Vinay Mascarenhas

Passionate about health care productivity improvement.

[Vinay Mascarenhas @vmascarenhas]

Mid-levels critical to addressing increase in demand (due to Caid expansion), shortage of supply (too few PCPs) http://t.co/ESiqJatocc

[Vinay Mascarenhas @vmascarenhas]

Babies born today could live to be 150. Medicare ain't seen nothing yet.
http://t.co/5W19jjSeO9

[Vinay Mascarenhas @vmascarenhas]

Next domino to fall: Florida!
http://t.co/SRty5YD8UN

[Vinay Mascarenhas @vmascarenhas]

Ohio falls in line. #dominoeffect
http://t.co/uOtUNcQZ

[Vinay Mascarenhas @vmascarenhas]

Administration consumes 14% of health care cost or $360B. Billing, billing, billing.

[Vinay Mascarenhas @vmascarenhas]

If we go over the fiscal cliff, Medicare cuts provider reimbursement rates by 26%. TANF extension to expire in March.

[Vinay Mascarenhas @vmascarenhas]

Given reimbursement complexity, it makes sense that telemed pioneers are IDNs such as Geisenger, KP, VA
http://t.co/gzueJLVI

[Vinay Mascarenhas @vmascarenhas]

CBO now projects that MA enrollment will decrease to about 11MM by 2022. It's at 13.2M today.

[Vinay Mascarenhas @vmascarenhas]

Courtesy of Stephanie Bartz - why hospitals are lousy places. http://t.co/dWsZs8ws

[Vinay Mascarenhas @vmascarenhas]

Something drastic has to be done to reshape Care + Caid. NYT is too cautious. http://t.co/z9Ppha9T

[Vinay Mascarenhas @vmascarenhas]

Medicare's hospital trust fund will run out by 2024. We can start by raising eligibility age to 67, which would cut costs by 5% by 2035.

[Vinay Mascarenhas @vmascarenhas]

Medicare and Medicaid consumed 21% of federal GDP in 2011.

[Vinay Mascarenhas @vmascarenhas]

Latest edition of the Medicare data Bible does not disappoint http://t.co/Gwl4QJfc

[Vinay Mascarenhas @vmascarenhas]

Why not simply penalize physicians for avoidable hospitalizations? Readmissions penalty treats symptom not cause. http://t.co/OKgdBc0j

[Sarah Kliff @sarahkliff]

Survived SCOTUS, survived the election: Obamacare is happening.

[Vinay Mascarenhas @vmascarenhas]

72% of Medicaid lives are in a managed care plan

[Vinay Mascarenhas @vmascarenhas]

Disintermediation of health plans by WMT http://t.co/jKvsxFJA

[Vinay Mascarenhas @vmascarenhas]

athena health - swimming against the tide. Hospital-employed physician trend is only accelerating. http://t.co/iLTnkLGs

[Vinay Mascarenhas @vmascarenhas]

Only 19 states + DC have made concrete steps towards building health insurance exchanges. The only clear winner: Bloom Health.

[Vinay Mascarenhas @vmascarenhas]

Creative way to avoid the MLR trap. http://t.co/U2BN0c5M