why no dads.gov 🤔🤔

Now up at Health Affairs Forefront, @michaelannica.bsky.social and I analyze CMS's proposed rule regarding prior authorization for prescription drugs, contextualizing it as an extension of the 2024 prior auth rule and considering its broader implications. www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore...

I learned so much working with these drug pricing policy all-stars so I think you will too!

Our @jamahealthforum.com paper, "Prescription Drug Monitoring Program Reminder Emails, Program Use, and Prescribing" has been selected as a JAMA Network Clinical Trial of the Year! Read it here: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

"A patient does not shop for CPT 27447. They shop for a successful knee replacement. Listing the price of a single code is useless if the patient does not know they also need a specialist consultation, anesthesia, and facility fees." academyhealth.org/blog/2026-03...

Excited to see this piece with @michaelannica.bsky.social and @rachelsachs.bsky.social out We looked at the Rural Health Transformation Program: Its funding formula had a clear small-state bias; we ask whether its scoring methodology also perhaps favored red states academic.oup.com/healthaffair...

My man clearly had to fight with Cigna over an MRI

Omg it is happening!!!

Honored to be testifying before the Health Subcommittee of the House Committee on Energy & Commerce today to discuss the role of the prescription drug supply chain in drug affordability. My testimony is linked below. energycommerce.house.gov/events/healt...

Administrative burdens: policymaking by other means

“I’m applying this dissemination approach to every piece of work I’m doing,” Dr. Jalpa Doshi said. “I’m choosing what I’m going to be working on based on its potential for impact.” @pennldi.bsky.social ldi.upenn.edu/our-work/res...

My heart is breaking for all the parents who are desperately trying to figure out how to protect their children from their own government. My heart is breaking even more for those who came to the US to avoid this exact situation.

As an example of these dynamics, if the administration is concerned about the perception that these deals are unlikely to be meaningful, I don't know if it is helpful to center at the press conference the price reduction for brand-name Plavix, a drug which has had generic competition since 2012.

Being a patient with a chronic illness, or their caregiver, is a full time job. Health systems do not run themselves with the patient’s time in mind.

Eagles sports radio is gonna make the red wedding look like a romantic comedy

Recommend this excellent thread from Rachel, with additional observation that several scoring components of the RHTP incentivize workforce/scope of practice efforts which are undermined by this concurrent policy change: www.yahoo.com/news/article...

To anyone who teaches ethics - the current Eagles team drama is a perfect case study of deontology vs consequentialism.

Fortunately, PTSD is a condition whose treatment is covered under the essential health benefits that remain in place thanks to the progress of the Affordable Care Act.

3) If you are donating items, please inspect them to be sure the packaging is fully intact. 4) Please check expiration dates. All food items have a "use by" date on the box/can. Writing the expiration date (MM/YY) on the box with a sharpie helps (I need to check every item). Thanks.

As a food bank volunteer , some tips on how to be most helpful during this challenging time (personal views only): 1) If you can, avoid calling or emailing. Food banks are overwhelmed and are often staffed by volunteers. Most have websites with FAQs. 2) Prioritize $ donations when feasible.

“The question of who gets to live as long as they should isn’t moral but systemic. We often say that death is the great unifier as it’s the one thing that we all have in common. But sometimes, I look around and wonder if even the after-life is segregated.”

You've heard me talk about it. You've seen me write about it. And now it's your chance to pre-order my forthcoming book Coverage Denied! Combining survey & administrative data with extensive interviews, my book highlights the harms caused by coverage barriers. Hope you'll read it! cup.org/4nfM2IM

Coverage restrictions aren’t free. Such a creative study - with super important implications!

Over 125 economists signed the open letter calling on the President, Congress, and the American public to uphold the principles of Federal Reserve independence and not remove Lisa Cook without due process. There's still time to sign! And please share. #EconSky docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I found some of my papers in LibGen

There's a lawsuit about AI stealing your work. It's the same lawyers taking on Elsevier et al in a separate case. Academics: 1. Check if your work is in LibGen at www.theatlantic.com/technology/a... 2. If so, let the lawyers know at www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...

