Health economics; Health services research; Health disparities; Pets; Cricket; North Carolina; Massachusetts; India; @AmreshHanchate@sciences.social

Winston Salem, NC
Joined December 2014
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Can a rural health program improve likelihood of rural patients receiving cancer surgery at Commission on Cancer accredited hospitals? Read about this analysis from the University of Pittsburg published this week in Medical Care ovid.com/10.1097/MLR.0000000…
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We lack comprehensive, high-quality, patient-centered care for dually eligible individuals. In today's @TheHillOpinion I argue that we can and must do better. And there is no better time--w/ remarkable consensus across the country and the aisle that we should. Read more below
"It’s time to end the Medicare-Medicaid merry-go-round" (@TheHillOpinion) trib.al/3lwoN6m
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India's greatest cartoonist RK Laxman was born in Mysore. Like all cartoonists, he wasn't afraid to take on the establishment. Here is a thread on some of his epic cartoons over the years ranging from Pandit Nehru to Sachin Tendulkar! A Thread 🧵
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Millions of kids rely on #WIC for access to healthy food. Congress must act now to fully #FundWIC and all ensure families have access to the resources they need to thrive. Take Action: bit.ly/WICStrong @MomsRising @ncchild
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AHRQ funding saves lives, creates essential data, and funds critical research infrastructure, all for a tiny sliver of the HHS/NIH budget
The House's Labor HHS appropriations bill released yesterday would eliminate AHRQ entirely and cut funding across health agencies, like ARPA-H, NIH, CDC, and HRSA. It would decimate access to high-quality, patient-centered care and research. Read @DrSimpsonHSR's statement:
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Based on 5-year follow-up covering over half of national Hispanic and Black population. Suggests that coverage expansion may not lead to increased ED use.
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Study to test a pharmacy liaison - patient navigator program to address #sdoh. As we are building this on the fly, important to publish studies not showing major impact. Need to better understand what population will benefit from higher touch interventions the most. @SIREN_UCSF
Happy to see our publication in @JAMANetworkOpen Important to publish negative trials @pabloandresbui A Pharmacy Liaison–Patient Navigation Intervention to Reduce Inpatient and Emergency Department... - goo.gl/scholar/VKLxXL #ScholarAlerts
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1/ Medical Debt- a holiday story A few years ago, I found myself poring over a printout of ED frequent fliers with a PCP in Mississippi. The office manager knew why they were going to the ED. “They’re not going to show their faces here. They all owe us money.”
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Vox.com: 2022’s most interesting health care research papers, according to the experts. vox.com/policy-and-politics/…
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Excellent study
Is this patient having a heart attack? After 10+ years in the ER, it’s still an agonizing question for me I turned the angst into a long paper with @m_sendhil in @QJEHarvard—doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjab046 Tl;dr—machine learning can have *huge* benefit, and help fix docs' errors 🧵
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For the ACA Anniversary, ASPE is releasing a new Briefing Book “The Affordable Care Act & Its Accomplishments.” Highlights & stats from 2 dozen reports over the past year – Marketplace, Medicaid, preventive care, and more. #ThxACA aspe.hhs.gov/reports/aca-acc…
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We used state discharge + census (ACS) data (2010-2017) covering 63% national population. Among Medicaid-covered + uninsured population, expansion associated with 31.6% annual increase in bariatric surgery rate among White population.
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Prior evidence points to higher need and willingness for surgery among minority low-income surgery-eligible patients. Are referral hesitation, surgical evaluation and preapproval process excluding more minority eligible patients?
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