Aron Fast, MD | Partners in Family Care

Husband. Father. Physician. Small business owner. Kansas Medical Society President 2024-2025.

[Aron Fast, MD | Partners in Family Care @runfast00]

Yikes! We need hospitals but we also need a health care system that works to keep people healthy and out of hospital.

[Larry Levitt @larry_levitt]

Hospitals account for 40% of the recent growth in national health spending.
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[Aron Fast, MD | Partners in Family Care @runfast00]

IV therapy clinics may be breaking the law https://t.co/wCe3vReYM4

[Aron Fast, MD | Partners in Family Care @runfast00]

For Medicare to be cost contained MSSP programs need to expand. https://t.co/SSQ7ZxNd45

[Swather Athletics @SwatherAD]

3A State Champions! Congratulations to the team and Coach Peters!

[Aron Fast, MD | Partners in Family Care @runfast00]

I was beginning to lose faith in AI, but then @EvidenceOpen stepped in to restore my faith.

[OpenEvidence @EvidenceOpen]

For physicians, every day is Game Day.

[Aron Fast, MD | Partners in Family Care @runfast00]

I hope all Kansas Physicians are aware how to contest coverage decisions for commercial insurance: https://t.co/ghudluFB1h

[Aron Fast, MD | Partners in Family Care @runfast00]

This is a BIG deal for patients that need it.

[Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company @costplusdrugs]

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⭐️ Thank you to Ascend Laboratories for making this possible!

[Aron Fast, MD | Partners in Family Care @runfast00]

I’ve seen this map several times in the past few days, and I admit it is hard to believe that it is real. People are living longer and with more complicated illness. Hard to say if rising employment in healthcare is sustainable or even good. It is what it is.

[Aron Fast, MD | Partners in Family Care @runfast00]

Getting really specific with my medical practice, this feels like a family medicine clinic day where I end up spending a lot of my time in the “things I do” section returning faxes, doing prior authorization requests, filling out return to work forms etc.

[Douglas A. Boneparth @dougboneparth]

I’m in this picture and I don’t like it.

[Aron Fast, MD | Partners in Family Care @runfast00]

@TheCompoundNews @awealthofcs It looks like a bar code…

[Aron Fast, MD | Partners in Family Care @runfast00]

If only physicians were on a level playing field…I feel like I’m always walking uphill.

[Farzad Mostashari @Farzad_MD]

32/ The math's a little complicated, so we asked the actuaries at Milliman what would happen if ACOs could improve RA by 1% in 2025 (scenario 1)

Over 5 years,
MSSP payouts would go up by $2B (10%)
MA expenditures would decrease by $11B (0.2%)

Maybe ACOs should have more tools!

[Farzad Mostashari @Farzad_MD]

32/ The math's a little complicated, so we asked the actuaries at Milliman what would happen if ACOs could improve RA by 1% in 2025 (scenario 1)

Over 5 years,
MSSP payouts would go up by $2B (10%)
MA expenditures would decrease by $11B (0.2%)

Maybe ACOs should have more tools!

[Aron Fast, MD | Partners in Family Care @runfast00]

Can this really be true? 1% of all federal expenditures are on dialysis?!?

[Sheel Mohnot @pitdesi]

TIL - 0.8% of the US budget is spent on Kidney dialysis

[Aron Fast, MD | Partners in Family Care @runfast00]

That’s crazy! Recent history shows it’s hard to lose if you are playing the game.

[Ben Carlson @awealthofcs]

31 Years of Stock Market Returns

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[Aron Fast, MD | Partners in Family Care @runfast00]

I support site neutral payments, too.

[Dan Diamond @ddiamond]

An unusual group of ideological allies — Obama HHS secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Trump HHS secretary Alex Azar, Paragon’s @brian_blase, Brookings’ @LorenAdler, etc — all agree: Medicare should start paying the same rate for the same service.

[Aron Fast, MD | Partners in Family Care @runfast00]

Some of this @FTC report is redacted. This figure, however, is not.

[Aron Fast, MD | Partners in Family Care @runfast00]

Son: Dad, why is health care so complicated?
Dad: https://t.co/mW7Axfbhqi

[Aron Fast, MD | Partners in Family Care @runfast00]

Happy 18th Anniversary to my wife!

How it started…. how it’s going.

[Aron Fast, MD | Partners in Family Care @runfast00]

Northern lights in Kansas.