Jason Lesnick, MD retweeted
Physician conversion factors:
2000: $36.6173
2003: $36.7856
2006: $37.8975
2009: $36.0666
2012: $34.0376
2015: $35.7547
2018: $35.9996
2021: $34.8931
2024: $32.7442
UHC stock up 8,556%
Insurance premiums up 342%
Inflation up 86%
Physician pay down 10%
We should keep cutting physician pay so families have more money in their pockets through reduced costs and reduced premiums based on the last 25 years of experience.
Average US family health insurance premium...
2000: $6k
2003: $9k
2006: $11k
2009: $13k
2012: $16k
2015: $18k
2018: $20k
2021: $22k
2024: $26k
That's a 342% increase since 1999 (6.1% per year).
(Note: US CPI inflation has increased 2.5%/year)
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Jason Lesnick, MD retweeted
Really incredible article about an insurance company disciplining a doctor for following the standard of care.
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Looks like their “experts” are just as bad as some of the most crooked plaintiff experts I see.
Jason Lesnick, MD retweeted
Should insurance companies dictate the educational needs of EPs? (Spoiler alert: No.)
Humana threatened to report James Moak, MD, to the National Practitioner Data Bank, saying the decision was final & not subject to appeal … for a patient he never saw. tinyurl.com/bddscek3
Jason Lesnick, MD retweeted
Private equity acquisition of hospitals, on average, was associated with increased hospital-acquired adverse events despite a likely lower-risk pool of admitted Medicare beneficiaries, suggesting poorer quality of inpatient care.
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Jason Lesnick, MD retweeted
On a recorded call, a @UHC nurse and an insurance broker laugh while discussing a patient whose claim had just been rejected.
They agree that any appeal would be a waste of the family’s time and money:
“We’re still gonna say no.”
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Jason Lesnick, MD retweeted
This is the type of doctor @UHC employs as a “medical director.” This person is denying medical claims in the year 2023.
Jason Lesnick, MD retweeted
#TipsForNewDocs
You are now a physician, a member of an ancient and honorable profession.
You are not a "provider."
That term was created by the government and insurance companies to decrease your power in the doctor-patient relationship.
Accept no denigration.
Jason Lesnick, MD retweeted
• United Health will PROFIT about $22.3 billion this year.
• 50% of hospitals will lose money this year.
• 47% of US healthcare workers plan to leave within the next 3 years.
That is the current state of US healthcare, and it should terrify everyone.
Jason Lesnick, MD retweeted
This @CNN article is biased & promotes the villainazation of practicing physicians. In general media is being incentivized to do this- they’re using it to justify decreasing physician reimbursement, the use of non-physician practitioners, AI tooling etc…
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Jason Lesnick, MD retweeted
The projected 250,000 annual deaths in the US were extrapolated from a single study done 18 years ago in a single Canadian academic center's high acuity area where, of 503 patients, a single patient died of aortic dissection.
3/8
Jason Lesnick, MD retweeted
Recklessly faulty research that undermines the public’s trust in emergency departments cannot stand. EMRA joins EM organizations in addressing the misleading recent @AHRQNews report on ED diagnostic error
bit.ly/3V4AzwI @nytimes
1/8
Jason Lesnick, MD retweeted
When adjusted for inflation, Medicare physician payments have dropped by 22% from 2001 to 2021. So why are you cutting it more? How much money have you saved? You’re digging in the wrong place. @SecBecerra @HHSGov @CMSGov
Jason Lesnick, MD retweeted
I just want to make a few things clear:
The Holocaust happened.
Hitler was a demonic figure.
And instead of giving it a platform, our political leaders should be calling out and rejecting antisemitism wherever it hides.
Silence is complicity.
Jason Lesnick, MD retweeted
New study of almost 600,000 deaths in Ohio and Florida shows that registered Republicans had far higher excess-death rates than registered Democrats during the pandemic, with almost all of the gap coming after vaccines were available.
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Jason Lesnick, MD retweeted
Another ER docs response to the question…how are things in the ER these days?
Jason Lesnick, MD retweeted
2 nurses assaulted every hour, Press Ganey analysis shows - And it doesn’t stop with nurses. The violence against healthcare workers is real in the wake of COVID. 1 in 3 physicians plan to exit the profession in the next couple years. What’s our plan? beckershospitalreview.com/nu…
