Josh Hart hates analytics: "They're lamp posts to a drunk person. You can lean on them, but it won't get you home" KAT couldn't believe what he said 🤣🤣🤣

A #BrownSPH team tracked more than 200 doctor practices that were bought by UnitedHealth and compared them to similar practices that were not taken over. They estimates that in 2022 alone, the acquisitions were associated with roughly $265 million in additional Medicare Advantage payments.

Always fun to visit USC. Home of past and future Olympics, and 2002 or so western zones meet.

Always fun to visit the Inter Continental and the 1920's art deco pool!

A bit late posting, but great way to end 2025 and start 2026 with annual 100x100. Desc 1-3 on 1:30 this year.

"We, as a country, can improve health care affordability,” Professor @rozmurray.bsky.social says. Oregon was the first US state to limit how much hospitals can charge. Hit the link to learn how much $$$ caps saved (without impacting quality). https://sph.brown.edu/news/2025-12-02/hospital-price-caps

Early morning visit to the best pool in the country. Great 3500 IM/sprint workout with Indy masters!

Re-upping this informative @nihcm.bsky.social chart. Most people have very little health spending. A small number account for nearly all. If we want the people at the top to have access to insurance, then we have to subsidize an insurer to take them and/or require everyone to purchase insurance.

Forthcoming in the AER: "Raising the Stakes: Physician Facility Investments and Provider Agency" by Elizabeth L. Munnich, Michael R. Richards, Christopher M. Whaley, and Xiaoxi Zhao. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

“In general, we find that there’s really not a strong relationship between price and quality,” CAHPR Professor @cwhaley.bsky.social says. “And in many cases… providers who are much more affordable have higher quality.”

Hospitals experience productivity and revenue gains after investing in surgical training programs, from Michael R. Richards, Jonathan Seward, and @cwhaley.bsky.social www.nber.org/papers/w34365

Great opportunity. Great colleagues. (Note: Oct. 24 application deadline) www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....

Summer trip back to where it began! Glad to never have to do 10x400 LCM again!

For no reason at all reminding folks that the Oregon Medicaid experiment was severely underpowered to detect mortality effects and generally underpowered to detect health effects, but recent statistical innovations uncovered health improvements not reported in the original papers

2013 called and wants this stupid "debate" back

Health care employment growth decreased amid the COVID-19 pandemic but fully recovered by 2024. #ARM25 https://ja.ma/4kvYjaL

It is amazing how much nicer NYC is with fewer cars.

Third day at Wilson this year! Great AM set. A crowded pool is a sign of a popular pool!

First day of long course at KMCAC. One of the best days of the year! 5k LC METERS to celebrate.

In a new issue brief, researchers from @brownpublichealth.bsky.social Center for Advancing Health Policy through Research examine the impact of management service organizations (MSOs) on health care delivery/market consolidation, & the regulatory gaps that allow them to operate w/ minimal oversight

Yashaswini Singh, Geronimo Bejarano Cardenas, Hamid Torabzadeh, Christopher Whaley, and Durga Borkar publish a new Health Affairs study on the effects of private equity on ophthalmology. Read for more information on this #NIHCM-supported research: bit.ly/449EwbU | @yashaswini.bsky.social

Back at Wilson pool in DC for an early 3k!

Great early swim with Nashville Masters with gold medalists and WR holders in attendance!! Looking forward to returning for ASHE in June 🏊‍♂️

Five years after the COVID pandemic, we know many policies didn't work well. However, the one policy that was an absolute success is the rapid development and roll-out of COVID vaccines through Operation Warp Speed in the US and a host of international efforts: www.yahoo.com/news/why-res...

Five years after #COVID upended daily life and claimed 1.2M American lives, what have we learned? Neeraj Sood, head of Schaeffer's COVID initiative, breaks down which pandemic policies actually worked in this podcast conversation w/@priceschool.usc.edu last year. sites.libsyn.com/503368/which...

Renters in more regulated counties experienced higher housing expense inflation, greater financial difficulty paying bills, and increased purchase of low-cost beers, from Virat Agrawal, Richard K. Green, Neeraj Sood, and @cwhaley.bsky.social https://www.nber.org/papers/w33534

Great early AM swim with Stanford masters. Nothing better than LCM outside!

A favorite part of DC trips--Wilson Aquatic Center pool. Short course now, but usually LCM!

Great development in Indiana and nice recognition of Gloria! Exciting! kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

My thoughts on the US health care system in 1 sentence in @davidwainer.bsky.social's WSJ article. Patients are caught between disputes between providers and payers on what should be covered (and at what cost). Removing these disputes would require everyone paying more or administrative reform.

No better way to bring in the holidays than 100x100s!

“These findings add to the evidence that hospitals may move patients into the highest billing category in order to increase the amount they are paid for patient care,” said Daniel Crespin, the study's lead author economist at RAND. via the journal Health Affairs www.healthaffairs.org/doi/abs/10.1...