“Hundreds and hundreds of people called him, and he helped them navigate their bills.” He never charged anyone and used any money he received from his newsletter to hire patient advocates for people who needed additional help. RIP Marshall Allen propublica.org/article/marsha…

AP style is barbecue, not barbeque, Bar-B-Q or BBQ. We remain neutral on the best barbecue style, so we'll let the pitmasters fight it out on that one.

Phrase of the day: "...the great Cathedral of Our Lady of Correlation.." found in F. Perry Wilson, MD MSCE commentary on vitamin D supplements on Medscape medscape.com/viewarticle/10…

Friends don't let friends report on relative risk data for the general public without context...... (if you don't get this admittedly wonky and weak joke, you should check out this @Dartmouth medical evidence boot camp)

A pretty basic concept that took a year and a half for the courts to get right: "a plaintiff ’s desire to make a drug less available for others does not establish standing to sue" supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf…

Seeking to interview nerdy and compassionate #primarycare doctors for a story on PFS and older patients. DM or comment here if you are up for this. Many thanks.

Important read from Danielle Ofri on costs of health care. It shows another reason why people need to take a close look at their medical bills.

I got a pitch about a company seeking to help medical practices use #AI to handle responses to #priorauth #priorauthorizarequests. I'm guessing that insurers could also use AI in designing PA requests, so that pitch made me think of..... images.app.goo.gl/LmT1Xo36frngcc…

Inspired by Claire Ernst post today, I'm resending a 2023 tweet about one of the more exciting annual events on the #DChealthbeat calendar-- the day on which CMS releases the draft Medicare physician fee schedule. Waiting now draft '25 rule. It's been at OMB since 4/18.

PFS left OMB. Are we thinking today or a fun day-before-holiday situation?

Guessing I'm not the only one checking this website today

For Gen-X folks who follow health policy and who have been checking the Federal Register's website a lot lately...

Betting that I'm not the only person looking at the 2025 draft Medicare physician payment rule while walking in Rehoboth :)

Glad to see this #churnalism series. I was wondering today what annoys me more.. articles about studies done in mice that doesn't have the word "mice"in the headline.. or stories about US presidential budgets written as if they were anything more than the start of a negotiation

If you could give consumers one effective tip about managing their medical expenses, what would it be? And no, leaving the US does not count as a tip.

Honestly never thought this video would get another life 8 years later but… youtu.be/9PiG3vCnkfo

Many thanks to Kerry Dooley Young Medscape for covering our study JAMA: US Nonprofit Hospitals Received $37 Billion in Tax Breaks in 2021 Not paying federal income tax, for example, accounted for $11.5 billion in nonprofit hospital tax benefits. Foregone property tax totaling $7.8

PEPFAR is the epitome of soft power. It is a Republican initiative, it is pro-life, pro-America and the most popular U.S. program in Africa. There’s even a waiver acknowledging this, yet I’m told that drugs are still being withheld at clinics in Africa. This must be reversed

I urge Secretary Marco Rubio to distribute the $340 million in American-grown food currently stalled in U.S. ports to reach those in need. Time is running out before this life-saving aid perishes.

"The political impasse over certain federal medical insurance subsidies in the U.S. has brought unprecedented challenges for health plans, government officials and millions of consumers," writes @kdooleyyoung. Here's what you need to know: journalistsresource.org/home/the-battl…