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Austin Frakt

@afrakt

Health Economist with the Veterans Health Administration, Boston University, and Harvard University • Editor-in-Chief @HSR_HRET • Trumpet player 🎺

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Deadline extended to Monday September 26: You can still submit abstracts for our special issue on "Aligning Systems for Health" from Georgia Health Policy Center supported by RWJF. Send to [email protected]. Thank you to all who submitted abstracts so far!

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Medicare coverage increases health care use. But are these changes due to use of high-value or low-value care?? In @HSR_HRET paper, Rishi Wadhera, MD MPP, JeahJung, and I examined the effects of Medicare coverage at age 65 on use of high-value and low-value care (bit.ly/3BpOoye)

Medicare coverage increases health care use. But are these changes due to use of high-value or low-value care??

In @HSR_HRET paper, <a href="/rkwadhera/">Rishi Wadhera, MD MPP</a>, <a href="/JeahKJung/">JeahJung</a>, and I examined the effects of Medicare coverage at age 65 on use of high-value and low-value care (bit.ly/3BpOoye)
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I think I can sum up a lot of commentary thusly: She was queen for a long time. A lot happened. Good times. Bad times. Here are some pics. Now he is king and things are uncertain. (Sad or angry pic here.) It could be a rough ride. We'll see!

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Didn't everyone know this would happen? It's kind of par for the course for software vendors, no? (I've seen in many times.)

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What are the lessons of Medicare's decade+ experience w/ ACOs? New in @jhppl advanced pubs, Valerie A. Lewis, PhD Steven Spivack, PhD & Genevra Murray explore whether ACOs have met their promise (ungated) bit.ly/ACOs-in-Medica… CC Duke University Press Harold Pollack UNC HPM UNC Public Health

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Read the plain language summary reviewing research published in @HSR_HRET on the present and future of rural America’s hospitals. From former AcademyHealth public policy fellow @KaleighLigus: academyhealth.org/blog/2022-09/p…

Read the plain language summary reviewing research published in @HSR_HRET on the present and future of rural America’s hospitals.

From former AcademyHealth public policy fellow @KaleighLigus: academyhealth.org/blog/2022-09/p…
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This is important and not about me, despite starting out that way. Read to the end and stop dismissing patients you don't know.

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New PEPReC policy brief on the Stratification Tool for Opioid Risk Mitigation - peprec.research.va.gov/PEPRECRESEARCH…

New PEPReC policy brief on the Stratification Tool for Opioid
Risk Mitigation - peprec.research.va.gov/PEPRECRESEARCH…
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Innovation's benefits (especially short-term) tend to "flow to those already privileged by the system... innovation is only accessible to those who can afford it." The (in)equity dimension of the innovation/access tradeoff deserves more attention.

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I'm going to make up a term for a thing that might exist (and you should tell me if it does and where): "prescription alignment." It would allow a patient a one-time shift *earlier* of prescriptions so they align for renewal on the same day.

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.Walgreens: I "love"* typing in all my info to sign up for vaccinations and then having to fill out, by hand, a form with the same information. Come on! * "love" = do not like at all

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Champagne is synonymous with celebration and beer with Sunday football. But the data are clear that alcohol isn't good for us. Why won't we give it up? My latest on TIE! Incidental Economist theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/alco…

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Now available from HSR: Articles on #ReproductiveWellness for women with #ChronicConditions from a special section supported by WKKF and Jordan Institute UNC-Chapel Hill. Watch the space! New papers will be posted regularly bit.ly/3ze9izV

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I’m following @HSR_HRET on LinkedIn to connect with researchers, contributors and editors focused on #healthcare and #healthpolicy. Follow Health Services Research's LinkedIn account here: ow.ly/umw150PisvO #HSR #HealthServicesResearch