Our new study in JAMA Network Open finds that randomized overprescribing warning letters safely reduced antipsychotic prescribing to patients with dementia. The paper: jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…
Authors: Michelle Harnisch Michael L. Barnett Stephen Coussens Kali Thomas Olfson Kiros Berhane + me

How many people go to church weekly?

Surveys say it's about 1 in 5 Americans.

Cell phone tracker data say it's actually closer to 1 in 20 Americans.

Fascinating new working paper!

nber.org/papers/w32334

horrible!!!! Khoa come back!

🚨New NBER with Andrew Olenski on major hidden profits in the healthcare sector! Bear with me as I explain how nursing homes are able to hide almost 2/3 of their profits from regulators and the public! I promise it's worth it!

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Paper: nber.org/papers/w32258

on the senate radar! the 'little guys' quote at the end is a little cringe. who's the helpful researcher working with Cassidy?

It’s that great time of year when we find out about the next generation of MDs joining us at Brigham and Women's Hospital!

Welcome to the incredible new Brigham and Women's Medicine Residents Intern Class of 2024!

Amazing to see that 21% from URIM backgrounds! Brigham and Women’s D & I

Thank you to everyone who contributed to our JAMA IM paper: Clinical Decision Support for Hypertension Management in Chronic Kidney Disease jamanetwork.com/journals/jamai…
Jack Kilgallon Heather Baer Allison B. McCoy, PhD, ACHIP, FACMI, FAMIA mpgannon David Bates Sushrut Waikar Adam Wright Patricia Dykes PhD RN

Patients with evidence of microplastics and nanoplastics in carotid artery plaque, as compared with patients without, had a greater risk of adverse cardiovascular events at 34 months of follow-up. Read the full article: nej.md/3IrM6T8

This letter to CMS from AcademyHealth about the data access debacle is quite good I think

Take notice CMSGov CMS Innovation Ctr and engage with researchers on next steps

academyhealth.org/sites/default/…

Biden’s top man on the opioid epidemic has created a ‘toxic’ office environment ow.ly/ROsb105i5sB

Today, on behalf of over 375 academic researchers spanning over 75 institutions across the United States, Sujith Ramachandran and I submitted  this letter to CMS in response to their new proposed policy of restricting  access to physical CMS data.

tinyurl.com/yuxmpap4

I’ve successfully filed 8 FOIAs and won 3 FOIA lawsuits. The following thread is a guide to filing a FOIA request as a researcher, including templates and real example filings.

Please RT! If this thread is helpful, I'll write a Part 2 on filing FOIA lawsuits.

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Just got the email from CMSGov that they are planning to discontinue physical access to the Medicare/Medicaid research files and force everyone to use the (incredibly expensive) VRDC. In the transition, they'll charge physical data users $10K/year to renew DUAs. This is bad.

Big news for Brown University School of Public Health

Dr. Ateev Mehrotra, MD, MPH is becoming the next Chair of Health Services, Policy & Practice Department

Huge gain for Brown University community and massive loss for HMS HCP Harvard Medical School BIDMC

Congrats, Ateev! Well-deserved!

dean.sph.brown.edu/news/2024-02-0…

Very strange and fairly disgraceful findings in this JAMA paper on who got Paxlovid for Covid-19 in 2022. ONLY Medicare beneficiaries, so money was not the obstacle. More Rx for people at LOWER risk than higher. Less Rx for Black than White patients (1/4) jamanetwork.com/journals/jama-…

If you should be treated for covid you should know that now. Don't wait until you get it, and don't base your plan on how you did with covid previously. Each infection is a new opportunity for a poor outcome, so stay ready! This study shows misallocation🧵
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama-…

Some personal news: I’m going to be an assistant professor in general medicine & health services research at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Grateful for the mentors & friends continue to support & guide me along the way. And humbled, thrilled, honored, etc etc. 🌞🌴

Medicare patients with highest COVID risks were less likely to get treatment, study finds. marketwatch.com/story/medicare… Michael L. Barnett HMS HCP

Don't know how I missed this yesterday but Eli Lilly and Company selling its drugs directly to consumers (per @WSJHealth) is a HUGE move. LillyDirect is a telehealth platform that enables consumers to obtain and then fill a prescription - for conditions treated by Lilly's drugs (1/n)

Earlier this year, World Health Organization (WHO) reported we faced 56 concurrent health emergencies around the world. This new reality of compounding health crises calls for us to build a better way to respond—a global immune system.

Read more in my latest for The New York Times. nytimes.com/2023/12/25/opi…