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After eight rewarding years The Wall Street Journal, I’m headed to Tradeoffs, a nonprofit newsroom covering health policy. I'm more informed and curious about policies after an episode of Tradeoffs and I’m excited to join their stellar newsroom. To follow Tradeoffs: tradeoffs.org/subscribe

How did a medical device with 🚨known safety concerns 🚨gain FDA approval and get implanted in thousands of patients? In Annals of Int Med, we use newly unsealed court documents to correct the public record for the Celect IVC filter Harlan Krumholz Joseph Ross Behnood Bikdeli Aakriti Gupta, MD MSc (1/15)

New in JAMA Psychiatry on private equity ownership of opioid treatment centers (fka methadone clinics) in US Led by David Zhu, we report on prevalence, geographic distribution, market concentration, and potentially strategic targeting of clinics by PE firms for acquisition. 1/x

AcademyHealth CEO Aaron E. Carroll joins Dan Gorenstein on Tradeoffs this week to unpack the real drivers of skyrocketing health care costs. They explore how we can confront the systemic challenges that affect every facet of American health care. bit.ly/3ZN8uj9

"ACO PC Flex does not simply bring spending up to the average; it also offers 2 notable 'enhancements' to the prospective payments that will increase primary care spending well above existing levels for participating organizations." The MSSP ACO is the most successful Medicare

The rapid growth of private equity in health care has attracted widespread attention & concern Our new JAMA study finds that when private equity takes over a hospital, patients' care experience significantly worsens. jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

New report by HHS.gov gives an overview of concerns our agencies have heard about consolidation and the growing role of private equity in healthcare markets. FTC's work to take on unlawful mergers & illegal roll-up schemes in healthcare is critical. hhs.gov/about/news/202…

🧵1/ Last year, a thoughtful reply to our JAMA article sent me down a rabbit hole on CVD prevention. Should statins be prescribed less or more often? Available OTC? Added to the water supply?? Let’s talk trials, thresholds, and tradeoffs!

Viewpoint from Soleil Shah, MD MSc, Suhas Gondi, and Amol Navathe: The ACO PC Flex model, introduced by CMSGov, aims to significantly increase funding for primary care through prospective payments to improve access and quality. ja.ma/3CNaUpn

The Trump admin appears poised to double down on one of Washington’s most entrenched orthodoxies: value-based payment (VBP) and its ideology of managed care. Andrew Ryan and I argue this is a mistake. It’s time for a new agenda in Medicare. 1/x

1/ I love reading the annual March MedPAC report to Congress on Medicare Payment Policy such good, clear data and policy thinking. kudos to MedPAC staff and chair Michael Chernew I'll post some thoughts/highlights as I read through this morning

At one of the nation's most prestigious academic medical centers- primary care physicians at Mass General Brigham have said they are overworked, underpaid, and demoralized by the “corporatization of medicine" Would setting up their own practices be even better than unionizing?