Christopher Martin (@spinesurgeonctm) 's Twitter Profile
Christopher Martin

@spinesurgeonctm

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UMN Department of Orthopedic Surgery (@umnorthosurg) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This week is National APP Week, and it’s the perfect time to recognize the incredible contributions of our Advanced Practice Providers (APPs). šŸ¤ From surgeries to patient consultations, research, and beyond, APPs bring immense expertise and compassion to their work every day!

This week is National APP Week, and it’s the perfect time to recognize the incredible contributions of our Advanced Practice Providers (APPs). šŸ¤

From surgeries to patient consultations, research, and beyond, APPs bring immense expertise and compassion to their work every day!
unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Warren Buffett has said: "I could end the deficit in five minutes. You just pass a law that says that any time there’s a deficit of more than three percent of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible for re-election." Do you agree with him?

UMN Department of Orthopedic Surgery (@umnorthosurg) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Nothing like a Minnesota Football win to put a spring in our step! Our docs were all smiles on and off the field after the Gophers took down USC this weekend! šŸ’ŖšŸˆ

Nothing like a <a href="/GopherFootball/">Minnesota Football</a> win to put a spring in our step! Our docs were all smiles on and off the field after the Gophers took down USC this weekend! šŸ’ŖšŸˆ
Dean Phillips (@deanbphillips) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The past years have regularly left me in disbelief, but I never imagined Americans marching in favor of terrorists whose goal is to wipe the Jewish homeland & people off the face of the earth.

J Bone & Joint Surg (@jbjs) 's Twitter Profile Photo

High-Dose TXA Is Associated with Less Blood Loss Than Low-Dose TXA without Increased Complications in Patients with Complex Adult Spinal Deformity bit.ly/4dK3lfA

High-Dose TXA Is Associated with Less Blood Loss Than Low-Dose TXA without Increased Complications in Patients with Complex Adult Spinal Deformity

bit.ly/4dK3lfA
Adam Bruggeman, MD (@drbruggeman) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Physician conversion factors: 2000: $36.6173 2003: $36.7856 2006: $37.8975 2009: $36.0666 2012: $34.0376 2015: $35.7547 2018: $35.9996 2021: $34.8931 2024: $32.7442 UHC stock up 8,556% Insurance premiums up 342% Inflation up 86% Physician pay down 10% We should keep cutting

Physician conversion factors:
2000: $36.6173
2003: $36.7856
2006: $37.8975
2009: $36.0666
2012: $34.0376
2015: $35.7547
2018: $35.9996
2021: $34.8931
2024: $32.7442

UHC stock up 8,556%
Insurance premiums up 342%
Inflation up 86%
Physician pay down 10%

We should keep cutting
David Sacks (@davidsacks) 's Twitter Profile Photo

If it wasn’t for SpaceX, the USA would still have two astronauts stranded on the space station left to die. If it wasn’t for Starlink, flood victims would have been left without communication. Democrats want to cancel them anyway, as political retaliation. They are vindictive.

UMN Department of Orthopedic Surgery (@umnorthosurg) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Dr. Jonathan Sembrano and spine fellows Drs. Rob Prior and Luis Bisbal represented the UMN Ortho at the AO Spine North America Annual Fellows Forum in Banff at the end of March! šŸŒ„ #AOSpine

Dr. Jonathan Sembrano and spine fellows Drs. Rob Prior and Luis Bisbal represented the UMN Ortho at the AO Spine North America Annual Fellows Forum in Banff at the end of March! šŸŒ„ #AOSpine
Yevgeny Shuhatovich DO FACS šŸŖ¬šŸ‡ŗšŸ‡ø (@handdochtx) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Dear Elon Musk, I wanted you to be aware of the racket that goes on in medicine. To sum it up, here is a case example. When I fix a distal radius bone fracture - 45 minutes to 1 hr of highly skilled intricate work: 1. Doctor makes 750. 2. Hardware I put in costs 3000 plus

Heath Veuleman (@heathveuleman) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This is obscene. Here’s a fun little factoid: Since the inception of Medicare (1960) - our healthcare spend has increased 17,900% But physician reimbursement - since 1960 - has DECREASED by 26% (inflation adjusted). Read that again. Yes, that’s correct. You read it right.

Elisabeth Potter MD (@epottermd) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I stepped out of a new patient’s consult to have this peer to peer call at the only time offered to me. You may remember an insurance company recently insisting that they’d never interrupt patient care for insurance matters. Reality Check…it happens all the time. The doctor I

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.
Anthony DiGiorgio, DO, MHA (@drdigiorgio) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Physicians are inundated with ā€œdocumentation inquiriesā€ from an external consulting firms. What is happening here? Because of Medicare's Inpatient Prospective Payment System, sicker patients generate higher payments, incentivizing the identification of every comorbidity. Hence

John Asghar MD (@jahangirasgha10) 's Twitter Profile Photo

One of the most frustrating answers I hear: ā€œAI will solve it.ā€ No—it won’t. Not when the input is garbage. In medicine, we keep collecting irrelevant, low-quality data… then wonder why nothing improves. For every ā€œqualityā€ metric added, cost goes up…. Some consultant is

salaryDr (@salarydr) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Medicare’s message to doctors: ā€œDo more, get paid less.ā€ 2025 conversion factor: $32.35 2015 conversion factor: $35.93 A decade of cuts while demands explode. This isn’t reform—it’s sabotage. In 2025, the Medicare conversion factor will be lower than it was in 2015. A decade

Medicare’s message to doctors: ā€œDo more, get paid less.ā€
2025 conversion factor: $32.35
2015 conversion factor: $35.93

A decade of cuts while demands explode.

This isn’t reform—it’s sabotage.

In 2025, the Medicare conversion factor will be lower than it was in 2015. A decade
John Asghar MD (@jahangirasgha10) 's Twitter Profile Photo

60 hours. That’s how much administrative work is generated per U.S. physician, every single week. Roughly 9 hours by the doctor, and 50+ hours by staff — just to keep up with the bureaucracy. That’s 60 hours not directed toward patient care. No other developed country comes

60 hours.
That’s how much administrative work is generated per U.S. physician, every single week.

Roughly 9 hours by the doctor, and 50+ hours by staff — just to keep up with the bureaucracy.

That’s 60 hours not directed toward patient care.

No other developed country comes