Sukruth Shashikumar

Fellow @ColumbiaCardio via @BrighamMedRes @washumedicine.

[Sukruth Shashikumar @_sukruth]

📣Was the latest policy change to the controversial Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program associated with an improvement in equity?

In @Health_Affairs with RJ Waken, @RahulAggarwalMD, and ⭐️ mentors @kejoynt @rkwadhera
Here: https://t.co/3aUbwLet4u
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[Brigham and Women's Medicine Residents @BrighamMedRes]

Congratulations to our amazing seniors on spectacular match! 🌟 We are so proud of you & can’t wait to watch you thrive next year!

[Columbia Cardiology Fellows @ColumbiaCardio]

It’s a match! We’re so proud to welcome the newest members of the Columbia cardiology family

[Brigham and Women's Medicine Residents @BrighamMedRes]

So excited for this all-star intern crew to join us in June!! Huge congratulations on a fantastic and well-deserved #match2025! 🎉

[Rishi Wadhera, MD MPP @rkwadhera]

Very proud of our health policy research team who will be presenting impactful work at the Academy Health Annual Meeting in Baltimore this weekend, including 5 simultaneous publications!

Please swing by and check out this fantastic group of trainees' research👇 #ARM2024

[Zarin Rahman, MD @ZarinIRahman]

Somehow a year flew by and I finished intern year! I feel like I’ve learned so much yet know absolutely nothing. Anxious (but also excited!) to be a PGY-2, looking forward to working with the new interns soon, and so glad to have my co-interns by my side 💙

[JAMA Internal Medicine @JAMAInternalMed]

In this national cross-sectional study of privately insured US families, inflation-adjusted health care spending increased from 2007 to 2019, largely owing to increasing contributions to premiums. @_sukruth @kejoynt @rkwadhera https://t.co/BtbuLxmGZT

[Health Affairs @Health_Affairs]

Physician group practices accrued large bonuses under Medicare’s bundled payment model. @_sukruth of @BrighamMedRes, @Andy_Ryan_dydx of @Brown_SPH + coauthors find BPCI-A participants accrued $421 million in incentives, 2018-20. Read the full article: https://t.co/latPhT9UWR

[John Mandrola, MD @drjohnm]

Gosh. Look not at the absolute but relative medical costs in low vs high income families.

Our wealth transfer healthcare system is especially bad b/c it most harms those who make less.

Important data 👇🏻👇🏻

[Mike Thompson @MikeTPhD]

There is a lot of chatter about OOP spending as a financial burden for lower income individuals (it is), but there isnt enough chatter about the burden of rising premiums.

This great study by @_sukruth @kejoynt and @rkwadhera puts a spotlight on this issue. 👏👏

[Rishi Wadhera, MD MPP @rkwadhera]

Our new @JAMAInternalMed study led by @_sukruth evaluates changes in the financial burden of health care among privately insured US families from 2007-2019

We find a worsening crisis of affordability among privately insured families with low incomes
https://t.co/sOK3UPlhRa

[Jose Figueroa, MD, MPH @joefigs2]

It’s that great time of year when we find out about the next generation of MDs joining us at @BrighamWomens!

Welcome to the incredible new @BrighamMedRes Intern Class of 2024!

Amazing to see that 21% from URIM backgrounds! @Brigham_DI

[Andrew Ryan @Andy_Ryan_dydx]

New website just dropped:

https://t.co/WoCbUe3TO5

These drawings are the best part IMO.

@efusebrown @cyruskosar @CM_Whaley @ysingh_hopkins @ambilinski @instrumenthull @djmeyers2

[Sukruth Shashikumar @_sukruth]

@gcfmd @CircAHA @kejoynt @BrighamResearch @CAHSPER_IPH @CMSGov Thank you @gcfmd !

It also was not associated with substantial changes in basically anything (besides an increase in Medicare spending to fund the program) 😕

@Andy_Ryan_dydx

https://t.co/6vGhZRPegT

https://t.co/bjTwe9JEvu

[Sukruth Shashikumar @_sukruth]

CMS is investing $ billions in bundled payments to fix rising spending, incl. for🫀disease

🚨But today in @CircAHA, we find bundled payments are NOT a/w⬇️spending, usage,🏥,or☠️for cardiac events or procedures

Time for other approaches to⬇️CVD spending?

https://t.co/gfeeUJ25W2

[Circulation @CircAHA]

#Medicare #bundledpayments aiming to promote more efficient care, did not incentivize lower spending or higher quality for cardiovascular events or procedures highlighting need for other approaches @_sukruth @kejoynt @BrighamResearch @CAHSPER_IPH https://t.co/XG7lr8Pq22

[Rishi Wadhera, MD MPP @rkwadhera]

This is an editorial to a fantastic study by @_sukruth @kejoynt and colleagues evaluating whether bundled payments have impacted spending, quality, and outcomes for cardiovascular conditions and procedures.
https://t.co/QoFZGpdjU6

[Rishi Wadhera, MD MPP @rkwadhera]

In @CircAHA, I discuss value-based payment reform in #cardiology

What have learned over the past decade? Where do we go next? And imp. of recognizing that we may need to spend more - not less - to improve health in populations w/ social risk factors. https://t.co/Xqdmlpdsbd

[Sukruth Shashikumar @_sukruth]

🙏🏽 grateful to the inimitable @kejoynt and Drs. Zheng, Orav, and Epstein for an all-star team
✍🏽and many thanks to @rkwadhera for his thought-provoking editorial on our work and the future of value-based payment for cardiovascular care: https://t.co/y1t7MSrqAu

[Andrew Ryan @Andy_Ryan_dydx]

In a new paper in @Health_Affairs, we found that favorable selection in Medicare Advantage inflated benchmarks and resulted in billions in excess payments to Medicare Advantage plans.

https://t.co/JVIDT8KQZd

Here’s the deal

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[Health Affairs @Health_Affairs]

In their new Forefront article, Andrew Ryan, @jbuxbaum86, @_sukruth, + @economicsRx from @BrownUniversity, @harvardmed, @BrighamWomens, + @UMich discuss how @CMSGov signaled an interest in reforming episode-based payment in traditional Medicare. https://t.co/ArVqkvd5CS