Kevin Griffith

Professor of health policy w/ expertise in access to care, Medicaid, Veterans' health. Former @BUSPH_HLPM @DeptofDefense @USArmy (CIV) @AlumsPMF. Views my own.

[Kevin Griffith @AssumeNormality]

🚨New research in @Health_Affairs Scholar!

Arkansas had some of the nation's strictest Medicaid eligibility rules, and the highest rates of uninsurance among low-income adults.

What changed after their unique 2014 Medicaid expansion? 🧵

LINK: https://t.co/Nu9pYbCLzR

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Opened Google Scholar today and was immediately hit with “AI can now summarize academic articles.” Bro, it’s called an abstract and it already exists.

[Adam Gaffney @awgaffney]

... blood pressure elevation (SBP 140-145mmHg) were 15% **LESS** likely to have their BP medications uptitrated.

The consequence?

A significant increase in strokes in these patients —  5 more strokes per 1,000 patients!

For decades, many health economists have pushed ...

[Adam Gaffney @awgaffney]

Extraordinary study in JAMA IM confirms what many of us have warned against: "pay-for-performance" incentives in medicine reward "teaching to the test" with potentially harmful results

In this quasi-experimental study, incentivizing doctors to control blood pressure (BP)...

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[Kevin Griffith @AssumeNormality]

This story is really sweet. He was on GMA last week: https://t.co/9OrkJmTlst

[CBS Evening News with Tony Dokoupil @CBSEveningNews]

At the school talent show, 11-year-old Samuel didn’t just find his voice — he found his flock. The autistic student with Tourette syndrome can mimic 50 different birds, a talent that had gone unnoticed until that unforgettable performance. @SteveHartmanCBS is On the Road.

[Margot Sanger-Katz @sangerkatz]

This choice comes as a big surprise to states. As recently as last month, CMS was telling them in regular meetings that it would allow them to exclude people based on medical diagnoses alone. That's what Nebraska--already live with its requirement--is doing.

[Adrianna McIntyre (@adrianna.bsky.social) @onceuponA]

Was glad to have the chance to join @selenasd on All Things Considered yesterday to chat about the new work requirements regulation, which is will dial up paperwork — and, as a result, coverage losses — for some of the most vulnerable Medicaid enrollees

https://t.co/RRCI5fzgnN

[Kyle Siler (@kylesiler.bsky.social) @KyleSiler]

New article in @PNASNews:

We all know that ChatGPT loves to delve, bolster, leverage, encompass, showcase, underscore, et cetera. I analyzed full text of 7.3 million journal articles published 2020-2025, hunting for 228 words that spiked after ChatGPT launched in late 2022.

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

The Farm Bill -- passed by the House, now being considered in the Senate -- contains a measure that would ban states from banning horriffically abusive farming practices.

The cruelty is the point.

https://t.co/NzkOPNalQ3

[Dimitri @thedimitri]

What a time to be alive

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

App idea: Shazam but for the sound my car is making.

[Kevin Griffith @AssumeNormality]

.@onceuponA sharing new RCT evidence testing effects of work requirements for SNAP

Some enrollees get exemptions, others did not

Work requirements had very small effects on employment, but large effects on enrollment

Preview of what to expect in Medicaid next year #ARM26

[Timothy Layton @timothyjlayton]

As a journal editor and frequent reviewer, this resonates. Strongly.

[Paul Novosad @paulnovosad]

Authors can't be trusted to run their own robustness checks.

In 17 AER papers, only 12/211 robustness checks "fail" with p > 0.05 (white).

In robustness checks chosen by 3rd parties, almost *half* of them fail (blue).

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[Kevin Griffith @AssumeNormality]

Medicaid work requirements are projected to cause many workers to lose eligibility due to weekly fluctuations in the number of hours worked

New research by Paul Shafer, @THCallaghan, @bjdickmayhew at #ARM26

[Kevin Griffith @AssumeNormality]

Many Veterans use care outside the VA, and simple risk adjustment will miss a lot of comorbidities and outcomes

Predictive quality is notably improved when accounting for VA-purchased community care data, less so for Medicare/Medicaid!

New research at #ARM26 by @megan

[kai @ssvankai]

accidentally stumbled upon this crazy paper abstract

[Kevin Griffith @AssumeNormality]

So who's going to #ARM26?

[Jessica Riedl 🧀 🇺🇦 @JessicaBRiedl]

Seniors are already the wealthiest age group in America. Washington spends 6x as much on seniors as people under 25. So state and local govts moving in the same direction is totally absurd. Empty pandering to win a primary.

[Kelsey Piper @KelseyTuoc]

I hadn't been following the Gino vs Harvard drama once it became obvious Gino was guilty, but this from Harvard's latest filing is nuts. They imaged the laptop at the start of the investigation, so they caught her when she made a fake, backdated file with "data" from her research

[Rishi Wadhera, MD MPP @rkwadhera]

The Inflation Reduction Act was associated with a roughly 50% relative ⬇️ in cost-related medication nonadherence. Making drugs affordable helps people take them.

Important work led by @lucas_marinacci from our group.
https://t.co/M4ABjl8RfN