cardiology fellow @ColumbiaCardio via @BrighamMedRes @washumedicine.
New York, NY
Joined June 2021
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📣Was the latest policy change to the controversial Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program associated with an improvement in equity?
In @Health_Affairs with RJ Waken, @RahulAggarwalMD, and ⭐️ mentors @kejoynt @rkwadhera
Here: bit.ly/3tIyT0e
Thread👇🏽
Sukruth Shashikumar retweeted
Officially two weeks into #Cardiology #Fellowship! Feeling incredibly grateful to be part of such a brilliant, humble, and supportive group. Excited for all that’s ahead over the next few years! @ColumbiaCardio
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Congratulations to our amazing seniors on spectacular match! 🌟 We are so proud of you & can’t wait to watch you thrive next year!
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It’s a match! We’re so proud to welcome the newest members of the Columbia cardiology family
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So excited for this all-star intern crew to join us in June!! Huge congratulations on a fantastic and well-deserved #match2025! 🎉
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Very proud of our health policy research team who will be presenting impactful work at the Academy Health Annual Meeting in Baltimore this weekend, including 5 simultaneous publications!
Please swing by and check out this fantastic group of trainees' research👇 #ARM2024
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Somehow a year flew by and I finished intern year! I feel like I’ve learned so much yet know absolutely nothing. Anxious (but also excited!) to be a PGY-2, looking forward to working with the new interns soon, and so glad to have my co-interns by my side 💙
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In this national cross-sectional study of privately insured US families, inflation-adjusted health care spending increased from 2007 to 2019, largely owing to increasing contributions to premiums. @_sukruth @kejoynt @rkwadhera ja.ma/4bUVj2X
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Physician group practices accrued large bonuses under Medicare’s bundled payment model. @_sukruth of @BrighamMedRes, @Andy_Ryan_dydx of @Brown_SPH + coauthors find BPCI-A participants accrued $421 million in incentives, 2018-20. Read the full article: bit.ly/3yl2qTV
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Gosh. Look not at the absolute but relative medical costs in low vs high income families.
Our wealth transfer healthcare system is especially bad b/c it most harms those who make less.
Important data 👇🏻👇🏻
Our new @JAMAInternalMed study led by @_sukruth evaluates changes in the financial burden of health care among privately insured US families from 2007-2019
We find a worsening crisis of affordability among privately insured families with low incomes
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam…
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There is a lot of chatter about OOP spending as a financial burden for lower income individuals (it is), but there isnt enough chatter about the burden of rising premiums.
This great study by @_sukruth @kejoynt and @rkwadhera puts a spotlight on this issue. 👏👏
Our new @JAMAInternalMed study led by @_sukruth evaluates changes in the financial burden of health care among privately insured US families from 2007-2019
We find a worsening crisis of affordability among privately insured families with low incomes
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam…
Sukruth Shashikumar retweeted
Our new @JAMAInternalMed study led by @_sukruth evaluates changes in the financial burden of health care among privately insured US families from 2007-2019
We find a worsening crisis of affordability among privately insured families with low incomes
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam…
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It’s that great time of year when we find out about the next generation of MDs joining us at @BrighamWomens!
Welcome to the incredible new @BrighamMedRes Intern Class of 2024!
Amazing to see that 21% from URIM backgrounds! @Brigham_DI
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New website just dropped:
cahpr.sph.brown.edu/
These drawings are the best part IMO.
@efusebrown @cyruskosar @CM_Whaley @ysingh_hopkins @ambilinski @instrumenthull @djmeyers2
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#Medicare #bundledpayments aiming to promote more efficient care, did not incentivize lower spending or higher quality for cardiovascular events or procedures highlighting need for other approaches @_sukruth @kejoynt @BrighamResearch @CAHSPER_IPH ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/…
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This is an editorial to a fantastic study by @_sukruth @kejoynt and colleagues evaluating whether bundled payments have impacted spending, quality, and outcomes for cardiovascular conditions and procedures.
ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/…
Sukruth Shashikumar retweeted
In @CircAHA, I discuss value-based payment reform in #cardiology
What have learned over the past decade? Where do we go next? And imp. of recognizing that we may need to spend more - not less - to improve health in populations w/ social risk factors. bit.ly/46vr2F4
CMS is investing $ billions in bundled payments to fix rising spending, incl. for🫀disease
🚨But today in @CircAHA, we find bundled payments are NOT a/w⬇️spending, usage,🏥,or☠️for cardiac events or procedures
Time for other approaches to⬇️CVD spending?
ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.…
🙏🏽 grateful to the inimitable @kejoynt and Drs. Zheng, Orav, and Epstein for an all-star team
✍🏽and many thanks to @rkwadhera for his thought-provoking editorial on our work and the future of value-based payment for cardiovascular care: ahajournals.org/doi/epub/10.…
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In a new paper in @Health_Affairs, we found that favorable selection in Medicare Advantage inflated benchmarks and resulted in billions in excess payments to Medicare Advantage plans.
healthaffairs.org/doi/full/1…
Here’s the deal
1/8
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In their new Forefront article, Andrew Ryan, @jbuxbaum86, @_sukruth, + @economicsRx from @BrownUniversity, @harvardmed, @BrighamWomens, + @UMich discuss how @CMSGov signaled an interest in reforming episode-based payment in traditional Medicare. bit.ly/45FKq23
