Start with the cafe. Then shop
15.02.2026 13:05
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Start with the cafe. Then shop
I dream of a world where this is a top 10 problem. Remember when we used to have debates about this and NYU med school and SPRINT? Golden age
lol. Read the room acp
Pretty galling what the first urologist tried to do here. www.statnews.com/2026/01/21/w...
Same wish this year
Why do you hate innovation
Said title…
There’s a lot going on, but I’m going to plug my favorite authors on my favorite esoteric/devastating/unknown-to-HSRs methods issue, with the best paper title I’ve seen in a long time psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...
We hope you can join us & @pennchibe.bsky.social for a virtual keynote presentation from Amy Finkelstein about rethinking common inferences in healthcare.
Wednesday 10/29 at 12 PM ET. Register here: https://bit.ly/3VIvfC2
Predictive model teaching slides
Bold! I thought increasing payment to PCPs would fix all our problems.
Welp. I suppose this is comforting
Yes. And wondering if anybody in the single payer movement is absorbing any lessons here
Friends don't let friends give preregistration a bad name. Exploratory findings are fine; you just have to label them!
Oh yes. And the peculiar failure to cite any of those prior papers
Not a fan of any disease that begins “new world”
Proposition: Hearing the words “best practice” is a near-perfect indicator of terrible decision making.
…but it might work for us
Yes. I don’t think the senders have any appreciation for how much I subliminally hate any politician who allows their name to be used in donation spam. It’s unavoidable even if I like them, rationally. Little by little the spam is hardwiring name-associated revulsion in my reptile brain.
My fealty to the leader who will stop the spam
Serious concerns about a new cortical biomarker for pain sensitivity
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
We (with @tspisak.bsky.social, @christianbuchel.bsky.social) published a commentary on Chowdhury, Bi et al. (2025, JAMA Neurology) raising serious concerns about their reported results.
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Kinda misleading headline, but article covers some very important proposed changes to the role of the RUC and other aspects of RBRVS.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/u...
Ma’am, would you like several fiddly tests whose results about 1% of the medical community can interpret correctly followed by *maybe* a surgery or would you like a once a day pill that will probably sort things?
Yesssss. I cannot describe my satisfaction with this post.
Time for your yearly reminder that “We need less research, better research, and research done for the right reasons”. #OTD 1948 Douglas Altman b (d 3 June 2018) “One of the most influential medical statisticians of the past 50 years” he led reforms in medical research reliability & reporting. 1/3
#ARM25
Like, what does it mean when a Medicaid program increases its spending on primary care? Seems critical to know if provider taxes also increased and what if anything is known about their incidence on PCPs. Ditto equity investments accompanied by tax hikes. Etc.
Mandatory reading for health services researchers: recent BCBSMA Foundation primer on Medicaid provider taxes www.bluecrossmafoundation.org/about-us/new...
This has to be one of the most important aspects of Medicaid policy that almost nobody knows about. Critical to interpreting Medicaid spending
Universal issue: if you increase the returns to gaming… www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/b...
Attention health services researchers: funding opportunity here