Phillip Balfanz, MD

Father, husband, brother, son, child adolescent and adult #psychiatrist, #Texan, #physician.

[Dr Erik Messamore @ErikMessamoreMD]

The National Center for PTSD offers a variety of free, secure mobile apps designed to provide education, coping tools, mindfulness exercises, symptom tracking, and support for people living with PTSD and their loved ones.

[Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center @TTUHSC]

Happy Father’s Day from #TTUHSC!

[NAMI Texas @NAMITexas]

Midweek Reminder 💙✨

#mentalhealth #selflove #youaremorethanenough #MentalWellness #NAMITexas

[Bradford Holland MD MBA FACS @DrBradHolland]

This is important to read…

[Tom Oliverson, M.D. @TomOliverson]

Just wow. I am so sorry for your loss. This makes me so angry, they clearly failed you and your wife.

[Nisha Patel, MD MS, Dipl of ABOM, CCMS @DrPlantel]

My mom was stopped and harassed by masked ICE agents while shopping at an outlet mall in Texas. Because she has an accent, they assumed she spoke Spanish and started talking to her in Spanish. When she said she doesn’t speak Spanish, they began demanding where she was “from,” rapidly listing countries without even giving her a chance to respond.

My mom told them she’s been in this country longer than some of them have been alive. She was only allowed to leave after showing a photo of her U.S. passport on her phone.

She is a U.S. citizen. She has lived in this country for 47 years. If you think this is just about “sending criminals back,” you are dead wrong.

[Phillip Balfanz, MD @PhillipBalfanz]

@JonathanShedler Thank you for this perspective. I am thinking through how I relate to patients and how they often expect me to relate when we first meet and how we shift between I-it and I-thou. I am also thankful for my own therapy in this frame.

[Facts About Texas @FactsAboutTexas]

Texas Strong

[Phillip Balfanz, MD @PhillipBalfanz]

@JonathanShedler In my role as a psychiatrist, I try to express this to my patients and students, including the limited scientific validity. I try to differentiate who needs medical intervention, and we sometimes catch important physical conditions.

[Phillip Balfanz, MD @PhillipBalfanz]

Having another great experience at #TMA's TexMed.
@texmed @FedTXPsych

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

"There are no Amish with autism"

There are

"Vaccines aren't tested against placebo"

They are

"MMR has never been studied as a possible cause of autism"

It has. It's not the cause.

I apparently need to say this stuff over and over and over and over again.

And again.

[Federation of Texas Psychiatry @FedTXPsych]

On March 4, 2025, the Federation of Texas Psychiatry convened in Austin for Capitol Day to advocate for legislative priorities affecting psychiatry. #fedtxpsych #txlege #Texas #Psychiatry #advocacy

[Greg Reybold @Greg_Reybold]

In opposing 9096, PBMs claim mailorder pharmacies save $$. @_APCI reviewed Fed plan with req mail order after 2 fills. The PBM mailorder pharmacy was more expensive than the independent pharmacy on 79 of 100 most commonly prescribed drugs. @TruthRX

https://t.co/kkcujGNkP5

[Jeremy Counts @HokiePharmacist]

Pharmacists, wear a black lab coat to protest PBM abuse and demand that we pass The Pharmacists Fight Back Act HR 9096! For patients, for pharmacies, for healthcare!

#PBMBlackout #9096OrDie #PharmacistsFightBack #pharmacy #PBM #healthcarereform #twitteRx

[Federation of Texas Psychiatry @FedTXPsych]

This World Mental Health Day, Invest in Your Future: Attend TSPP's 68th Annual Convention! Register Now: https://t.co/KoB7IaXapo
#WorldMentalHealthDay #txpsych #fedtxpsych #TSPP #TSPP2024 #mentalhealth #psychiatry #texaspsychiatry #conference #CME #texas #tx #galveston #register

[Real Doc Speaks @realdocspeaks]

In 2023, the US spent over $722 Billion on prescription drugs. We pay 278 percent of what other countries pay.

The total revenue for the three largest Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) in 2023 was $ 409.3 Billion!

We are paying over $400 Billion to middlemen who claim to save us money!!!

If you are saving us money, why are we overpaying for prescription drugs?

Why does a middleman need 57% of the cost of the product?

Vanguard charges 0.03 to manage the Total Stock Market ETF, VTI.

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

The future for American 🇺🇸 patients is even more big corporate monopolized machines siphoning 💰from their pockets, especially those with chronic disease, should @linakhanFTC be removed as @FTC chair.
She’s been a bright spot of light ☀️ in exposing BIG #PBM #GPO private equity and vertical and horizontal integration.

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

‘Spread pricing’ is when the #PBM receives 💰 from a 3rd party, in this case, Medicaid, and decides to keep a chunk of it for themselves.
I don’t call spread pricing. I call it thievery
It

Who ARE these people who would argue against the numbers in an audit? That’s crazy talk.

Pa owes a big thank you to @PAAuditor for exposing this

https://t.co/0E2vulS5P0
@A_Ciaccia @Free2CareHC @AMACAction @matthewstoller @FTC

[Pharm Biz Guy @pharm_biz]

The politicians always make a mockery of these hearings but the Novo CEO is correct

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

.@SenBillCassidy 🎯 in his comment.
Inflation Reduction Act is set to cause spike in medicare premiums.
Biden Harris plan to raid Medicare Trust fund and pay off insurance companies to cover it up without congressional approval. I believe it's about $5 billion.
Full piece in @CNN
@AMACforAmerica https://t.co/j0KNAWjVXB