Another important finding:

Duals enrolled in integrated care models were *much less likely* to dis-enroll from Medicaid.

Integrated models included PACE, MMPs and FIDEs.

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Happy anniversary - 14 years, four kids, three moves and counting - to the hardest-working and fiercest woman I know - my wife Asima Ahmad, MD, MPH, FACOG 🥰

I'm the luckiest guy I know.

Emphasizing - “for the first time… we can now change the natural history of #HFpEF .”Mortality ⬇️ remains elusive but quality of life and morbidity are modifiable. Time to #Implement . American College of Cardiology #ACC2024 Sanjiv J. Shah, MD NM Cardiovascular

Sign me up for anything Christina Farr chooses to do :) I highly recommend engaging with her in whatever hat she chooses to wear :) Godspeed, my friend, on this next chapter!

Welcome to our new Yale Traditional Medicine Residency Program interns!!! Yale Internal Medicine!!! What an exciting day and extraordinary Match!!!

Burnout is not a badge of honor. 'I'm so stressed!' doesn't signal status.

When people brag about being overwhelmed, they're seen as less capable and caring. They get less help—and drain their colleagues.

The appropriate response to stress isn't to boast. It's to seek support.

Recognizing the challenges faced by practices and patients due to the. change Healthcare cyber attacks, CMS has instructed MA plans and others to relax prior auth and UM and timely filing requirements.

When all is said and done, will this be a period of higher or lower cost?

Today Emory University WHSC leadership announced that Sept 1st I will become Chair of the Emory Department of Medicine I am excited about this next stage and look forward to leading the department as the first graduate of the residency program, the first IMG and first Hispanic.

I bet not many Chairs of Medicine get to chop it up with Chairs of English, Fine Arts, History, etc. Fireside chat yesterday Howard University between Chairs & Deans (seated.)

(Yes, that is the amazing Ms. Phylicia Rashad in the front row, Dean, Chadwick Bozeman College of Fine Arts.)

6/x But, if MA plans must cover everything Medicare covers, could that increase waste, undermining Congress’s initial intent with Medicare Advantage?

Data do show that there tends to be more low-value care in traditional Medicare than MA Brian Powers

jamanetwork.com/journals/jama-…

Alabama, are we going to be the last to expand Medicaid?

Mississippi is about to beat us to it.

This is a terrible decision by CMSGov that will harm research, harm health policy, and harm health outcomes. It will damage work done by clinical researchers like Harlan Krumholz and health economists like Adam Sacarny. With changes like this, there would be no The Dartmouth Institute Atlas.

It's a #MedTwitter #SuperBowlLVIII with a house divided - one kid a San Francisco 49ers diehard, the other channeling her inner Eve Bloomgarden MD 🟦 🎗️ #SwiftieBowl ... h/t Vanille!

Do you provide long-acting insulin for your patients with DKA while still in the ED? Check out this protocol which reduced ICU admissions and hospital readmissions. 🎩 tip to the authors!

eddyjoemd.com/foamed/

An implantable hemodynamic monitor significantly reduces both mortality and HF 🏨 in HFrEF

Implantable Hemodynamic Monitors Improve Survival in Patients With Heart Failure and Reduced Ejection Fraction | Journal of the American College of Cardiology jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.…

My mom was the first woman ever hired as an engineer at Ford Motor Co. A refugee from the other side of the world, she is remarkable in every way — as an engineer and as a mom. It was the mid-1960s, and she wore a sari every day to the office. It was such an honor for me to share…

I collect sentences I wish I wrote.

Here are 7 to make ya think - all from fiction:

1. Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

A sign of emotional intelligence is refusing to let feelings dictate decisions.

Feelings are electrical signals in the brain. We don't choose every sensation, but we are responsible for how we react.

Emotions are rarely calls to action. They're usually cause for reflection.…

Mama Kelce looking for Jason after last year's Super Bowl always hits me right in the feels.

'Go celebrate with Trav' gets me every time.