PhD Health Economist | Assistant Professor at Northeastern University https://xitter.cf/t.co/Q0VDIarOzJ Health services research, policy, and economics
Boston, MA
Joined August 2020
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From our new study in JAMA Network Open: Patients whose doctors are integrated with hospitals are more likely to receive cardiac rehab after a major event — and rehab protects against rehospitalization.
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Why it matters: Cardiac rehab saves lives, but many eligible patients don’t get it. Integration may help close that gap.
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Congratulations to Ngoc Thai, who led this work as part of her excellent dissertation, and co-authors Gary Young and Muhammad Noor E Alam!
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For extra credit, many of my health economics students made memes about class content. A short thread:
He gave the coup de grace to odds ratios and now he's FLEXing on the diff in diff lit. @healtheconnort1 feeling buff in 2024
A collab between @Northeastern and @Brown_SPH in Health Affairs Forefront: "The Promise And Pitfalls Of Site-Neutral Payments In Medicare"
Site-neutral payments might be one way to curb Medicare spending and also reduce incentives for health care consolidation.
We talk about what's been done, what's on the horizon, and the challenges ahead.
Great to work with @Jared_Perkins1 and @CM_Whaley on this!
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I had a great chat with Health Affairs editor-in-chief @alanrweil about hospital-physician integration and intensity of cardiac care. Link to the podcast below. Thanks @Health_Affairs for having me on the show!
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NEW #AHealthPodyssey: @Healt_Affairs' @alanrweil interviews @Northeastern's @BradyJPost on his published paper examining differences in care among patients treated by cardiologists who are either practicing independently or as part of a hospital system. bit.ly/45k1if3
