Chris Faddis

Catholic, husband, father | Entreprenuer, Speaker, Author | I'm just a guy making his way to heaven.

[Become A Saint @BeSaintly]

Every morning Saint Francis de Sales recommends meditating on this:

God had no need for you, yet He made you

He made you out of nothing

He did not need you, and you do not add to Him

Yet out of nothing, He made you solely out of Love.

Consider also the times you’ve betrayed God, but specifically how He brought you back when you repented…

Likewise, you betrayed God, but He brought you back

He had no need to bring you back, but He did.

Solely out of His immense love for you, and you in particular

Remember that God loves you.

[Chris Faddis @faddicus]

@MrAzSports @snakestakes @MrAzSports this post has brought so many ppl to @CasaReynosoAZ .. it’s packed now and hard to get a table for lunch. @snakestakes server told me she wants a jersey but it’s too expensive… maybe you can hook them up with merchandise next time you’re in town!

[Chris Faddis @faddicus]

Incredible film!

[Brian Brown @briansbrown]

You've got to see the trailer and then the full movie of the origin story of radicalism.

It started in a bloodbath of Christians in the Vendee region of France.

https://t.co/pNtbuUpDsc

[Surgery Center of OK @SurgeryCenterOK]

We've provided bundled, all-inclusive surgical pricing since 1997. https://t.co/8oBIJgdTOZ is happy to help hospitals unfamiliar jump in to the world of bundled payments. GKS

[MAHA Action @MAHA_Action]

RFK Jr. says HHS is rolling out a new website that will let you compare prices across hospitals and medical centers near you.

“We’re going to have a website now that has the price of everything on it.”

“So if you want to get an MRI, it will tell you on one page what the cost is.”

“In all of the different concierge services and medical centers around you.”

[Surgery Center of OK @SurgeryCenterOK]

When leaders in healthcare innovation point to something and say “this works,” it matters.

Gregory Smith, founder of Coral Platform, shares why Surgery Center of Oklahoma stands out in a system that rarely gets it right.

Transparent pricing. Exceptional care. No surprises.

"As a patient, you have to take control of your own care. A high price doesn't mean a high quality outcome."

Take control: price your procedure today at https://t.co/9AMqge6CA3

[Steve Cortes @CortesSteve]

White House statement honoring St. Joseph!

Joseph "valiantly surrendered to God’s will with faith, fortitude, humility, and obedience—playing a central role in the life of Jesus Christ and the history of salvation."

https://t.co/efTMWkFFyi

[Dr Taylor Marshall™️ @TaylorRMarshall]

The Catholic Church invented “hospitals” based on the principle of “hospitality”.

Today, secular hospitals are based on quarterly profits.

Healthcare should be inspired by Christian mercy, not profit.

[Anthony DiGiorgio, DO, MHA @DrDiGiorgio]

Minnesota is doing something rare in healthcare: real 340B transparency.

Their 2025 report just dropped. Buckle up.

The headline: $1.34 BILLION in net 340B revenue in a single year. That’s a massive, unregulated corporate windfall. These subsidies are unavailable to independent physicians.

And no, this isn’t “for the safety net.” ~81% of MN’s 340B net revenue was captured by just 23 DSH hospitals. One system alone (UMN Medical Center) captured 26.1% ($334.7M).

“But what about federal grantees??” Safety net clinics (FQHCs/tribal centers) got under 1% of net 340B revenue statewide. So spare me the press releases about the underserved. They are the marketing face for a program that mostly bankrolls big hospital expansion.

Middlemen are feasting, too: ~$165M in 340B operational costs. This is a massive toll paid to pharmacies and TPAs to navigate a deliberately convoluted program so big systems can maximize the spread.

“There’s no public cost.” False. MDH estimates 35.5% of net 340B revenue comes from Medicare and 19.4% from Medicaid. Taxpayers are literally helping bankroll the arbitrage.

This is how you build consolidation: create a federally protected pricing loophole, then act shocked when the biggest institutions reorganize around harvesting it.

Judge a policy not by its intent but by its outcomes. 340B outcome is clear: it's a disaster.

The MN report proves 340B is no longer a small program for clinics; it’s a billion-dollar subsidy for hospital consolidation. Kudos to @mnhealth for actually showing us the receipts.

[Brian Blase @brian_blase]

The ACA mandated that insurance cover more services, that people could not receive pricing discounts for being healthy or engaging in healthy behaviors, and that massively subsidized insurers selling the product.

So, unsurprisingly, premiums went through the roof..

[Brian Blase @brian_blase]

I agree with all four of these recommendations.

