Steven Denyer, MD

Hip/Knee Fellow @Harvardmed @Massgeneral. Orthopaedic Surgeon @LoyolaOrthoRes. Alumni @UICCOM & @UnivMiami

[Steven Denyer, MD @StevenDenyer]

@elonmusk @elonmusk give access to buy @SpaceX IPO shares on the new @TrumpAccounts for kids!

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Announcing TERAFAB: the next step towards becoming a galactic civilization https://t.co/xTA70LOU0e

[Steven Denyer, MD @StevenDenyer]

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[Steven Denyer, MD @StevenDenyer]

@elonmusk Looking forward to it. Hope we can have the option to add more than 2 hands!

[Arthroplasty Today @ArthroToday]

Do traditional PROMs miss objective balance metrics?

This study used wearables and found patients were more stable after THA vs TKA.

@Sean_Ryan_MD @CoryCalendineMD @StevenDenyer

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[Steven Denyer, MD @StevenDenyer]

@elonmusk @neuralink Robots are here to stay. But we still use fax machines and whiteboards, and we can’t see X-rays done at another hospital in the same city in real time.

[Steven Denyer, MD @StevenDenyer]

@cb_doge @elonmusk I’ll help attach them. 🦾🦾🦿🦿

[Steven Denyer, MD @StevenDenyer]

@Ortho_Deck Exactly, we need to streamline the administration side—cut the bureaucracy and boost efficiency to focus on what really matters!!

[Steven Denyer, MD @StevenDenyer]

This is why healthcare in the USA is so expensive. With enabling technologies we can increase efficiency and eliminate waste. #healthcare

[John P Erwin III MD MBA MACC (#BigPoppy ) @HeartOTXHeartMD]

Worth posting again.

“Healthcare”

[Dutch Rojas @DutchRojas]

If you’ve stepped foot into the OR,
You’ve completed medical school.
You’ve finished your internship.
You’ve survived residency.
You’ve trained. You’ve sacrificed. You’ve earned it.

And yet—you’re the only professional in America who’s not allowed to own a hospital.

Not a banker.
Not a politician.
Not an insurance executive.
Not a private equity guy.
Not even a convicted felon.

They can all own hospitals.

But not you, the physicians who saves lives in them.

Welcome to healthcare policy in America, where logic is optional and rent-seeking is law.

End the ban.
Repeal Section 6001.
Restore physician ownership.

#PhysicianLed #Repeal6001
#LetDoctorsLead #IndependentMedicine

[Dutch Rojas @DutchRojas]

A physician I know performed a complex surgery at a hospital.

Health System billed: $78,000
Health System Paid: $40,000
Physician Reimbursement: $1,100

Health Systems take the lion’s share.
Physicians take the hit.

No physician wants to be employed.
#healthcare

[Dan Choi, MD, FAAOS @drdanchoi]

To bring down Medicare and Medicaid spend, Bring Back Private Practice in America

Obamacare destroyed private practice in America reducing choice and competition. What you ended up is a consolidated system with few players and high high prices. Bring back private practice, let them compete fairly against health systems and private insurers to overall decrease cost of care.

[SpaceXAI @SpaceXAI]

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[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Watch Starship's fifth flight test https://t.co/LVrCnTv797

[Dr. Glaucomflecken @DGlaucomflecken]

I’m hearing so many people cite conflict of interest as the reason physicians shouldn’t own hospitals. This also happens to be the main strategy the American Hospital Association used to lobby Congress to ban POHs in the Affordable Care Act, paving the way for the consolidated corporate nightmare we enjoy today.

The conflict of interest argument is absurd in a for profit healthcare system. Hospitals force their employed physicians to refer to other specialists within their own hospital system. Physicians recommend surgery then do the surgery themselves collecting both a clinic fee and a surgery fee. Optum forces patients to see their doctors, use their pharmacies, and be admitted to their own hospitals. If there is profit to be made in patient care, there will be a conflict of interest among the entities/people collecting that profit. The closest thing to a conflict of interest free system is one that is devoid of profit. Call me cynical, but that will not happen in the US.

So we can wring our hands about the potential corruption and malfeasance evil greedy doctors will inflict upon our great country if physicians owned hospitals, while ignoring the actual corruption and malfeasance already displayed by hospital corporations.

We can ignore data that shows POHs as a whole (~250 in the US, holdovers from pre-ACA times) have better outcomes at lower costs.

Or we can introduce some actual competition in the healthcare marketplace to give patients a chance for better care from people who actually got into this business to treat patients, care that is not dictated by a private equity company or insurance company.

Just give physicians a chance to show that we can do a better job. That’s all we’re asking. If we suck at it, we won’t get very far, right? Isn’t that what the free market is for?

Repeal the ban on physician owned hospital.

[NFL @NFL]

Everybody needs to listen to this speech from Tom Brady 🗣️ (via @Patriots)

[Steven Denyer, MD @StevenDenyer]

You can achieve anything you set your mind to, even if that means sending reusable rockets into space. @elonmusk

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Sorry it’s taken so long to make it happen, but we’re super close now

[Loyola Orthopaedic Residency @LoyolaOrthoRes]

Congrats to the Class of 2025 on their fellowship matches! 🐐

[The Masters @TheMasters]

Learn more about Scottie Scheffler, the two-time Masters champion who continues to make history. #themasters