🌟🌟Job Alert🌟🌟 Our team at the Health Policy & Equity Section BIDMC Smith Center is looking for a Program Administrator to support high-impact research focused on health care policy, delivery, & equity. Apply 👇🏾 to join our dynamic & fun-loving team! bilh.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job/B…

Congratulations Rishi Wadhera, MD MPP for your promotion to Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School!!! You've made incredible contributions to the fields of health policy evaluation and health equity research, to the mentorship of so many trainees, and to BIDMC Smith Center.

The Inflation Reduction Act and Access to Heart Failure Therapies - Prices, Progress, and Promise New informative Journal of Cardiac Failure Ignite 🔥by leaders Andrew Oseran, MD MBA & Rishi Wadhera, MD MPP onlinejcf.com/article/S1071-…

Many individuals w/ heart failure face financial barriers accessing GDMT The Inflation Reduction Act aims to address ⬆️ out-of-pocket drug costs. Read this excellent Journal of Cardiac Failure piece by Andrew Oseran, MD MBA on what this could mean for patients w/ heart failure onlinejcf.com/article/S1071-…

The Health Policy & Equity Section BIDMC Smith Center will be at #AHA24 AHA Science! Check out this incredible group of trainees' research focused on high impact policy areas, including private equity in healthcare, Medicaid work requirements, & the rural cardiovascular health crisis

AHA Science #AHA24 is just around the corner! Our research team will be presenting impactful and timely work focused on the intersection of health care policy, access & quality, and cardiovascular health. Swing by and check out this incredible group of mentees work! BIDMC Smith Center

Huge thanks to ⁦⁦Andrew Oseran, MD MBA⁩ and ⁦⁦Rishi Wadhera, MD MPP⁩ for stellar mentorship to present our findings at #AHA2024 on how the utilization and spending on lipid lowering therapies have evolved for #Medicaid beneficiaries ahajournals.org/doi/abs/10.116…

In Annals of Int Med, we find that patients in Medicare Advantage have a similar burden of many chronic medical conditions as those in Traditional Medicare Yet these private insurance operated Advantage plans cost $83 billion more. Could over coding of diagnoses be causing this?

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,

Novel linkage of NHANES+Medicare data shows similar chronic condition burden btwn adults in Medicare Advantage & FFS. Suggests excess payments to MA may be driven by coding practices rather than differences in health. Andrew Oseran, MD MBA Rahul Aggarwal et al acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/AN…

ICYMI: A nationally representative cross-sectional study found that prevalence of obesity, hypertension, hyperlipidemia and chronic kidney disease was not higher among #MedicareAdvantage compared to fee-for-service beneficiaries; however, diabetes was more prevalent in MA

#ACC25 is just around the corner! Our Health Policy team will be presenting timely research on the impact of private equity acquisitions, telehealth parity policies, & the Inflation Reduction Act on cardiovascular health Come by to check out this amazing group of trainees work!

#ACC25 is a wrap! Incredibly proud of all the trainees in the Health Policy Research Section, who presented impactful work focused on the intersection of cardiovascular care & health policy BIDMC Smith Center Check out our website: bit.ly/3FQEqvA

A brilliant AcademyHealth #ARM25 late-breaking presentation by Stephen Mein on how coverage and employment changed after Georgia paired work requirements with efforts to expand Medicaid.