Shelby Burks, M.D.

Neurosurgeon at the University of Miami - Spine and Peripheral Nerve

[Congressman Greg Murphy, M.D. @RepGregMurphy]

The @WaysandMeansGOP held a hearing on the impact of rising health care costs on patients and families. 

We have to have serious reform of health insurers, pharmacy benefit managers, and their subsidiaries to reduce the cost of healthcare.

[Third_Eye_Prophet @Third_i_Prophet]

Here are some facts about money in healthcare that most people in congress, and many doctors, don't realize-

1. Doctors don't get a tax write-off for charity care or unpaid bills

2. Medicare hasn't increased payment rates to doctors since 1992

3. Seeing a hospital-employed doctor costs twice as much as seeing a private doctor in the same office building, because of facility fees

4. We spend $50-60 Billion per year in facility fees for office visits, enough to fund ACA subsidies and finally tie physician payments to inflation, and still have $ leftover

5. After overhead and taxes, a surgeon takes home about $300 for doing a complex 3-hour revision hip replacement

6. Doctor and nurse salaries account for a smaller portion of Healthcare spending in America than in our peer countries (Combined 16%)

7. Total Administration spending in America is 30% of Healthcare costs, which is substantially higher than any other country (Singapore is 3-5%)

8. Healthcare administrator salaries have tripled since 1992, while physician payments per work-RVU from Medicare have increased 3%

Got any more to add?

[Natalie morgan @SpineNeuro]

It’s amazing how much care a hospital can provide when it is not spending >50% of its budget on a bloated bureaucracy

[Anthony DiGiorgio, DO, MHA @DrDiGiorgio]

Want to solve the rural healthcare crisis in America?

Just get out of the way and let physicians solve it.

You don't need new subsidies that will just be directed by politicians towards their buddies in large consolidated hospital systems.

Let physicians build hospitals and solve it. Look at Doctor's Hospital Renaissance in the Rio Grande Valley. Built by physicians, this hospital serves its community, with doctors practicing where they grew up.

That's all you need. Doctors desprately want to build new hospitals. They want to serve their communities. They want to provide high quality care at low cost without the administrative bloat that is destroying their profession.

Physician ownership of hospitals was outlawed in the Affordable Care Act, and now, for over a decade, physicians have been blocked from solving the the problem of rural healthcare.

Just let doctors build.

See our latest in @BeckersSpine below

[The Buoniconti Fund / Miami Project @BuonicontiFund]

For a 28-year-old man living with tetraplegia from a motor vehicle accident, "Literally everything changed,” he says, describing life after participating in a nerve transfer surgery study.

Read here: https://t.co/vr1pHt7eTo

#LifeChangingScience #MiamiProject #UMiamiMedicine

[Shelby Burks, M.D. @stsburks]

Amazing presidential address @AANSNeuro
by Dr. Ann Stroink @NeurosurgeryRE on advocacy in Neurosurgery.
#myfirstaans was in New Orleans 2013!

[Shelby Burks, M.D. @stsburks]

Amazing graduation celebration last weekend. Thank you to all who have supported me throughout the journey. Looking forward to what’s lies ahead!! @ Miami Beach, Florida https://t.co/DVaGuR3ylp

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

Florida tried to cover up the worst tuberculosis outbreak in 20 years http://t.co/mXdedSi9 via @TheAtlanticWire

[Shelby Burks, M.D. @stsburks]

@MarcSherwin u r right varsh is the best 🏆

[Shelby Burks, M.D. @stsburks]

@MarcSherwin nice video lol yes that's exactly what the small toy chopper will be like

[Shelby Burks, M.D. @stsburks]

@azizansari Red eye flight to Miami? See you at the Fillmore lots of med students coming to the show

[Shelby Burks, M.D. @stsburks]

@travelinmonks reading Postmortal hope to Skype in

[Shelby Burks, M.D. @stsburks]

@purpleppleatery eating a chorizo corn dog with these purple people eaters

[Shelby Burks, M.D. @stsburks]

@sideweight yo rocca check out das racist, just got their album "sit down man" the dudes are ballin

[UMiami Health System @UMiamiHealth]

UM's Dr. Ralph Sacco, president of the AHA, says complex migraines can mimic strokes or transient ischemic attacks. http://om.ly/BNUXt

[Great Minds Quotes @GreatestQuotes]

"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought." - Jonathan Swift

[Dave Zinczenko @DaveZinczenko]

HEALTH MYTH: Though we spend more on food labeled "natural", it usually means nothing. (Tornadoes are natural, too.)

[Shelby Burks, M.D. @stsburks]

@SnydBucker hey Snyd guy.. just thought I'd give you a little love