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Ways to Save Money in Health Care jamanetwork.com/journals/jama-… Typically terrific essay by David Cutler

📢 PSA! The ✨️Center for Advancing Health Policy through Research (CAHPR) ✨️ (cay-pur) at Brown University is finally here! Follow along CAHPR @ Brown University School of Public Health and, if you haven't already, check out our website #DreamTeam cahpr.sph.brown.edu

New publication! In JAMA Network Open with co-authors Jim Eubanks MD and @RTylerBraun we assess the geographic trends of PE acquisitions of pain management practices jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

📢New pub! The corporate transformation of primary care is underway with growing consolidation by hospitals and PE firms. We quantify trends in PCP employment over a decade & link to 226+ million negotiated prices (!) in Transparency in Coverage data jamanetwork.com/journals/jama-…

This is a resource thread about the Datasaurus Dozen data and how to get it. The Datasaurus Dozen is a collection of extremely different datasets with near identical summary statistics. It’s a reminder to all of us to ALWAYS plot our data.

The Trump admin appears poised to double down on one of Washington’s most entrenched orthodoxies: value-based payment (VBP) and its ideology of managed care. Andrew Ryan and I argue this is a mistake. It’s time for a new agenda in Medicare. 1/x

In AJR, we found that private equity acquisitions of radiology practices surged from 2013-2023, now employing 12% of U.S. radiologists. In states like Nevada & Arizona, nearly half of radiologists work for PE firms. doi.org/10.2214/AJR.25… Yashaswini Singh, PhD CAHPR @ Brown University School of Public Health

#MedicalEducation LTE out today! In reply to Atul Grover, MD, PhD 'We may benefit from approaching the challenge of teaching health policy to medical trainees as we approach health system reform itself—by understanding the incentives maintaining the status quo' jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

Incredible article! So proud of Alex Philips for shedding light on such an important topic. Medical trainees are catapulted into a world where they lack fundamental knowledge of health policy. We need room for this

📰Health Affairs Forefront piece out today! Sudden ownership changes, faculty turnover, and program closures due to private equity create instability in medical training. Thanks to Yashaswini Singh, PhD CAHPR @ Brown University School of Public Health for her input during the drafting process Brown University School of Public Health The Warren Alpert Medical School

Check out this important piece on the implications of growing private equity in health care on medical trainees led by The Warren Alpert Medical School superstar Alex Philips

Great work by Alex Philips MD’26 and Viknesh Kasthuri MD’25 on the growing influence of private equity in medicine—and what it means for medical trainees.

Important perspective by Alex Philips, MD’26, in JAMA on how incentive structures sideline health policy education in med school. He argues that to reform health systems, students need to understand what sustains the status quo. Check it out: jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

Wrapping up CAHPR @ Brown University School of Public Health after a great year! Thanks to my PIs Christopher Whaley and Yashaswini Singh, PhD and to my mentors David Meyers , Andrew Ryan , Ira Wilson And to the best co-RAs Meehir Dixit Geronimo Bejarano Onwards to my last year of med school before applying for residency!

📰 Another price variation letter out last week in AnnalsofEM ! annemergmed.com/article/S0196-… Christopher Whaley and I once again find notable price variation for ED eval across commercial payers and state. Which is particularly important since E&M in the ED is unpredictable/non-shoppable.

Had a great time presenting research from this past year AcademyHealth #ARM25 !! Pic creds Meehir Dixit CAHPR @ Brown University School of Public Health

Medicare Advantage plans — which cover more than 50% of Medicare beneficiaries — are abusing the payment system to overcharge the government by billions every year. A new tool from Brown University School of Public Health shows how plan coding practices drive excess payments: medicoding.org