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Health policy analyst focusing on kidney care delivery issues, competent home cook, DC area sports fan. He/him. #NephSky
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Elon Musk's Cruella de Vil of a mother has encouraged him to sue a journalist who referenced his Nazi salute at Trump's inauguration. Threatening to sue journalists when they report your bad acts is designed to make them scared to criticize you. Musk is only for free speech when it serves him.

Unless they attack cops while trying to overturn an election

The RPA Board of Directors doing what it does best, having a great time.

Removing DEI from study and trial participant selection is tremendously detrimental to the vast majority of patients - who (shocker) are not white males. #shockednotshocked #DEI

THIS! 100% this…

Hail, HTTC, all of it! Sorry for my friends in Detroit (sincerely, no snark) but you don’t know what’s going to happen until you play the game.

Kevin Burkhart (announcing my grocery store trip): There's the milk, there's some bread, and wow, he's going for the ice cream! Tom Brady: The supermarket is a place where fresh and pre-packaged food is sold for consumption by humans.

Hail

Corporations give money to Trump because they, like him, only care about themselves.

Hail

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The GOP is really working really hard to prevent the evidence of Trump’s innocence from being released.

Holiday baked manicotti. Yes, please.

Incredibly disheartening that the House adjourned cutting physician pay 2.8% while preserving untold profits for pharmacy benefit managers. This will limit access to care for #Medicare beneficiaries. The original funding bill addressed both of these issues.

My retirement planner recommended I join a doomsday cult.

I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget

You still have people saying, "I don't see any evidence that Musk is a neo-Nazi." And it's like, I can't know what's in his heart, but he follows them on Twitter, retweets them, promotes their conspiracy theories, parrots their rhetoric, and now recommends their party for Germany. But who knows?

the feds: stop trying to turn this guy into some cool antihero with a badass public image also the feds: *treat him like they’ve captured the joker*

you knew who you are

The fact that I know more about Fani Willis’ and Nathan Wade’s relationship than I do about the crimes committed by Ginni Thomas and Clarence Thomas shows exactly what is terribly wrong with today’s political mainstream media.

Do what Adonia says to do! I do!

Early holiday gift from one Dr. Robert Kossmann, a kidney cowboy baseball hat, look closely at the second pic, the cowboy is in fact a kidney. Great stuff, Rob’s the man. #Nephsky

This hits close to home

the frenzy over the hunter biden pardon is a good reminder that the press knows how to make something a scandal and has decided that nothing trump does is truly deserving of that treatment

Turkey carcass gumbo. This worked.

Our first #NephSky post - introducing our Fall 2024 Newsletter Check out what's been happening in our Division 👇 issuu.com/mountsinaido... #SinaiStrong #Nephrology

For everyone celebrating Thanksgiving alone, enjoy yourself!

Folks, ICYMI CMS/CMMI released the final rule for the IOTA kidney transplant payment model, and pushed the start date back to 7/1/2025. It also made other positive changes. The final rule/press release are here: www.cms.gov/newsroom/pre... www.federalregister.gov/public-inspe...

Glad to see CMS recognize that nephrologists should not be held accountable for things done before the patient was their patient. The shared savings payment changes and excluding TDAPA are welcome as well. #nephsky #kidneymodels

Folks, if you haven't heard CMS/CMMI announced substantial (and very pleasantly surprising) changes to the voluntary kidney payment models for 2025 today, details at the link below. cdn.ymaws.com/www.renalmd....

RPA joined a broad coalition of organizations in urging Congress to extend the alternate payment model (APM) incentive payments that are scheduled to expire on December 31, 2024. Read the letter below. cdn.ymaws.com/www.renalmd....

This is a good argument against treating Trump’s win as any kind of mandate for sweeping change

Clench your jaw. Drink only caffeine. Don’t go to bed until 3 AM. Forget to eat anything until 6 tonight and then eat 2.5 plates of pasta. We’re in this together.

It was a privilege and a pleasure to discuss nephrology workforce issues at the AAKP Public Policy Summit in DC today. In short, we have to pay health professionals more, reduce administrative burdens, address lifestyle concerns, and make nephrology more attractive to medical students.

ICYMI Baxter spun off its renal group 🤔 It was renamed Vantive 🤷🏽‍♂️ But now It’s been sold to private equity 😰 Carlyle group, more details here www.healio.com/news/nephrol... and some wise comments from Brent Miller #NephSky

🌍 Don’t forget to sign the @ISNkidneycare petition urging @WHO to prioritize kidney disease. Also, check out @hswapnil's insightful review! Every signature counts—let's go for the cause! #NephJC www.nephjc.com/news/isn-who...

Folks, if you haven't heard there's a bill in Congress that would stop the slated Medicare physician payment cut for 2025 and actually provide a modest increase in Medicare payment. Medicare Patient Access and Practice Stabilization Act" (H.R. 10073). 1/