Proud to have co-written this piece with Amundam Mancho, MD MPH & Jeffrey Edwards, MD MPH on the struggles we face in providing equitable care for all our pediatric patients. Thanks to The Boston Globe Globe Magazine for allowing us to advocate for our patients thru media bostonglobe.com/2023/10/12/mag…

We have new work out today JAMA Health Forum exploring if removal of Medicaid prior auths for buprenorphine changed buprenorphine prescriptions Hypothesis: PAs are a barrier to care and removal will result in more prescriptions Results: There was minimal change after PA removal

Excited to share these two podium talks + co-author some fab presentations w/my @TheBCRP Boston Medical Center colleagues at #PAS2024 — will be my first Pediatric Academic Societies! 🙌🏽🙏🏽 to two incredible research teams tagged below, and to Scott Hadland, MD + Heather Hsu, MD MPH for exceptional mentorship! ❤️

Excited to share our new paper on how to use target trial emulation to study the comparative effectiveness of medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) using observational data Out now and open-access in Addiction Journal onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/I4AZPJ3V…

It was an honor to get to discuss how the federal health programs can improve the care of patients with substance use disorders, particularly alongside my friend Sarah Bagley (she/her) Our patients deserve evidence-based, high-quality care, and the federal health programs can help

🚨Out this week in JAMA Health Forum 🚨 How can we deal with the ever-increasing complexity of medical billing in risk adjustment models? How could integrating AI models help? If you're interested in these questions, we've got a paper for you! jamanetwork.com/journals/jama-… (1/5)

This is such an important conversation we SHOULD be having. Infants are the fastest growing age group in the US foster system today, largely due to parental substance use. The system has moved forward because of inertia, federal law, unclear guidance from fed->state, unclear

Incredibly imp work led by Rohan Khazanchi, MD, MPH, Heather Hsu, MD MPH & more Boston Medical Center. Changing from reflexive mandated reporting to case-based led to drop in filings w/o change in custody disposition. Multidisciplinary hospital-based team decision making can identify protective factors and risks.

Adoption of a trauma-informed clinical practice guideline at Boston Medical Center requiring identification of specific protective concerns in the setting of prenatal substance exposure led to a large reduction in CPS reports. ja.ma/3UMOKtm

1/ In Journal of Substance Use & Addiction Tx (JSAT): Qual study with women of color with SUD in MA highlighting compounding stigmas during pregnancy and postpartum, where participants experience increased scrutiny, mistrust and expectations hindering access to care and resources. jsatjournal.com/article/S2949-…

Those most affected people know what the solutions are — we just need to listen and get to work! Important, solution- finding qualitative study from Journal of Substance Use & Addiction Tx (JSAT) by Davida Schiff, MD and colleagues 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

🚨For our final #HealthEquityRounds of the year (and my last of residency 😭), we will explore racialized immigration policies and family separation in collaboration with the Boston University COE in Immigrant Health and Early Childhood Mental Health and Immigrant & Refugee Health Center at BMC. DM for Zoom link!

Thrilled to hear good news today about an #MAleg bill which would end mandated CPS reporting for prenatal substance exposure. H/t Matt Stout for citing our JAMA Pediatrics study, which shows Boston Medical Center reduced reporting by almost half by implementing similar guidance in 2021 🙏🏽

1/📢📰💡 NEW op-ed in Cognoscenti WBUR with Liz Egan and Heather Hsu, MD MPH from Boston Medical Center We share how #MApoli can move our state from mandated reporting to mandated supporting for pregnant people with substance use disorders by passing #H4758 this session. wbur.org/cognoscenti/20…

"Destigmatizing prenatal and postpartum substance use treatment is long overdue." #maternalhealth Our policies punish pregnant people for getting treatment for addiction. It doesn't have to be this way buff.ly/3SkruRU by Rohan Khazanchi, MD, MPH Heather Hsu, MD MPH from Boston Medical Center

An honor to have our work featured in the JAMA Pediatrics highlight reel on Health & the 2024 US Election by Alison Galbraith & Aaron E. Carroll. Now, #MAleg just needs to finalize this bill in 2025! Our paper: jamanetwork.com/journals/jamap… The editorial: jamanetwork.com/journals/jamap…

Dr. Heather E. Hsu (Heather Hsu, MD MPH) explains how an institutional conference series for addressing the adverse effects of bias and medical racism has influenced day-to-day discussions in her department Boston Medical Center and has affected patient care. Full interview: nej.md/3AKpuwJ

So proud of our #HealthEquityRounds team for their hard work on this excellent presentation and all the next steps to follow! We’ll be proposing clinical guidelines that can help pediatricians & our colleagues advocate for justice-involved youth in healthcare spaces ❤️