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Senior Director, Strategy & Government Policy at Remedy Partners. I am a Medicare lawyer committed to the future of alternative payment models.
Sep 18, 2018 14 tweets 14 min read
@nealemahoney @afrakt @JonSkinner17 @UpshotNYT First of all, this is a remarkable example of DiD/RCT health care economics. Well done. @nealemahoney @afrakt @JonSkinner17 @UpshotNYT But I cannot support the claim that more health care policy analysis needs to be done through DiD methods. Equally so, I do not support RCT methods applied to health care payment demonstrations.
Sep 4, 2018 23 tweets 5 min read
What are physician-led ACOs doing differently than Health System ACOs? [thread] CMS released the 2017 MSSP results. While there will be thoughtful analyses of these results, I wanted to examine the multi-year trends in ACO performance. I also sought to understand the difference in performance between health system-led ACOs and physician-led ACOs. (1/n)