
Rajiv Sivendran
@rajiv_sivendran
Physician and Entrepreneur | Co-Founder and CEO at Apprentice Health | BIDMC HMed | BWH MedRes | HBS | HHMI | DukeMed | Penn | tweets only represent own views
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http://www.apprenticehealth.com 07-06-2011 22:22:48
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GLP1s are a MUCH higher value to society than Medicare Advantage. We could shift the 80B in annual overpayments to MA and FULLY cover GLP1s, DOUBLE payments to PCPs, and DECREASE costs. Metabolic diseases would plummet and we would solve primary care access. Jose Figueroa, MD, MPH






Will Robbins Joe Lonsdale I totally hear you. But the issue is that it isn't your capital at risk. The reason we have a different rate for capital vs labor is to incentivize people to put up their own capital. To invest in America. For whatever reason, we have decided to tax people's labor at a different,



New study out in Annals of Int Med with Rahul Aggarwal Rishi Wadhera, MD MPP Jose Figueroa, MD, MPH Karen Joynt Maddox Bruce Landon 1/ Medicare Advantage (MA) plans receive fixed payments from the federal government which are risk-adjusted based on beneficiaries underlying medical complexity.


Medicare Advantage plans have been criticized for risk coding practices, which result in billions of $ in excess payments by the government Our Annals of Int Med study finds that the burden of chronic medical conditions is largely similar among adults in MA vs traditional Medicare,




Answers to a few questions from Nina Teicholz, PhD about incidences of censorship I recently experienced at NIH: 1. My request was denied by HHS to present an invited keynote talk on my ultra-processed food (UPF) research at the Bloomberg Philanthropies annual Food Policy Program




Many Vets enrolling in Medicare Advantage get zero care paid by plans. MA insurers argue that vets get extra benefits (vision + dental). But in new JAMA study, we find that this claim is NOT actually the truth. Adam Beckman MD Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

