Adam E Block (The Charming Economist)

Health economist with 20 years' experience in government, managed care, hospitals & research. Clear, often counter-intuitive perspective to improve health care.

[Adam E Block (The Charming Economist) @AdamBHealthEcon]

Charm Economics is #hiring Charm Economics is a health economics practice based in NY, focused on providing ROI analytics for growing digital health startups. Charm Economics is 4 years old, with revenue and staff size doubling every 2 years.
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[New York Medical College @nymedcollege]

Congratulations to the School of Medicine Class of 2023! #NYMCgrad

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@YFeyman What do you mean “turns out”?

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@ericbkennedy Super condescending tweet! It implies that all of us 99% plus of the world that do not mask indoors do not care about others. There are tradeoffs to masking and implying otherwise is completely disingenuous.

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@AribaPay please help, I am AN11172091093 and I need to enroll in AribaPay but hit a dead end. I called four different numbers and nobody can help. I hope Twitter can help!

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@StuartBlitz @lexbyanyname Got the same one two years ago for my then six year old. Two years into piano lessons later we are both very happy.

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@DrJBhattacharya @joshrauh In March 2020 nobody knew the path this was going to take. It could have been 100x more virulent. We know the impact now but policy was dealing with uncertainty. That was the correct driver for spring 2020 closures. Uncertainty arguments dissipated by summer/fall 2020. Sorta.

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@StuartBlitz Three letters. R.O.I.

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@NWischoff @paramendra Happy for @charmeconomics to help with diligence. That is what we do!

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@StuartBlitz I would like to see some proof that it works. Meaning a receipt with a corporate discount code on it. Sounds like something that works in theory.

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@YFeyman Again spoken like an economist not a policy maker. I challenge you to run a Congressional campaign in a blue state and oppose the SALT deduction. Even my Congressman, Republican George Santos supports SALT. It was his first introduced bill.

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@StuartBlitz Airtrain from JFK does that. If you count Jamaica Queens as “the city”, which it is. If you don’t, you transfer to the LIRR which comes every five minutes and takes 20 min to either Penn Station or Grand Central, 13 miles. Newark is similarly easy. La Guardia is the outlier.

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@YFeyman Spoken like an economist. Except SALT helps blue states.

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@drmanejwala @healthcareandy Disagree there. There are higher cost providers who do not provide higher quality of care. If they can be excluded, the plan can price cheaper and provide the same quality. So I think network differentiation is an area where plans and optimizers can shine.

[Chiquita Brooks-LaSure @BrooksLaSureCMS]

Grateful to spend some time this afternoon talking w/ reporters from across the country about @POTUS proposal to keep Medicare alive for future generations and health care affordable for the millions of Americans who spent their whole lives paying in to Medicare every working day

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@physiciansguide @DrJenGunter The Covid vaccine would lead to herd immunity.

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@ntepper90 @modrnhealthcr Let me get my checkbook.

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@KrutikaAmin @JaredOrtaliza @cynthiaccox @jeanniebin @tricia_neuman @RRudowitz Thank you! For those of us who do ROI work, understanding margins by line of business is super helpful. You can look forward to many citations in my team’s proprietary work in the future.

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@PaulNWilliamz Obviously you did not see Idiocracy and the success of AI as a complete replacement for physician judgment.

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@dvasishtha True, contingent on that person having infinite hours per day.

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@physiciansguide @jonathanstea I like to think I’m cause.