Wow, BCBS - FEP, do I really need to mail in a health claim form to get reimbursed for OTC rapid Covid tests?? It’s 2022…c’mon! Sounds like this is intentional to act as a barrier to affordable care.

Gonna be very weird if Supreme Court ends a constitutional right to obtain an abortion next week, saying it should be left to the States to decide, right after it just imposed a constitutional right to concealed carry of firearms, saying it cannot be left to the States to decide

Very excited to share a JAMA Viewpoint written with @Riagpal and Jessie Ge, MD, reflecting on the professional roles of physicians and how housestaff activism is a critical piece of realizing our responsibility as health advocates #medtwitter #meded jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

Most people are still using CAP and HCAP for pneumonias. You should stop. Here’s why:

If I started a health policy book club in the DC area that met in-person once a month, would any of y’all be interested in joining? Please feel free to retweet

1/18 🤔Why does heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) lead to sodium retention? With reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF), decreased cardiac output (CO) leads to neurohormonal activation and sodium avidity. If CO is preserved in HFpEF, what's the inciting event?

This is my mental model Nayan Arora,MD Shouldn’t pee Can’t pee Won’t pee

We KHN have done a whole project about it -- How Private Equity Hijacked Healthcare. Here: khn.org/news/tag/patie…

Fascinating Kaiser Permanente study with sound methods highlights yet another contributor to the high cost of healthcare in the US. We need to balance cost-effectiveness and clinically significant patient outcomes when assessing new drugs. Enrique Seoane jamanetwork.com/journals/jamai…

In 1998, a small residency program in Colorado lost its accreditation. It wasn’t the kind of thing that you’d expect to change the course of academic medicine. And yet, it *almost* did. Earlier, I explained how the Match started. Now, I’ll tell you how it nearly collapsed. 🧵

When I was an intern, I didn't even know what GDMT stood for. It was challenging for me to keep track of all of the heart failure medications. There weren't any great resources to help me remember the key medications. So I made one. Let's go through them. - Thread - 1/20

A piece from me, my first (I hope) in the NYtimes. nytimes.com/2023/07/20/opi…

Phenobarbital is effective for alcohol withdrawal. But is it safe? YES! At VA Boston, we found that SAEs happened in 1 of 244 hospitalizations (0.4%). There were ZERO: - intubations - ICU transfers for over-sedation - deaths sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Kudos to Matt Ronan!

My latest for NPR: The weight-loss industry tells us that if we just lose a few pounds, we'll be happy. But this industry has created a problem only more dieting – or more drugs – can fix. The body is something to be tamed for the entirety of our lives. npr.org/sections/healt…

Full text of my article Forbes: Why Are Cash Prices Lower Than Health Insurance Negotiated Prices? Growing evidence demonstrates a counterintuitive phenomenon in healthcare: the cash price is often cheaper than insurance prices for the same service or product. Cash prices

Packed session for our session, “GLP-what? Transitioning Diabetes Management from the Clinic to the Hospital and Back Again” at #sgim24 Carly Sokach, MD Michael Simonson Jill Allenbaugh

Packed house for #sgim24 Workshop, “Happy Hour: Case-Based Updates in Inpatient Management of Alcohol Withdrawal Syndrome” Matt Ronan Craig Gunderson