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My first Research Corner for Tradeoffs discusses new work by A Jay Holmgren and others in @JAMA. They ask: what happens when a major U.S. health system starts billing patients for portal messages with their clinicians? Learn more here: tradeoffs.org/2023/03/07/pat…

Excited to share a new paper today with Brian McGarry and Ashvin Gandhi published today in NEJM TL;DR Nursing homes with higher use of COVID-19 tests for staff had 30% fewer resident cases and 26% fewer deaths than low testing facilities. That's a LOT. /1 nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

Rates of antibiotics received during #COVID-19 outpatient visits (mostly amoxicillin & azithromycin) varied by age, site, and region in this cross-sectional study. Judith M. Martin, MD @ateevm @krayhsr ja.ma/3M1QRFT

New in JAMA Network Open: In nat'l Medicare survey, many older adults were personally offered phone visits, or chose phone visits, even when phone & video visits were available. 🧵on results, implications for Medicare/other payers' reimbursement policies jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

Congrats to all of the amazing Harvard health policy PhD grads!!!! 🎉🎉🎉

Telemedicine was a crucial stop-gap during the pandemic, but are its best days behind us? Or is there more potential to tap? Excited to share a new article w/ Ateev Mehrotra & @bbrownretail examining the tech, processes, and institutions that can unlock the next chapter of virtual care

Recently joined Joseph Kvedar, MD on @americantelemed’s podcast and discussed key challenges for the future expansion of #telehealth. americantelemed.org/resources/an-u…

Everyone knows NP and PA’s are playing a bigger role in the medical system. But until this study, I didn’t realize how large a fraction of care they provide!

The Boston suburbs’ cynical ploy to keep poor families out: Use seniors as a shield bostonglobe.com/2023/10/01/opi… via The Boston Globe

New 📰Annals of Int Med TLDR: We find the average older adult in traditional Medicare spends 3 weeks per year getting health care, mostly (17 days) ambulatory care like office visits, tests, and treatments. 11% of these adults spent 50+ days per year (!). acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M2…

We all know that fentanyl is making the overdose crisis much worse. But did you know that it's also making buprenorphine — the most popular opioid addiction treatment — harder to use? I dug into it for Tradeoffs's first new episode of 2024. tradeoffs.org/2024/01/25/fen…

Amidst growing enthusiasm for AI in healthcare, there are open questions on how we should pay for AI services. In a new piece at Health Affairs we weigh in. healthaffairs.org/content/forefr…

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