I had successful neurosurgery last year. The number of papers my surgeon had published meant exactly ZERO. Papers as a metric for doctors is a bad idea. Very bad.

If you have not seen this 4 minutes clip of Arnab Goswami, you have not seen anything!

Going to say it again… 1998 conversion factor for doctors - $36.68 2024 conversation factor for doctors - $33.29 1999 Insurance premiums - $6k 2024 Insurance premiums - $24k When you pay more for healthcare, it’s not coming from private, independent doctors no matter what

I am getting so fed up with the Medtronic TWOS issues... but at least I discovered a new amazing variation to share with you folks JMC

I'm not sure which will be worse, EARLY TAVR or OPTION. Med science is for asking important questions--not designing trials to be positive My take on EARLY TAVR is up. It's quite sad. medscape.com/viewarticle/ea…

A media blitz has been going on to demonize Doctor salaries. It's obviously funded by the Healthcare-Pharma Complex, to deflect blame onto Doctors for high Healthcare costs. It is the worst kind of gaslighting against doctors, because the exact opposite situation is true.

Interesting first day of #Amulet #AbbottCardio #LAAO with a mixed bag of difficult cases. Thanks to maestro Rajesh Venkataraman for his expert proctoring !

In last one week, United health care has denied pacemaker , SVT ablation , afib ablation like they don’t exists UnitedHealthcare Heart Rhythm Society American College of Cardiology AMA Are these medical association doing anything to protect our patients ?

If the American People Only Knew… Same Surgery, Same Surgeon, Medicare Pays 2x More To Health Systems for No Reason The government claims to care about efficiency. Yet Medicare pays significantly more when a procedure is performed in a health system, owned outpatient

Prof. Jeffrey Sachs gives Piers Morgan a brief, but necessary lesson on the war in Ukraine. This is a must-listen.

Complications happen—to EVERY operator, but, I stand by my contention that flouroless ablation is an unnecessary parlor trick. 1-2 min of X-ray is not a problem. Plus, the same operator doing a zero fluoro case, often does a CRT device w 45+ min of fluoro.

Goodhart’s Law: When you measure something to track success, and then make that measurement a goal, people will find ways to hit the target that might miss the actual point. When you tell people "this number is what matters," they'll focus on improving that number—even if it

Law firm: "Need another clerk. Hire one!" Hedge fund: "Need another analyst. Hire one!" Hospital: "Need another NP. Admin groups to hold quarterly Teams meetings for a year to create a pro-forma before considering a position. And don't replace the 2 NPs that quit in interim."🤦‍♂️

Some prescient words from GWB on this "liberation day." This is how a conservative speaks.

Watch Republican hypocrisy at its ugliest. These politicians spent their careers fighting tariffs. Now Trump snaps his fingers, and they can’t sell out fast enough.

I’m no revenue cycle expert, but I know a little bit about how physicians are paid. They don’t just submit an invoice from Quickbooks. They have to submit a CMS1500, or in certain circumstances, a UB-04 form. The 1500 claim has 33 mandatory fields. It’s purposefully designed

There is absolutely no reason that physicians should not be able to own hospitals. Period.

Non-profit hospitals aren't holding up their end of the bargain. James Frank asks the critical question of the Texas Hospital Association: "What is it that y'all are doing that for-profit hospitals aren't doing, other than not paying a lot of taxes?"

In 1938, Harvard began the world’s longest happiness study. They tracked 724 teenagers for their entire lives. 85 years later, the results are in. Here’s what actually makes people happy (backed by science): 🧵

Everyone talks about physician compensation. Almost no one talks about overhead. We debate how much CMS pays. Why procedural specialties are paid more. How physicians are reimbursed. But that misses the real driver of dysfunction: The single most expensive, least addressed