A must-read piece. The part that resonates most for me personally is the importance of being in community - it means more than ever to give myself reminders of who I am working with and working for 🩷

Dropping my teen off at work shortly. This week they were scheduled for 23 hours, got sent home 2 hours early 2x this week as place was empty Doesn't matter for them except slightly less thrifting But this scenario will play hell with people w/ #Medicaid as work requirements are imposed.

Medicaid is under attack, despite its importance in helping many of the most vulnerable Americans in some of their hardest times trying to make their lives better by @mirandayaver.bsky.social @medpagetoday.com www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...

I wish we could get people to understand that there is enough for everybody on this earth if we do right by each other. Like there is plenty bro. More than plenty. We could all be great together, with full bellies and energized minds.

Important new review of ways researchers may be able to understand family #caregiver roles - and the need for more data on this “invisible” labor

My research was possible because of a career development grant from the NIH. The NIH directly and indirectly (via training grants) supported much of the work in this article. The NIH supports basic science...and it supports research to make sure all of us can benefit from those discoveries.

I’ve spent my entire life working to improve the lives of people who are living in poverty. The need continues to get greater every day. I hope you join me in this drive because days like today make me want to fight harder for our collective humanity. I 💙 you, Medicaid.

I was a direct beneficiary of Title IX in college sports. Parity in women's sports is so recent that my college coach was coaching at Yale and present for this protest that led to Title IX. I'm sad this thing that gave me opportunity was used to deny the same to others. www.espn.com/espnw/title-...

Trying to identify opioids and other drugs in pharmacy data (claims, PDMP, etc.)? Use my code to quickly build a list of national drug codes (NDCs) using the free public database RxNorm. I wrote this code to replace the CDC's now-discontinued opioid NDC dataset. github.com/asacarny/dru...

Please read this @khoureld.bsky.social story about the consequences of USAID cuts. Children are dying from starvation on the streets of Sudan — and the food that could save them, already paid for by our government, is languishing in U.S. warehouses. (No paywall)

So much harm planned by this administration and so little effort to stop it.

My HCRIS hospital cost report code + data is updated through 2024! I threw the switch and moved everything to R. The new code lets you pull variables from the alphanumeric file, like hospital names and IDs. NB: I'm using this data now but pls think of it like beta testing. github.com/asacarny/hos...

A lot of you have been asking how my 10 million beneficial nematodes are doing. Well the answer is that me and my 10 million microscopic sons are doing great! Thanks so much

Turn it on!!

The NYT put together a comprehensive inforgraphic on lost federal funding for research at Harvard I leanrned a lot about what my colleagues are doing! www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Well worth 4 mins to watch the sensational Faith Kipyegon run *anything* www.runnersworld.com/uk/news/a651...

Does it matter when patients don’t speak the same language as their physician, especially in critical situation such as ICU stays? It does! They tend to be admitted longer. Come check out my @umassamherst.bsky.social colleague’s (David Chin) poster A-283 at @academyhealth.bsky.social

Musk has a net worth that is almost eight times the size of Harvard's endowment; shouldn't he just keep funding the spacecraft on his own?

"Patients with household incomes less than $50,000 annually were least likely to have denied claims contested and, conditionally, have cost-sharing obligations reduced." www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/...

🚨🚨🚨 Presenting our new study on Medicare Advantage at #ASCO25! Lower use of low value cancer care among Medicare Advantage beneficiaries. Simultaneously published in JCO 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼 ascopubs.org/doi/10.1200/...

"Getting rid of USAID is a very easy way of winning headlines... But if your one accomplishment in government is to rip funds away from the neediest, so that they can die, so they can be unmedicated, so that they can starve, that is a moral stain that I hope will haunt you 'til the day you die."