big share of its revenue coming from Medicaid programs. Let's look at the compensation of officers and board....1/5🧵 gurufocus.com/stock/CNC/fina…

Centene is the largest Medicaid managed care organization in the USAšŸ‡ŗšŸ‡ø (they have 22% of the market) with a big  share of its revenue coming from Medicaid programs. Let's look at the compensation of officers and board....1/5🧵
gurufocus.com/stock/CNC/fina…
YogaJunkie (@debaucheryking) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Marion E Mass, M.D. #patientsfirst #scrubsnotsuits Pretty obscene! They certainly aren’t putting people first - unless you’re talking about themselves! Hey Donald J. Trump being a government program there should be guidelines and limits related to compensation packages for employees managing these programs

A Dad (@rockwellviper) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Marion E Mass, M.D. #patientsfirst #scrubsnotsuits When big money donors and Congress allow the healthcare business to consolidate into a few stakeholders per segment—insurance, GPOs, PBMs, manufacturers, pharmacies—choice becomes an illusion, and market pressure to reduce costs vanishes.

Marion E Mass, M.D. #patientsfirst #scrubsnotsuits (@mass_marion) 's Twitter Profile Photo

United’s Optum unit employs 10% of šŸ‡ŗšŸ‡ø physicians and owns a bank. After their Change HC unit got hacked, physicians were not getting paid. So their bank made loans to physicians and here is the result. I wonder if United will now try to acquire more struggling physician

United’s Optum unit employs 10% of šŸ‡ŗšŸ‡ø physicians and owns a bank.
After their Change HC unit got hacked, physicians were not getting paid.
So their bank made loans to physicians and here is the result. 
I wonder if United will now try to acquire more struggling physician
Practicing Physicians of America (@ppa_usa) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Yes please Let's not leave any agencies that can help here off the table. If those agencies don't have answers, maybe their house needs a more thorough 'cleaning'

Marion E Mass, M.D. #patientsfirst #scrubsnotsuits (@mass_marion) 's Twitter Profile Photo

More people on Medicaid ā€˜justifies’ the growth and expenditure of the companies that manage it. Look šŸ‘€ at Centene, the company with the biggest share of Medicare managed care: Behold the growth of Centene’s revenue (which comes from federal and state taxes and took off right

More people on Medicaid ā€˜justifies’ the growth and expenditure of the companies that manage it.

Look šŸ‘€ at Centene, the company with the biggest share of Medicare managed care:  Behold the growth of Centene’s revenue (which comes from federal and state taxes and took off right
Marion E Mass, M.D. #patientsfirst #scrubsnotsuits (@mass_marion) 's Twitter Profile Photo

While we are looking at Centene, the company that makes most of its money through Medicaid Managed Care, let’s look at a couple of prominent current/former board members who made significant bank šŸ’°from Centene. -Dick Gephardt is still on the board of Centene. He’s a former

While we are looking at Centene, the company that makes most of its money through Medicaid Managed Care, let’s look at a couple of prominent current/former board members who made significant bank šŸ’°from Centene. 
-Dick Gephardt is still on the board of Centene. He’s a former
Sanat Dixit MD FACS (@sdixitmd) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Marion E Mass, M.D. #patientsfirst #scrubsnotsuits Centenes CEO made $21M last year - almost an 11% pay bump. Their covered lives dropped almost 15% during that time. (And I’ve heard you might make too much money to have an opinion on this topic.) 🤪

Marion E Mass, M.D. #patientsfirst #scrubsnotsuits (@mass_marion) 's Twitter Profile Photo

If you are against going after the upcoding done by the Medicare advantage insurers, then you, Bernie Sanders are for allowing the big corporate insurers to continue committing fraudulent activity that takes money from taxpayer pockets

If you are against going after the upcoding done by the Medicare advantage insurers, then you, <a href="/SenSanders/">Bernie Sanders</a> are for allowing the big corporate insurers to continue committing fraudulent activity that takes money from taxpayer pockets
Marion E Mass, M.D. #patientsfirst #scrubsnotsuits (@mass_marion) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Americans will read a LOT of 'fear porn' headlines about Medicare in coming days. What Dr. Mehmet Oz , Senate Republicans members like U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. + Dr. Roger Marshall and Senator Jeff Merkley are doing is making Medicare more solvent by ā€œstop unscrupulous people from stealing from vulnerable

Practicing Physicians of America (@ppa_usa) 's Twitter Profile Photo

"Medicare Advantage insurers over-billing goes back to 2012, whenĀ CMS found $12 billion of this fraud under the Obama administration. The fraud has only ballooned since then. Today, MA insurers billĀ $140 billion in excess... Should Americans expect this additional cash flow to

Leah Houston MD (@leahhoustonmd) 's Twitter Profile Photo

DEAR ECONOMISTS, Please follow Marion E Mass, M.D. #patientsfirst #scrubsnotsuits and learn about the pharmacy benefit managers (PBM’s) and the group purchasing organizations (GPO’s) and how they collude with hospitals and price fix in order to justify their ā€œrebatesā€ (ahem…. legal kickbacks sanctioned through a