Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP

Rural Physician. Daddy of Girls. Patient and Physician Advocate. Tweets my own. Not Medical Advice.

[Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP @GentryMD]

“Healthcare’s administrative burden did not arrive fully formed, roaring across the landscape.

It accumulated quietly—policy by policy, form by form, requirement by requirement—until the atmosphere was primed for a fire.

And once lit, it spread faster than anyone was willing, or able, to contain it.”

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[Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP @GentryMD]

@pgipe @KrutikaKuppalli That’s a bad look. 👀

It’s indefensible.

[Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP @GentryMD]

@pgipe @txsportsdoc I am surprised that the docs agreed to that. Every handoff is another hole in the cheese.

I like seeing my own hospital patients, But I realize that isn’t practical these days in large systems.

[Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP @GentryMD]

@alexmd2 @sallypipes Medicare for all is up when the pendulum swings back.

Monopolies are bad. More forms, less care. Think VA.

[Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP @GentryMD]

@eyorrickd @DrDiGiorgio

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Insurance claims denial letters are starting to sound like break-up texts:
It's not you, it's us. We just don't find this treatment medically necessary right now.

(TBH it's usually more like... It's not you and it's not us... It's your doctor. It's all her fault.)

[Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP @GentryMD]

@mcuban Ouch. 😓

Ai has definitely made me smarter…. it isn’t always right…. But it’s a great place to start

[Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP @GentryMD]

Ai-Generated content is really annoying.

2 and 3 word sentences
quietly
Not ___, but ____
Vibes
overuse of adjectives and adverbs

It's really easy to spot, and it's not good writing.

The irony is that some champion AI as "efficient prose."

If so, I don't like efficient prose. I like Welty and even Grisham.... but don't give me AI to read seriously.

[Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP @GentryMD]

@PedsGeekMD Why would he study anything when he purports to already know the outcome?

[Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP @GentryMD]

@CoveragePending

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“paying their own pharmacies up to 16,000% more than others”

Really… wow. Tell me again why doctors can’t own hospitals…

[Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP @GentryMD]

@DefiantLs overstated nonsense.

[Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP @GentryMD]

Most people cannot name even 1 past Secretary of HHS.

That's the problem....

RFK Jr. is a consequence.... not the root cause. :)

[Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP @GentryMD]

@DrDiGiorgio It's a mess, man.

I think it was last year that a large hospital system advertised during the Super Bowl.

Remember? Terrible look.

[Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP @GentryMD]

@WSJopinion I skimmed the report when it came out a few weeks ago... and wasn't shocked.

But I'm also not privy to the power-play in Washington either between these groups.

[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

Nothing defeats common sense faster than dogma

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Insurance companies are now denying claims faster than patients are being triaged in the ER.

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[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

Want to know why https://t.co/39PNLwYH8U doesn't have more brands?

With a few exceptions (already has a generic, not on formularies, soon to have a generic), CPD , and every pass through smaller PBM , can't buy branded meds that have a rebate, at a competitive price.

No one is asking for rebates equal to the big 3 PBMs.

We can't even get a " walk in off the street price." We actually had one brand say in a meeting they would give us a "walk in off the street price", then all the sudden they couldn't

I asked the CEO of a best selling branded med how many lives we would need to have covered before they would sell to the GPO we created, or to us in any manner, he said "half".

They couldn't sell to us until we covered half the lives the big 3 cover. He would lose placement on formulary tiers merely for offering us rebates. He couldn't afford to do business with us

This is not an efficient market. The big PBMs have threatened brands with loss of formulary positioning for their entire portfolios

This is why brand pricing continues to be high for employers

@PamBondi @AFergusonFTC

[Dustin Gentry, MD, FAAFP @GentryMD]

I don't care who you are... that's funny.

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I don't know where they found it... but they found it... and it's back, baby!