Ryan Kandrack

Leading growth analytics @AledadeACO. Healthcare economist. PhD from @UNC. Formerly @RANDCorporation & @UPMCHealthPlan. Yinzer. Opinions=mine.

[Ryan Kandrack @RyanKandrack]

@godofprompt GEMINI

[Ryan Kandrack @RyanKandrack]

@godofprompt Claude

[Travis Broome @Travis_Broome]

Excited to announce the Aledade Policy Institute. Long way from 2015 when the policy team was half of my time while I also ran an ACO while doing my best impression of a data analyst, compliance officer, contract negotiator, and network developer. https://t.co/v07ghe60e3

[Farzad Mostashari @Farzad_MD]

10 years ago, @AledadeACO was founded w a vision to do good for patients, for practices and for society (We believed that mission would also make us a great place to work for purpose-driven ppl)

I'm excited to share our 1st Public Benefit Report!

https://t.co/wZrsskF7v5

[Ryan Kandrack @RyanKandrack]

@bjdickmayhew Congrats, Dave!!

[Health Affairs @Health_Affairs]

In their new Forefront article, Gui Woolston and Amy Finkelstein of @AledadeACO and @MIT call on Medicaid programs across the country to take advantage of opportunities to pursue test-and-learn approaches through randomized evaluations. https://t.co/6R4qTPJrkY

[Sarah Miller @smilleralert]

It's well known that lower income people tend to suffer much worse health. Is poverty at the heart of this disparity, and, if so, could a large cash transfer help close this gap? We examine an RCT that provided 1000 low income participants $1000/month for 3 years. We find…

[Ziad Obermeyer @oziadias]

Ever wonder why your insurer charges a copay for statins (and other high-value meds)?

Don’t they want to prevent heart attacks, strokes, etc?

Copays never made sense to me.

In this new paper in @QJEHarvard, we show copays kill. 🧵

https://t.co/3PHeckLiZM

[Farzad Mostashari @Farzad_MD]

1/ If you wanted to craft a @CMSinnovates model with the best chance of improving care and reducing cost, this would be it.

CMS nails it with the ACO PC Flex Mode

a 🧵

[Farzad Mostashari @Farzad_MD]

1/ The Change Healthcare cyber attacks have created perilous liquidity challenges for a substantial portion of US medical practices

This is not fine

We @AledadeACO are going to do whatever we can to help our affected partner practices- announcing $100M in advance payments today

[Ryan Kandrack @RyanKandrack]

@NateApathy @UMDPublicHealth Congratulations!!

[Sean Cavanaugh @dc_cavanaugh]

CMS is reviewing quality measures in its important Universal Measures initiative. In this article, we identify MA Star measures that should be retired to make quality measurement more consistent and meaningful across programs.

https://t.co/V2aT7MNqW2

[Yashaswini Singh, PhD @ysingh_phd]

Who owns your doctor’s office? In our op-ed for @thehill, @CM_Whaley and I discuss what’s
driving doctors to sell independent practices to corporate investors like private equity. We offer paths forward.

[The Review of Economics and Statistics (REStat) @restatjournal]

A hospital mega-merger failed to produce benefits even as practices inside the organizations changed. Just Accepted by Martin Gaynor, Adam Sacarny @asacarny, Raffaella Sadun @raffasadun, Chad Syverson @ChadSyverson, and Shruthi Venkatesh @svenkatesh382. https://t.co/OfAHNBaV6n

[Ryan Kandrack @RyanKandrack]

Question for R users and #econtwitter -- Is there an R equivalent to Stata's teffects especially for IPWRA?

[Farzad Mostashari @Farzad_MD]

1/ Final rule for Physician Fee Schedule is out.

let's see how the Medicare Shared Savings Program provisions played out compared to the proposed rule.

(tl;dr mostly as proposed- incremental improvements to the nation's most mature, and most successful value based program)

[Ishani Ganguli MD, MPH @IshaniG]

1) Our new study, out last week @bmj_latest, tackles racial disparities in low-value care - services that offer patients little to no benefit yet can cause both direct and cascading harms and divert resources from needed care. (1)🧵👇

[Ryan Kandrack @RyanKandrack]

@MonicaOReillyJ1 @AAN_Nursing @WeederSusa5775 @LusinePoghosy10 @BC_CSON @AANP_NEWS @nnpenetwork @MCNPtweets Congratulations!!!

[Peter Hull @instrumenthull]

I have a new paper w/Ivan Badinski, Amy Finkelstein, & Matt Gentzkow!

We use a "movers" design to study the role of physician practice intensity for well-documented geographic variation in healthcare spending

Punchline? Doctor sorting matters a lot!

https://t.co/QNyeoZdYQg

[Sachin H. Jain, MD, MBA @sacjai]

In my latest @forbeshealth blog, I share why every healthcare organization should employ (or partner with) health services researchers.

Cc: @DrSimpsonHSR @AmolNavathe @ChrisWorsham @AnupamBJena

https://t.co/SXFJrbPojA