Aparna Baheti, MD

I’m just a regular gal who loves angiograms. #UVA #backtable #WIR #craghag

[Aparna Baheti, MD @bahetimd]

@TheRealDoctorOs @_backtable Okay I legit had too much fun this weekend guys. Yall got a great lab. Thanks for hosting!!!

[Aparna Baheti, MD @bahetimd]

@linemonkeymd

[Jessica Dobrinsky @jldobrinsky]

North Carolina’s Certificate of Need law is finally getting its day in court.

Eye surgeon Dr. Jay Singleton has spent years fighting to perform common eye surgeries in his own facility. But under state law, he must send patients to a nearby hospital—the only one with a CON.

Now, a three-judge panel will decide whether North Carolina’s CON law violates the state constitution’s bans on monopolies and exclusive privileges.

Dr. Singleton argues the CON system shields established hospitals from competition.

If he prevails, it could be a turning point for economic liberty in healthcare, restoring doctors’ ability to serve patients without first asking the state for permission. #endCON https://t.co/4xMywSthZV

[Aparna Baheti, MD @bahetimd]

I finally got one of my favorite people in the world to come on the show….only took 5 years of pestering! @UVARadiology @SIRspecialists

[BackTable Vascular and Interventional @_backtable]

A patient presents to the ER with hemoptysis. When is bronchial artery embolization (BAE) the right call, and what can you do to tip the odds of procedural success in your favor?

In this episode of the BackTable Podcast, interventional radiologist Dr. Alexander Lam of UCSF shares his approach to bronchial artery embolization with host Dr. Ally Baheti.

Full episode streaming now: https://t.co/lyrYNKl4or

#VI586 #BronchialArteryEmbolization #BronchialArtery #Hemoptysis #Tuberculosis #InterventionalRadiology #MultidisciplinaryCare #BackTable

[Aparna Baheti, MD @bahetimd]

Again, why being beholden to mpfs is NOT the path forward

[Chris Childers @cchildersmd]

This afternoon, @CMSGov finalized the 2026 Medicare Physician Fee schedule including the "efficiency adjustment". All non-time-based CPT codes (e.g, surgeries, procedures, radiology etc.) will have their wRVUs decreased by 2.5% starting January 1st.

https://t.co/dEJGwn6Uwc

[Anne Kroman @docAnneSquared]

My name is actually Dr Anne Kroman. My father's name is James. He is very proud. However, he is not a physician and was not involved in the actual implant. I'm all for family inclusion, however sometimes us female physicians do get to do fun incredible things too!!

[Aparna Baheti, MD @bahetimd]

@linemonkeymd @modmed @AADmember @AAOS1 @SIRspecialists @OEISociety There’s a “copy all” button in freed and then I copy it into the physician note. Super low tech.

[Aparna Baheti, MD @bahetimd]

Not dumb at all.
App on the phone. But I’m also logged into freed on my desktop which is in my office.
I use the ambient recorder on the phone, and literally read out the MA notes that are relevant in front of the patient so my ambient scribe captures it. End the note in the room.

Once I am back in my office (like 3 min later), the note is created and I can copy paste it in. I’m sure there’s a smarter way but we r doing an emr switch here at the end of the year.

It’s low tech but it works!!

[Aparna Baheti, MD @bahetimd]

@theblanketdog @ChengaziMD @farkomd @smbracewell @alexheatonmd @NevdeK @Adam_Swersky @BeauToskichMD @drochohan @JuliusChapiro @CHICKVIR @Dr_Sudi @ReneLizola @msran124 @linemonkeymd That would be really useful! The more diverse voices we have, the more exposure we get as a specialty and practice model. The key is just sitting down to write it…perhaps you have a long locums flight coming up? Or write it during MAFAT (that’s when I do all my best work 😂)

[Anthony DiGiorgio, DO, MHA @DrDiGiorgio]

It’s important to know why Medicaid can actually be worse than no coverage.

It all comes down to cash pay.

It’s illegal for a doctor to offer a cash price to a Medicaid patient. (Medicare too for that matter).

Meanwhile, Medicaid patients must wait months, sometimes years, for appointments and treatments that cost a few hundred dollars.

Take a spine steroid injection. It’s about $400 cash price. Yet Medicaid patients often have to wait >6 mo, writing in pain the whole time.

If they didn’t have Medicaid, they could get the injection for $400.

Certainly a cash-equivalent subsidy would give them better access to care than Medicaid, right?

