A fantastic BIDMC Smith Center Health Policy Section research team dinner. Celebrating a year of impactful work, life wins, Danish culture ('Skål'), and new collaborations and beginnings over non-stop sushi.

Older patients with #Hodgkin #lymphoma have high burden of #HF , high 1 year mortality and low of anthracyclines and cardioprotective meds. Need improved #cardioonc strategies in this population. Check out the latest #JACCCardioOnc issue on anthracyclines
jacc.org/toc/cardio-onc…

At BIDMC Smith Center, we love to celebrate life wins

Congratulations to inimitable BIDMC CVI cardiology fellow and ⭐️ T32 research mentee Lucas Marinacci, MD on passing his driver's license test!

Acute cardiovascular hospitalizations decreased among Medicare beneficiaries in socioeconomically disadvantaged & non-disadvantaged neighborhoods over 2 decades in the US, though disparities persist.
Rishi Wadhera, MD MPP Eric Secemsky MD MSc Robert W. Yeh MD et al in Circ: CQO
ahajournals.org/doi/abs/10.116…

Our JAMA study explores how a new health equity adjustment will impact hospital performance in Medicare's Value-Based Purchasing program

Top-line: Safety-net hospitals will experience a net + ⬆️ of ≈$30 million in payment adjustments
bit.ly/3xbpovX BIDMC Smith Center

🚨New in JAMA Health Forum🚨

We study the impact of Medicare’s TCM program on rates of timely primary care follow up after hospitalization.

👍Follow up rates are rising
👎60% of patients do not receive timely follow up
👎Disparities are widening

jamanetwork.com/journals/jama-…

Michael Chernew At its best FFS care can also deliver better care at lower costs (as is true today in traditional Medicare). Appears that abuse in FFS by physicians is limited to a minority and controlled by strong professional standards vs lack of professionalism to control abuse by insurers.

Exhilarating to have Josh Angrist speak to a packed room as our BIDMC Smith Center Visiting Professor.

Thank you for being a source of inspiration for all of us.

Honored to host Nobel Laureate Professor Josh Angrist as the 2024 BIDMC Smith Center Visiting Professor this morning. Phenomenal talk on instrumental variable methods and their application in cardiovascular research and clinical trials!

Our Circ: CQO study finds ⬇️ cardiovascular hospitalizations in both socioeconomically disadvantaged & non-disadvantaged US communities over the past 2 decades, although disparities persist

30-day mortality rates now similar for MI, HF, & stroke
ahajournals.org/doi/abs/10.116…

Physician payment reform is in the air.

So I wanted to share our paper about the Medicare Shared Savings Program.

We find that the MSSP has had virtually no budget impact for CMS.

ACOs are not the answer to cost containment in Traditional Medicare.

tinyurl.com/32emjerw

So proud of #SuperStar #ORG mentee, Ore Ore Olakunle Emory School of Medicine, rising PGY1 MGH IM Residents
✅️ #Language preference #SDOH ‼️ must be incorporated into #patientcare
✅️We must develop culturally & linguistically appropriate tools ➡️ #equitable cardiovascular care
#HealthEquity

A mesmerizing and masterful Penn Cardiology Grand Rounds this morning w/Lisa Rosenbaum on why narrative matters

She tackled the doctor-patient relationship, value-based care, #MedEd , burnout, & more — no slides needed

📸: reading an excerpt from one of her grandfather’s 📖

Just published #OriginalResearch in #CircCQO from Rishi Wadhera, MD MPP et al: Community Socioeconomic Status, Acute CV Hospitalizations, & Mortality in Medicare, 2003 to 2019

Read more: ahajournals.org/doi/abs/10.116…

#AHAJournals Eric Secemsky MD MSc Robert W. Yeh MD AHA Science Ritu Thamman MD Brahmajee Nallamothu

BIDMC CV Fellowship take on #ACC24 :
Great to see Joseph Kim present his BIDMC Smith Center work on disparities in AVF creation among Medicare beneficiaries with CKD!

BIDMC CV Fellowship take on #ACC24 :
Loved to see Christina Lalani present a case of mid-aortic syndrome presenting as hypertension in adulthood!

#ACC24 : in collaboration with U.S. FDA FDA Medical Devices, our nationwide post-marketing surveillance of IVC Filters in 270K US Medicare patients (2013-2021) showed⬇️insertions but stably low retrieval volume (only ∼15%), despite guideline recommendations. What else did we find? 🧵👇

Check out this outstanding editorial by Dr. Shruti Revankar & Anandita Agarwala Kulkarni, MD FACC on our recent study disaggregating the burden of cardiometabolic risk factors & cardiovascular diseases across Asian groups (Indian, Filipino, Chinese Americans).
ajconline.org/article/S0002-…

Delighted to co-author the editorial: 'Stepping Away from the Monolith: The Disaggregation of Asian Cardiovascular Data' with Dr. Shruti Revankar of BCM IM Residency.
ajconline.org/article/S0002-…

Original manuscript: ajconline.org/article/S0002-…

Jaideep

Superstar physician scientist Alex Fanaroff shows us how to best get our patients moving with his late breaking presentation of the BE ACTIVE RCT!

Now published in Circulation: ahajournals.org/doi/abs/10.116…