Julie Barnes

Health policy consultant - very interested in digital health lately. Recovering attorney, proud dog Mommy to Maverick, love my regular children too.

[Julie Barnes @JBarnesHealth]

@NCQA Health Innovation Summit. @PeggyNCQA said “what we’re doing to reinvent healthcare is hard but people who do health care quality know how to do hard.”

[Julie Barnes @JBarnesHealth]

Maverick's Update focuses on FDA's software-as-medical-device guidance. And Jack Jack of the Incredibles. Totally related. https://t.co/GYn4wP5oTH

[Julie Barnes @JBarnesHealth]

@jenhab Congrats Jen!! Amazing news

[Julie Barnes @JBarnesHealth]

Who played the Queen best, Helen Mirren or Claire Foy? That and what the Queen would say about America's health data privacy issues in the latest Maverick's Update. https://t.co/dIB7NIt6Tp

[Julie Barnes @JBarnesHealth]

@stepville Love this, and if I lived in Montana I would do the same. About the horse and the wine. I don't have a husband to be annoyed by!

[Ceci Connolly @CeciConnolly]

The #MedicareAdvantage program is a huge success story, but that doesn’t mean we can’t keep improving it. That’s why we are pleased to offer recommendations to foster competition, affordability, equity, transparency and quality here: https://t.co/rgr6HPku6U @_ACHP @CMSgovPress

[Michael Chernew @Michael_Chernew]

Finally opened 1 fee schedule from 1 insurer. It can be processed, but without processing, its useless. BTW, did I mention 1 fee schedule from 1 insurer. We are working in getting terabytes (10) of storage. Will it be enough?

[David Nather @DavidNather]

Six years ago: "So what's this smart brevity thing supposed to look like?" "I dunno."

"Well what are we going to call the company?" "I dunno."

Today:

https://t.co/0VBqvHXjaX

[Julie Barnes @JBarnesHealth]

Maverick Health Policy was delighted to feature @DrJenLee as our guest speaker today and WOW is she an impressive lady. The Medicaid expansion story is a particularly good one.

[Ceci Connolly @CeciConnolly]

Thanks in part to the amazing work of our new CMO @DrJenLee @_ACHP

[Julie Barnes @JBarnesHealth]

@RealRonHoward and @SabrinaCorlette are so good at what they do. The latest Maverick Update explains our hope that @millimanhealth and @TurquoiseHC are really good at what they said they would do together (spoiler alert: health care price transparency). https://t.co/0j2Nz6ej3D

[Ron Howard @RealRonHoward]

I had a blast on @colbertlateshow talking about my new movie @thirteenlives heroes Viggo Mortensen and Colin Farrell, along with sharing some family stories and even meeting James Taylor! @StephenAtHome @RealImagine @mgmstudios @primevideo #LSSC

[Julie Barnes @JBarnesHealth]

Heroes can both be clean-shaven and sport facial hair; it depends on whether you're talking about The Gray Man movie or the Endless Frontier Act that everyone is calling the Chips+ Act. See more here https://t.co/WwsAiA3yvW

[TechCrunch @TechCrunch]

The passage of the CHIPS Act could launch another US startup renaissance https://t.co/jrbSOja6UQ by @Haje

[Rep. Don Beyer @RepDonBeyer]

Today the House sent a transformational science bill to President Biden's desk.

The CHIPS and Science Act will create jobs, boost our economy, and put America on a more competitive path for years to come. It has the first NASA Authorization in five years. A BFD.

My statement:

[Julie Barnes @JBarnesHealth]

It took Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck 19 years to get it together, and it is taking at least that long to implement federal health information policy. Check out what we mean in the latest issue of Maverick's Update. https://t.co/MkUPsWALSu

[Julie Barnes @JBarnesHealth]

How we are able to see billions-year-old images from space is hard to understand, but fixing prior authorization processes is challenging too. Maverick's Update explains how only one of these things needs to take a billion years. https://t.co/7ojAw9cuP5

[Julie Barnes @JBarnesHealth]

Very helpful evidence to add to an already-strong argument for allowing more hospital care at home.

[Alliance of Community Health Plans (ACHP) @_ACHP]

NEW in @statnews: @CeciConnolly and @StephenParodiMD write about the remarkable outcomes of hospital-level care in the home. But this high-quality health care service will stall without action by Congress.

https://t.co/kGUVP7pPDt

[Julie Barnes @JBarnesHealth]

Today is about a particular U.S. Supreme Court decision, but the Court made quite a few interesting decisions this week -- we discuss in Maverick's Update, along with lighter notes about Best in Show and wronged French bulldogs. https://t.co/MgUFwhJy32

[Julie Barnes @JBarnesHealth]

1993 was a big year: Jurassic Park, Brady Bill, Clinton Health Care Security Act. 2022 may be a big year: Jurassic World: Dominion, possible gun legislation, possible data privacy legislation. Check out Maverick's Update for more. https://t.co/dbkinIiwy1

[Julie Barnes @JBarnesHealth]

@MichaelBagel @_ACHP She is impossibly happy! You must not be telling her about health policy issues. Good call.

[Julie Barnes @JBarnesHealth]

Apropos of the time we are in, the 4th season of Netflix's Stranger Things -- about kids, mental health, and monsters -- was released this week. We explore what that has to do with a telehealth legislative proposal in Maverick's Update. https://t.co/oWerJM1xx9