Husband. Father. Physician. Small business owner. Kansas Medical Society President 2024-2025.
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Wow Kansas catching a stray here. I do think it is true that Kansas has more hospitals (currently 126) per population (3M) than any other state.
It’s 2075. There is only one hospital in the entire country. It is 8 square miles in the middle of Kansas and owned by United Healthcare. Premiums are $47,000 per month. The only medications left are Ozempic and boner pills. Life expectancy is 38.
Government: “I can’t believe doctors did this to us.”
Yikes! We need hospitals but we also need a health care system that works to keep people healthy and out of hospital.
Hospitals account for 40% of the recent growth in national health spending.
kff.org/health-costs/hospita…
For Medicare to be cost contained MSSP programs need to expand. watermark02.silverchair.com/…
Aron Fast, MD | Partners in Family Care retweeted
3A State Champions! Congratulations to the team and Coach Peters!
ALT high
I was beginning to lose faith in AI, but then @openevidence stepped in to restore my faith.
I hope all Kansas Physicians are aware how to contest coverage decisions for commercial insurance: insurance.ks.gov/documents/d…
This is a BIG deal for patients that need it.
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I’ve seen this map several times in the past few days, and I admit it is hard to believe that it is real. People are living longer and with more complicated illness. Hard to say if rising employment in healthcare is sustainable or even good. It is what it is.
Getting really specific with my medical practice, this feels like a family medicine clinic day where I end up spending a lot of my time in the “things I do” section returning faxes, doing prior authorization requests, filling out return to work forms etc.
If only physicians were on a level playing field…I feel like I’m always walking uphill.
Aron Fast, MD | Partners in Family Care retweeted
32/ The math's a little complicated, so we asked the actuaries at Milliman what would happen if ACOs could improve RA by 1% in 2025 (scenario 1)
Over 5 years,
MSSP payouts would go up by $2B (10%)
MA expenditures would decrease by $11B (0.2%)
Maybe ACOs should have more tools!
I support site neutral payments, too.
An unusual group of ideological allies — Obama HHS secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Trump HHS secretary Alex Azar, Paragon’s @brian_blase, Brookings’ @LorenAdler, etc — all agree: Medicare should start paying the same rate for the same service.
Son: Dad, why is health care so complicated?
Dad: ftc.gov/reports/pharmacy-ben…
Some of this @FTC report is redacted. This figure, however, is not.
