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admin burden microcosm: can't reorder contacts from Warby Parker bc eye exam expired (sigh), so I make appt via my account for exam next week at WP, yet am still peppered with "we can't complete your order" messages?!? You have access to literally the universe of my eye info ON YOUR WEBSITE!!!

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For 38 years, PRAMS has collected critical data on maternal-child health with the goal to reduce infant morbidity and mortality. CDC has officially halted the 2024 PRAMS data collection for the participating 46 states and the future is uncertain.

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This is a deeply concerning (and frankly, mystifying) development at the CDC that has totally flown under the radar. PRAMS provides basic public health surveillance of maternal-child health outcomes and they have quietly shut it down.

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Eagles to the chiefs rn

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No one lets go of anyone’s hand.

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As I was leaving the medical center today after a busy day of seeing patients, I was pulling out of the parking lot and saw one of my last patients of the day, a teen with a fractured hand, and his mom, waiting at the bus stop across the street to head home. In our busy days, it’s easy to forget…

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I wish I could apply for this, sounds awesome!!!

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I hear that the extremely cool Medicaid director in Oregon (IYKYK) is looking for a chief of staff: oregon.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/SOR_Ex...

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Little interview with Julia, 15, with Nemaline Myopathy. She is asked what it is like to never be alone: "You have almost no privacy. And you must continuously always be nice to everyone". Especially the last part hit home, so insightful. You can never be mad, you must always be easy & grateful.

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CMS estimated this rule would "save older adults and people with disabilities nearly 19 million hours of paperwork" and "$87 million on transportation, copying, postage, and other related costs" each year. www.cms.gov/newsroom/fac...

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Now up at Health Affairs, my 2024 year in review in pharma policy (IRA implementation, PBM scrutiny, the election, and more), and a look ahead to 2025 (in addition to the above, a focus on 340B and important cases involving Judges O'Connor and Kacsmaryk). www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore...

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In a @statnews.com Op-Ed Joey Mattingly and I discuss the complexity of supporting community pharmacies in the modern retail environment www.statnews.com/2025/01/15/p...

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The intensity and seriousness of cancer care has prompted attention to the wide-ranging impact of "time toxicity" of care on patients and caregivers. We would benefit from improved understanding of such burdens and their tradeoffs in other areas as well: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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Writing in @jama.com, @rgfrank.bsky.social and I have a new piece examining the IRA's Medicare Part D redesign. We argue that the redesign deserves greater scholarly attention and discuss four key themes of interest to policymakers. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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🚨 Re-upping this Postdoc at Yale! 🚨 It is a great time to be at YSPH: 1️⃣ We're a newly-independent school 2️⃣ W/ a fantastic new dean @meganranney.bsky.social 3️⃣ The school is doing impactful work in many areas This is a great place to finish the work you've started and launch new collaborations!

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🚨 The #FinancialToxicity special issue of JCO OP is LIVE today! 🚨 We hope these papers will encourage the next gen of researchers to generate, evaluate, & disseminate patient-centered, high-quality, evidence-based medicine & policy solutions to close the affordability gap! ascopubs.org/toc/op/21/1

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Any advice on how to break down ACS estimates by coverage typeemploymentage*county? Ideally looking for numbers of 65+ with private insurance & employed by county.... #healthpolicysky @dmaanderson.bsky.social

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There are many thorny challenges in health care (many of which Atheen studies) but scheduling an appointment should be a solved problem.

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This is great work. I would also add my concern that due to lack of attention/action on risk-adjustment, optimizing HCC coding became an obvious, lucrative, and largely costless (in terms of member complaints) lever to pull--fueling growth while shielding benes from true MA-TM choice tradeoffs

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"... even an organization full of health policy experts with PhDs sometimes struggle to navigate the system and gain approvals, often assisted by our human resources department" Raise your hand if your #healthpolicy bent means you've had to advise your health navigator or HR folks about benefits.

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🚨🚨🚨 Come work with me! 🚨🚨🚨 Laura Attanansio and I are hiring for a 2-year postdoc position at @umassamherst.bsky.social, starting in summer '25. We have a few exciting projects focused on health care prices, care affordability, and perinatal care quality. careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...

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A student somehow accidentally emailed the entire NYU faculty and the reply-all carnage is like a freeway pile-up

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A publicly-funded study of the venomous saliva of the Gila monster is exactly the kind of silly sounding basic science John McCain and Tom Coburn used to rail about in the Senate, but it changed the course of medicine pretty substantially in the last 20y. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

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Please give me examples of great papers using the IPUMS-DHS data to inspire my MSc students! (Also any tips for working with these data as an instructor…)

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Characteristically thoughtful -- and v concerning -- analysis ascopubs.org/doi/10.1200/...

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Vertical integration

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