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Minneapolis, MN
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It took 3 years, but my FIRST paper was just published! Thank you to everyone, especially my coauthor Heather, for their support and mentorship every step of the way.
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To clarify - by āwhatever we wantā I meant the appropriate amount that we are legally (and ethically) allowed to charge. But it doesnāt matter how much OR how little we bill; DRG based reimbursement only pays the set fee. Insurance wouldnāt pay us more $$ even if we charged more.
Note: these are my opinions & I am NOT speaking on behalf of my organization
I didnāt disagree with you, I just donāt think it applies across the board . A safety net hospital is not out for profit; we care for all regardless of ability to pay. Zero reimbursement is also a factor
For any hospital that says they lose money on Medicare/caid patients, I would LOVE to see the bill of materials and direct overhead attributed to the procedures you lose money on
How much you pay for that hip implant, the anesthesia, disposables, the doctors/nurses etc, for the period of time they are working on that hip replacement. The same for any operations or procedures
It's crazy that I can't find that information ANYWHERE
Please show me how you lose money on Direct Costs at Medicare or Medicaid rates , then we can discuss the value of all the consultants , paintings , beautiful buildings , etc contribute to your inability to make money on the Medies
I even bought and went through hospital cost accounting text books and found no real numbers š
Unless you serve primarily Medicare/Medicaid patients and your hospital loses money on every single admission. We charge whatever we want, doesnāt mean weāll actually get anything.
Our safety net hospital is fighting to keep its doors open because others take advantage.
Want another reason why healthcare costs are insane ?
Hospitals will not only charge a facility fee and other random costs BUT ALSO , if they believe the insurance company is willing to pay MORE THAN WHAT WAS ON THE PATIENT BILL, THEY WILL INCREASE THE BILL to the insurance company.
Of course the insurance company then charges the self insured employer the higher amount.
Our healthcare has become a game of who can rip off who and get away with it.
Too Big To Care - all of it.
Break em up !
Aileen Ahiskali retweeted
āāVaccines donāt cause autismā has never been proven.ā Correct, because thatās not how science works.
If I say āsunning your perineum twice per day increases your IQ by 10 pointsā you would say, āprove it.ā The burden of proof is on me, the person with a tanned perineum. If I responded by saying, āno, you prove to me perineal sunning DOESNāT increase your IQ by 10 points,ā I am operating under the false assumption that my perineal sunning claim is fact without evidence to back it up.
The burden of proof is on the person claiming that vaccines cause autism, not the other way around.
RFK Jr. just broke down to a college student that the claim āvaccines donāt cause autismā has never been proven.
āThe people who told you that have been lying to you.ā
āIn fact, only one vaccine has ever been studied, the MMR vaccine.ā
āThe 20 doses of the seven vaccines that are given during the first year of life ā the DTP, the Hib, the hepatitis B, the pneumococcal vaccines and the polio vaccines ā have never been studied.ā
āCongress passed the 1986 Vaccine Act and said, youāve got to study the DTP vaccineā¦ That study has never been done.ā
āThe only studies that were done were MMR studies, and they were all epidemiological studiesā¦ you canāt prove causation with an epidemiological study.ā
āIn 2017, the Institute of Medicine looked at all of the MMR studies and they threw out all but four of themā¦ and the four that were left were all epidemiological studies.ā
āNone of them did what you would want to do if you actually wanted the answer, which is to compare health outcomes in a vaccinated group against health outcomes in an unvaccinated group.ā
āThatās what we need to do and those studies weāre doing now.ā
Aileen Ahiskali retweeted
This is Melissa Hortman, on June 14, 2025 she & her husband John were murdered in a politically motived attack. She stood for environment rights, abortion rights & sensible gun control policies.
No lowered flags!
Can we take a moment to remember her good works.
Please RT.
Aileen Ahiskali retweeted
Dr Edward Jenner created the first-ever vaccine when he found out people infected with cowpox were immune to smallpox. This discovery ultimately led the world to eradicate this deadly disease and save millions of lives ā¬
It snowed a lil bit overnightā¦.š³
Typical Minnesota crap.
Me: Oh wow, 50+ degrees at the end of February, this is great!
MN: LOL HEREāS A FOOT OF SNOW
Just going to leave this here for no specific reason............ š¤
Source: cdc.gov/measles/about/historā¦
I donāt know what sparked this but wow this is amazing š
Thank you, La Mer, for your incredibly kind donation to HCMC!
Logged into NHSN to upload my AU/R dataā¦
ā¦my eyes are rolling all the way out of my head ššš
Aileen Ahiskali retweeted
GUYS, i just got my exam results back ā¦ i am officially an AEROSPACE ENGINEER YAAAAAAAS ā¦ and im celebrating this by seeing beyoncĆ© in Paris ā¦ im so happy and proud of myself ā¦ never give up on yourself NEVER.
First, recommendations during the pandemic evolved in response to emerging data. Why would we know exactly what to do on day 1? Why wouldnāt we update recommendations as we learn more?
Second, vaccines were developed & initially rolled out during Trumpās term.
Quiet down Zuck.
$META
Zucks just went on Joe Rogan and absolutely demolished the Biden Administration for 3 hours.
Goodnessā¦I have never seen him this comfortable in speaking his mind about the government.
Essentially he claims that the Biden admin heavily pressure $META on censoring any pushback people had to vaccines, even if conveyed via memes/satire. When they refused, government agencies began investigating them deeper to intimidate him.
Looks like the Free Speech pivot on community notes & Dana White appointment to the board of directors is in line with Zucks setting up $META not only for the next 4 years of Trump but also for a new era of not working with the government to mass censor.
We know the Trump administration wants all ideas to have an open platform & has heavily resisted Big Tech censoring speech so it seems like, on paper, $META and Trump will get along.
The types of things Zucks is disclosing publicly today on the pod are unbelievableā¦
Genuinely shocked by the awful snow management in Hennepin County this AM.
I didnāt see a single plow on my way in to work at ~6:15am. Seemed like 394 was plowed once a few hours ago or not at all.
Also every road, local or highway, was wickedly/deceivingly icy.
Drive safe!
The reason meds cost more in the hospital is bc thereās literally no other way to fund pharmacists who are literally saving lives behind the scenes. Weāre expensive bc of our extensive clinical knowledge but we canāt bill for any of our time.
PS we never see a fraction of that $$
Hospitals need to also be a hell of a lot more honest about billing. I was billed $40 a day for medication that doesnāt cost me $40 a month.
And yeah, doctors shouldnāt be making $30k/hour. But also, I donāt think anyone should be making that much an hour. The market canāt reasonably afford that.
I could go on & on about how much work hospital pharmacists do that literally no one knows about. Itās fine, we know what we signed up for, we donāt need credit. But sometimes it also sucks to constantly have to defend your profession because people donāt know you exist.