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Chris Childers
@cchildersmd
Father, Husband, and occasional Runner. Surgical Oncology Fellow @MDAndersonNews. @UCLASurgeryRes. MD/PhD focused on measuring and reducing health care costs.
Feb 7, 2019 • 19 tweets • 5 min read
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 Last August we published in @JAMA_current an analysis of the financial statements of Intuitive Surgical, the founders of the robotic surgical platform. Their 2018 financial statements were just released and they are fascinating.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/… 2/X
 First, why do we care about robotic surgery?
Many well done studies have questioned its clinical benefit, a few here:
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…
nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NE…
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…
Jan 8, 2019 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
This story has been getting a lot of attention, so I did some digging into SF general's financial statements. The situations described in this story are devastating, and nobody should go through them. But there is a bigger story... (1/x)
vox.com/policy-and-pol… 2/x
 In this story, several patients with private insurance were left with very large medical bills after visiting SF general. This is because SF general does not negotiate with private insurers for "in-network" prices, so private payers are stuck paying out of network prices.