A primary care doctor? Most Medicaid patients can’t find one.

Yet a primary care appointment can go for as little as $20. Or $100 a month if you want unlimited ones under a direct primary care plan.

Yet we literally make it illegal for Medicaid patients to participate in these markets.

How is that for “equity.”

[Aparna Baheti, MD @bahetimd]

@farkomd @ChengaziMD @smbracewell @theblanketdog @alexheatonmd @NevdeK @Adam_Swersky @BeauToskichMD @drochohan @JuliusChapiro @CHICKVIR @Dr_Sudi @ReneLizola @msran124 For IR, rates are great. For vascular surgery….not so much. Too many VS willing to work for too little imo

[Aparna Baheti, MD @bahetimd]

@JoeMorand @theblanketdog @farkomd @ChengaziMD @smbracewell @alexheatonmd @NevdeK @Adam_Swersky @BeauToskichMD @drochohan @JuliusChapiro @CHICKVIR @Dr_Sudi @ReneLizola @msran124 Tbh it has been good for me. Not for everyone I think but depending on what you need, it fits the bill. Happy to walk you through if you need.

[Aparna Baheti, MD @bahetimd]

I live in locums land now. Inari is pretty ubiquitous at the places where I work. Some of the guys I work with are penumbra evangelists tho. Haven’t used any of the other LB devices.
Wonder if there’s a big difference between the tech.

I will say it again, we need affordable options for LBT in the other sites of service.

[Aparna Baheti, MD @bahetimd]

@drcostantino1 Just insane that we’re dealing Ufe prior auth denials in 2025….smh

[Aparna Baheti, MD @bahetimd]

Fantastic meeting. :) highly recommend for trainees who want hands on experience in the PAD venous space.

[VIR at RUSH @VIR_RUSH]

An outstanding 2nd Annual #PVTL meeting led by our own @kmadass. Complex case discussions, hands-on practice with cadavers, & multidisciplinary collaboration among IR, IC, & VS all working together for #CLTI patients

#irad #vascular #endovascular #PAD #multidisciplinary #med

[Kumar Madassery @kmadass]

Wrapped up our 2nd PVTL (Peripheral Vascular Trainee Lab) meeting this weekend in Chicago, and cannot be more proud and thankful of the efforts of all the exceptionally skilled and passionate expert friends of mine from all three vascular specialties, that came to shape the future of vascular trainees.

From the one on one conversations, case based hot seats, Faculty debates and of course the amazing hands on cadaver & simulator workshops (thanks to all the industry friends that are equally passionate about helping educate the future of vascular professionals), we were able to provide an amazing experience for trainees that came from all over the country and also from as far as Egypt.

My goal has always been for the trainees to see how we can all be true friends & family despite the barriers and turfs that we are consistently forced into, and this should be learned in training so that patients don't suffer from the silos that are created.
The joy of what we are doing was seen with witnessing trainees getting to know each other, get together after the meetings and helping each other on the cadevars and sim stations. Hopefully this creates lifelong connections and they cross paths again as friends.

Thanks to my HMP Global squad that continues to help me make this all about the trainees. Hopefully even better next year at #PVTL26 #FutureIsBright

@JayMathewsMD @AmputationSuck @Watts_IR @DrLizGenovese @bahetimd @SDhandMD @HadyLichaaMD @AndrewNiekampMD @t_intheleadcoat @SriniTummala @NickMouawadMD @ChandraVenita @monteromiguel @JillSommerset @Samsayfo @michaelcsiah @dandu_n @SIRspecialists @SIRRFS @VascularSVS @SCAI @CLI_Global @BSIR_News @SVM_tweets
@hmpVDM @_backtable @vascularpodcast

[Ben White, MD @benwhitemd]

"All the images I’ve seen of places I’ve never been, people I’ve never met create a kind of pseudomemory from a pseudoworld that I don’t participate in."
- Karl Ove Knausgaard

https://t.co/aFXQ9XQuvZ

[Aparna Baheti, MD @bahetimd]

@pparikhxr 6-7

[Aparna Baheti, MD @bahetimd]

@nedholmanmd @drcostantino1 @SIRspecialists @_backtable Good point.

Have the telehealth stuff lapse is really sucky too. Just pushes wait times out further for in person visits.

[Aparna Baheti, MD @bahetimd]

Well this sucks @drcostantino1 @SIRspecialists @_backtable