I want everyone to read this post👇and then sit back and laugh at Loren Adler and his band of trolls. #NSA #norsurprisesact They are policy wonks paid by $UNH $CI nothing they say or publish should be taken as anything but insurer propaganda.

Another place for ProPublica to research David Armstrong

Health policy wonk who pumps out propaganda bashing docs and supporting insurance companies is….paid by insurance companies. Color me shocked. Shocked I say.

Take a minute and realize how absolutely laughable this statement (quoted below) that increased physician payments in NSA above an artificially low QPA will cause an increase in insurance premiums.

FACTS:

One half of one percent of all claims are NSA eligible per AHIP (.005).…

Thanks Dan for the reminder on Loren Adler COIs.

#MedTwitter this is important. 👇

So let’s talk this through:

@change_hc, the largest healthcare payment system in the US (owned by United UnitedHealthcare) has a ransomware attack that shuts them down for 4 weeks and counting.

Meanwhile, this means physician practices aren’t getting any payments, losing millions of…

Good thing doctors can’t self refer b/c blah blah self interest, but $372,000,000,000 a year $UNH can buy a vertical monopoly & self-refer away w/ impunity

The cost to American taxpayers? Over $80B ANNUALLY. We can’t keep propping up insurers while cutting pay to physicians annually. Take the money from the hands of insurers and put it in the hands of the doctors, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, physical therapists, and…

This is why non employed doctors are getting crushed.
My surgeon was paid $456 for an hour+ long robotic abdominal procedure. And if you knew the anatomy, risks, training needed, etc… is just an absurdly low sum of $.
Stop telling me it’s the doctors fees.
And. He didn’t…

True story: I had one if not the MOST successful bariatric, general, and acute care surgery practices in Connecticut 15 years ago. One day my accountant and lawyer walked in the room for a meeting in the lobby of my office which I owned along with part of a surgical center. They…

OK let me give that a shot...

You operate a locally farmed artisan hamburger shop. You source your meat locally and cater to your customers needs. However, many of those customers have government sponsored 'food insurance,' since nobody should be deprived of sustenance because…

There are no good reasons for 80% of physicians to be employed.

🚨 He writes, 'If legislators put this provision into the final state #budget , then 5m Managed Medicaid beneficiaries will lose access' to care...

...And it 'would enshrine #Medicaid #inequity at a time when an increasing number of NYers are enrolling in these plans.'

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Our President Christopher Sheeron's latest op-ed is out this morning in EMPIRE REPORT.

He explores a seemingly small provision related to #ManagedMedicaid #patients in Governor Kathy Hochul's #budget proposal that's been flying under the radar.

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empirereportnewyork.com/state-budget-p…

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In the US, massive consolidated health systems are the norm. However, just 3 yrs into his career as an orthopedic surgeon, Daniel Choi saw the need for an alternative and founded a new independent practice, @spinemedli.

Congrats to 2023 SpineLine 20 Under 40 winner, Dan Choi, MD, FAAOS!

The Justice Department has launched an antitrust case against UnitedHealth, owner of the biggest health insurer in the U.S. and Optum health-services.

UnitedHealth had $372 billion in revenue last year. Its insurance arm covers 53 million people, and Optum has 90,000 doctors.

Happy to continue to shine the light on inadequate payment in the Medicare fee schedule for physicians. Every other aspect of healthcare gets a pay increase that reflects inflation. Physicians, midlevels, counselors, and physical therapists instead get cut every year. It’s long…

It’s time to call out UnitedHealthcare for simply awful peer-to-peer. A “peer” did not approve sinus surgery for this patient with chronic sinusitis and nasal polyposis. (And OSA, can’t use his CPAP). Unacceptable. Clearly their process is flawed. (Shared w/permission)

Dan Choi, MD, FAAOS My wife just died of lung cancer, and I can't overstate just how lucky we were that she was on traditional Medicare.

Statement after statement from the hospital showing that Medicare had covered everything.