Primary care is considered the bedrock of every good healthcare system. In the US our primary care workforce is falling apart. Because it only really invests in what's lucrative. KFF Health News Julie Appleby Michelle Andrews. USA TODAY kffhealthnews.org/news/article/p…

Medicare ACOs are enabling physicians like Aledade member physician Christine Meyer to expand practice services, add hours, and hire more staff while delivering high-quality care to patients. Read more about the value of Medicare ACOs in this AARP article: ow.ly/1iNi50P8Q5e

Updated working paper: we have more to say about physicians and their earnings! NBER: nber.org/system/files/w… BFI (ungated): bfi.uchicago.edu/wp-content/upl… Brief: bfi.uchicago.edu/insight/resear…

1/ The 2022 results for the Medicare Shared Savings Program are out! (Aledade were #2, #3, #4, $9, #10 for savings rate!) cms.gov/newsroom/press…

In my latest Forbes Health blog, I share why every healthcare organization should employ (or partner with) health services researchers. Cc: Lisa Simpson Amol Navathe Chris Worsham Anupam Jena forbes.com/sites/sachinja…

I have a new paper w/Ivan Badinski, Amy Finkelstein, & Matt Gentzkow! We use a "movers" design to study the role of physician practice intensity for well-documented geographic variation in healthcare spending Punchline? Doctor sorting matters a lot! dropbox.com/scl/fi/s3tcipj…

1) Our new study, out last week The BMJ, tackles racial disparities in low-value care - services that offer patients little to no benefit yet can cause both direct and cascading harms and divert resources from needed care. (1)🧵👇

1/ Final rule for Physician Fee Schedule is out. let's see how the Medicare Shared Savings Program provisions played out compared to the proposed rule. (tl;dr mostly as proposed- incremental improvements to the nation's most mature, and most successful value based program)

Question for R users and #econtwitter -- Is there an R equivalent to Stata's teffects especially for IPWRA?

A hospital mega-merger failed to produce benefits even as practices inside the organizations changed. Just Accepted by Martin Gaynor, Adam Sacarny Adam Sacarny, Raffaella Sadun Raffaella Sadun, Chad Syverson Chad Syverson, and Shruthi Venkatesh @svenkatesh382. zurl.co/SKTv

Who owns your doctor’s office? In our op-ed for The Hill, Christopher Whaley and I discuss what’s driving doctors to sell independent practices to corporate investors like private equity. We offer paths forward.

CMS is reviewing quality measures in its important Universal Measures initiative. In this article, we identify MA Star measures that should be retired to make quality measurement more consistent and meaningful across programs. healthaffairs.org/content/forefr…

1/ The Change Healthcare cyber attacks have created perilous liquidity challenges for a substantial portion of US medical practices This is not fine We Aledade are going to do whatever we can to help our affected partner practices- announcing $100M in advance payments today

1/ If you wanted to craft a CMS Innovation Center model with the best chance of improving care and reducing cost, this would be it. CMS nails it with the ACO PC Flex Mode a 🧵

Ever wonder why your insurer charges a copay for statins (and other high-value meds)? Don’t they want to prevent heart attacks, strokes, etc? Copays never made sense to me. In this new paper in QJE, we show copays kill. 🧵 tinyurl.com/nhk4v93f

It's well known that lower income people tend to suffer much worse health. Is poverty at the heart of this disparity, and, if so, could a large cash transfer help close this gap? We examine an RCT that provided 1000 low income participants $1000/month for 3 years. We find…

In their new Forefront article, Gui Woolston and Amy Finkelstein of Aledade and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) call on Medicaid programs across the country to take advantage of opportunities to pursue test-and-learn approaches through randomized evaluations. bit.ly/3XXEMr6

10 years ago, Aledade was founded w a vision to do good for patients, for practices and for society (We believed that mission would also make us a great place to work for purpose-driven ppl) I'm excited to share our 1st Public Benefit Report! aledade.com/wp-content/upl…

Excited to announce the Aledade Policy Institute. Long way from 2015 when the policy team was half of my time while I also ran an ACO while doing my best impression of a data analyst, compliance officer, contract negotiator, and network developer. aledade.com/newsroom/aleda…