Parting message from Joel:

Even though he’s just moving just a block away, it still feels like a massive loss…

The incredible Dr. Joel Katz is officially moving on from Brigham and Women's Hospital hospital to Dana-Farber in a new role, bringing an end to a massive med-ed era at BWH…

He is becoming the new VP of Education & inaugural Designated Institutional Official at #DFCI .

Congrats, Joel!

1/8 We are excited to highlight our recent publication in JAGS @AGSjournal, funded by an The National Institute on Aging (NIA) R56 grant, indicating that observation stays are highest among those with Alzheimer’s Disease and Alzheimer’s Disease Related Dementias (AD/ADRD). agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jg…

Steward health system reporting over *$9 billion* in debt and now for sale

Debt includes:
—$290 million in unpaid employee wages/benefits
—$1 billion in unpaid bills to suppliers/medical vendors
—$1.2 billion in loans
—$6.6 billion in rent obligations

beckershospitalreview.com/finance/stewar…

Steward healthcare system officially filed for bankruptcy today…

Leaves tens of thousands of patients, ~16,000 employees, and 8 hospitals in limbo across Mass…

Massive problem for state, which already faces many issues with access and affordability…

bostonglobe.com/2024/05/06/bus…

We are looking for post-doctoral fellows to join us at Harvard Health Policy and Management Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health!

Research areas include:
1. Medicare Advantage
2. Dual Eligibles
3. New Medicare APMs
4. Quality/Equity/Social Risk
5. PE/consolidation

If interested, pls email CV to [email protected]

Here’s the dirty secret of emergency medicine:

We don’t have to do prior auth. Like ever. We just order what the patient needs, and the patient gets it done in the ED.

But here’s why we care about prior auth anyways:

B/c not a shift goes by where a patient doesn’t land in the

*Updated #NIA FY ‘24 Paylines*

Slight increases across the board:

1. General payline slightly better than FY ‘23 (⬆️ 1% point). 🙂

2. ADRD paylines up a little but still much lower than FY ‘23 (⬇️ ~8% points)… 😕

The National Institute on Aging (NIA) NIH Funding

nia.nih.gov/research/grant…

🚨New paper in Health Services Research 🚨

w/Jose Figueroa, MD, MPH Melissa Garrido Gretchen Jacobson Mike Adelberg Austin Frakt

Tl;dr: We measure MA network restrictiveness across specialties using a claims-based approach & correlate w/market factors

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…

Glad to see that CMSGov is postponing plans to end the on-site data access that has been crucial for research and policymaking. They are clearly listening to our concerns. Many thanks to the folks who pressed the administration + folks in the admin and CMS who are listening.

Dual-eligible beneficiaries losing Medicaid increased steadily prior to the COVID-19 public health emergency and fell significantly during the PHE. ja.ma/3xpiaVd Jose Figueroa, MD, MPH Harvard Health Policy and Management Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

For those watching today's MACPAC meeting, this is the paper on how dual-eligibles benefitted from the continuous coverage provision that was just cited

We are looking for post-doctoral fellows to join us at Harvard Health Policy and Management Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health!

Research areas include:
1. Medicare Advantage
2. Dual Eligibles
3. New Medicare APMs
4. Quality/Equity/Social Risk
5. PE/consolidation

If interested, pls email CV to [email protected]