1. Site neutral payments in Medicare.

2. Ending CON.

3. Repeal ACA’s limits on Medicare payments for physician-owned hospitals.

4. Expand ASCs (particularly ones separate from hospital systems).

[Chris Faddis @faddicus]

Here’s your sign…

That subsidy expiration is NOT the problem with healthcare costs rising.

[Dutch Rojas @DutchRojas]

A nonprofit hospital that reported a $201 million operating loss and laid off 650 workers just bought naming rights to the Philadelphia Eagles’ practice facility.

[Dutch Rojas @DutchRojas]

A GoodRx coupon does not lower drug prices.
It arbitrages the gap between two fake numbers and takes a cut.

The company went public at $12.7 billion.

Its entire business model depends on the system staying exactly as broken as it is.
That is not a bug.
That is the product.

[Chris Faddis @faddicus]

Great movie! Go see it! Perfect date night.

[Solo Mio @SoloMioMovie]

This Valentine's Day, get ready to fall in love again. 💖 SOLO MIO is in theaters NOW! Tickets on sale.

[Anthony DiGiorgio, DO, MHA @DrDiGiorgio]

Healthcare consolidation is bankrupting the country.

We have the diagnosis.

We have the cure as well: restore independent physician practice.

[Houman David Hemmati, MD, PhD @houmanhemmati]

Dear @POTUS @realDonaldTrump @SecKennedy @RobertKennedyJr & @DrOzCMS @DrOz You have the power to radically lower healthcare costs in the USA by ENDING the ridiculous 2-tier payment system where the SAME clinic owned by a “hospital” gets paid 2-3x for the SAME visit.

Where does that $ go? Not to doctors. To hospital CEOs/leadership.

CEO of @UCLAHealth - a STATE institution - made nearly $2.5 MILLION in 2024!

Hospitals have exploited this by buying non-hospital clinics, calling them hospital outpatient centers, and raking in the cash. And they build massive outpatient facilities that regular docs cannot compete with.

End this today and I promise healthcare costs will plummet.

[healthbot @thehealthb0t]

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[Chris Faddis @faddicus]

Ding ding ding… subsidies won’t make healthcare affordable- fixing this will!

[Anthony DiGiorgio, DO, MHA @DrDiGiorgio]

The public should be far angrier about facility fees than it is.

Picture two clinics. One is an independent physician practice. The other is the exact same type of clinic, same doctors, same rooms, same services, but owned by a large hospital system.

That second clinic is classified as a hospital outpatient department. Nothing about the care is different. But the prices a "hospital outpatient department" gets to charge the government are multiple times higher than the independent clinic.

Routine office visits, imaging, echocardiograms, in office procedures all get marked up simply because a hospital’s name is on the door. The independent doctor gets paid one rate. The hospital owned clinic gets paid more for doing the exact same thing.

That extra money lets the hospital pay higher staff salaries, outbid independents for equipment, spend more on marketing, and layer on amenities that have nothing to do with care. The independent physician is now competing against a system that is legally allowed to charge more for identical services.

Patients are mostly blind to this. They are not told they are walking into a higher priced clinic. They do not see the facility fee until the bill shows up.

And then the patients are screwed again once enough independent practices are driven out of business. Patients lose the option of seeing a lower cost physician altogether. They are forced into hospital owned clinics that charge more and often deliver a worse experience.

This is not an accident. Medicare explicitly wrote these payment rules into its fee schedules. Private insurers largely follow Medicare’s lead, so the distortion spreads across the entire system.

It's almost as if the system is designed to elminate independent physician practice...

[Chris Faddis @faddicus]

This will change healthcare more than any subsidy ever could. Price transparency is the answer. 90% of all American's - regardless of political affiliation support price transparency.

[Dutch Rojas @DutchRojas]

𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐛𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝟓𝟎 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬. 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐝𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬𝐧’𝐭 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐲.

Every hospital in America is being forced to publish prices.

Most people hear that and think:
“Cool. Patients can shop now.”

That’s not the real story. Here’s the Dutch insight…

Healthcare is crossing a line it has never crossed before:

It’s becoming computable.

That matters far more to entrepreneurs and data scientists than to patients.

Because once prices exist, a chain reaction starts:

• Markets form
• Benchmarks emerge
• Arbitrage appears
• Bundles can be built
• Risk can be priced
• Forward contracts become possible (yes, my SurgeryFutures)

This is how every modern industry was rebuilt.

Not with speeches.
With data.

This is what incumbents are actually afraid of.

They never feared patients.

They fear:
• Models
• Comparisons
• Graphs
• Rankings
• Dashboards that ask: “Why is this 20x more expensive?”

Opacity protected margins.
Data destroys them.

The Dutch Line:

Price transparency isn’t a “patient-first” policy.

It’s an infrastructure shift.

And when infrastructure changes, power follows.

Healthcare just crossed that line…
Let’s go 🔥🔥🔥