Dr.KDBarton

Mom. Emergency Medicine and wound care physician. Advocating for patients and physicians trapped in the healthcare quagmire

[Take Medicine Back @TakeMedBack]

🚨Call to action🚨
If you are an EM Physician, find out who represents your state chapter in the ACEP council as well as any sections you belong to. Contact and tell them you support @RobertMcNamar12 for election of the BOD. Time is of the essence. Elections are 5p EST today

[Dr. Miller-Meeks @millermeeks]

Passed transparency PBM bill as IA state senator and working on this issue at federal level also.

[Dr.KDBarton @DrKBarton]

@KristinaRevay @mass_marion Heartbreaking and I hear things like this everyday. Maddening.

[Dr.KDBarton @DrKBarton]

My patients tell me they have to. And they hate it.

[Marion E Mass, M.D. #patientsfirst #scrubsnotsuits @mass_marion]

3. Patients DO NOT use BIG #PBMs + mail order for affordability and ease.
They use them because the BIG PBM are merged with the insurance and the mergers themselves leave patients with few choices and damaged goods. TY @CynthiaMcFadden @NBCNews https://t.co/XGFEZHLZhS

[Kristina Revay @KristinaRevay]

@DrKBarton @mass_marion It is awful and I am not treating my illness now because it is too frustrating! Often 5 trips to a pharmacy for a simple medication that is repeatedly denied. Mail order involves weeks of delays,when meds do arrive theyve been baking in the hot sun. Injections ruined, etc.

[Marion E Mass, M.D. #patientsfirst #scrubsnotsuits @mass_marion]

2. I am so glad to learn more about TRG healthcare
They help to create Mergers and consolidations
with places like @BeaumontHealth
Read more here: https://t.co/gdm0jLKj58

[Marion E Mass, M.D. #patientsfirst #scrubsnotsuits @mass_marion]

1. In today's op ed in @CourierTimes , The head of TRG healthcare tells us that #PBM provide better access at a lower price.
When you are done laughing, 🤣
read all his unsubstantiated claims here: https://t.co/tKgsglwTJ9

[Madelaine Feldman @MattieRheumMD]

@mass_marion @CourierTimes @EINPharmaNews @TedOkonCOA @BoesingLoretta @Free2CareHC @MarniOnHealth @PatientsRiseNow @RepBuddyCarter @SenBobCasey @ExposingPBMs Patients are not “electing” PBM as source for prescriptions they are being forced bc their cost would be higher or it won’t count towards their deductible if they don’t use the PBM over their local community pharmacy.

[Dr.KDBarton @DrKBarton]

I know this sounds good on the surface, but the potential for corruption/abuse of this power is incredibly concerning

[Jared J Wallen MD MBA @JJWUrology]

"How is it that families can pay $20,000 a year in insurance premiums and then are charged copays that are more than the costs of the medicines they need?" Tony Dale MD - Sedera #medtwitter
Sign up today for our free seminar on 9/1/21 via this link:
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[Mitchell Li MD @ApparentLiMD]

@amychomd When elephants fight, the grass suffers. Insurance and private equity backed CMGs are both in the wrong. Patients will suffer. And the Faustian bargain to side with PE will land us all as UHC employees under their PE wing, Optum soon.
https://t.co/pSpYTw6B5g

[Amy Cho, MD MBA @amychomd]

“United also had the ability to edit and suggest changes to the paper’s drafts, and executives were kept up to date on the researchers’ goals and progress, the emails show.”

Academics and journalists are the best lobbyists because they seem unbiased.

[Marion E Mass, M.D. #patientsfirst #scrubsnotsuits @mass_marion]

My recent Op Ed got the attention of @AARP HQ in Washington DC.

Here in rebuttal they state I am fueled by Big Pharma.

Let me be clear
I take no 💰 to advocate.
I am fueled by the need to create an affordable sustainable medical landscape.

[Marion E Mass, M.D. #patientsfirst #scrubsnotsuits @mass_marion]

TIME FOR SOME TRUTH BOMBS 💣
Thank you @POTUS for lifting #transparency in healthcare!
@AARP you represent your own selfish interests.
America deserves to know how your lobbying has caused destruction to America's Healthcare landscape.
#boycotAARP

https://t.co/9wqZH2mpS9

[Marion E Mass, M.D. #patientsfirst #scrubsnotsuits @mass_marion]

What’s wrong with Heathcare?
It “has been overtaken by a “healthcare cartel” of middlemen, who sponge off the system driving up costs while offering no value.”
Meet patient and physician advocate extraordinaire, Dr @notaproviderMD

https://t.co/iSJuYw2hDM

[Jamie Metzl @JamieMetzl]

.@DrTedros showing more courage by defending the integrity of @WHO & calling for a full investigation into pandemic origins than is being shown by nearly all of the WHO member states. #COVID19 https://t.co/GBNaQBR2nK

[Dr.KDBarton @DrKBarton]

Our Vizsla Puppies are 3 weeks today! Soooooo sweet and snuggly https://t.co/dvFcgPPSqW

[Marion E Mass, M.D. #patientsfirst #scrubsnotsuits @mass_marion]

https://t.co/NKFj7XcQ6O 🇺🇸, who do you trust to make the ground rules for a better system of health care?
... the million-dollar CEOs of the parasitic coalition?
...the politicians?
.. or a grassroots movement ?
@Free2CareHC @PPA_USA @somedocs @EpsilonTheory @PhyWorkTogether

[Dr.KDBarton @DrKBarton]

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[Dr.KDBarton @DrKBarton]

Northwest Arkansas friends:
Working to build my wound care/hyperbarics practice at Northwest Medical Center Bentonville. I recently healed multiple patients, so now have openings
Fax referrals 479-553-1969 or call the clinic 479-553-3100
2900 medical center parkway
Suite 140