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6 months

@yashar @Shayan86 Violently protesting for a cease fire is the peak of irony.

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Neil Young “Ohio” solo at Jazz Fest

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UnitedHealth Chair, Executives Sold $102 Million in Stock Before US Probe Became Public There’s no indication that the trades were executed according to scheduled trading plans in filings related to the transactions. UnitedHealth said officers and directors must get clearance

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Dave Grohl’s fan energy at U2 last night was infectious. FLOTUS was at the show too.

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Payor database study of spinal fusion surgery - researchers posit that sarcopenia and/or bone loss could be causing 12x (!) higher second surgery rate in GLP-1 patients. This needs to be investigated. “people taking semaglutide were nearly 12 times more likely to have an

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Love this “The economists also determined that 50-year-old founders were almost twice as likely to achieve major success as 30-year-old founders, while the founders with the lowest chance of success were the ones in their early 20s.”

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"He Turned 55. Then He Started World’s Most Important Company." via @WSJ I wonder if key determinant of ideal founder is type of business- consumer oriented, pure tech -> youth & creativity B2B, complex ecosystems, service-enabled -> experience, connections, & management?

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@RickABright @USDA I do wonder if an important root cause issue here will end up being large dairy farmers resisting more voluntary testing regimes, not declaring cows sick, not cutting interstate travel for sick cows etc so as to prevent herd culling and ensuing revenue loss. It’s a shame but I

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@AnnaBower Now let’s see if they decide in 25 days (as they did in Colorado case) or 65 days.

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@bijans

2 months

Jan 3 - Petition for cert filed by Trump Jan 5 - SCOTUS grants petition, schedules argument Feb 8 - argument at SCOTUS Mar 4 - SCOTUS decision 2 days to decide on petition, argument scheduled for 34 days later. Decision 25 days after argument. Now contrast this with Jan 6 case.

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@JoyceWhiteVance What's your take on the vastly different SCOTUS timelines on the two cases? Answer is perhaps related to your point above

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@bijans

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Jan 3 - Petition for cert filed by Trump Jan 5 - SCOTUS grants petition, schedules argument Feb 8 - argument at SCOTUS Mar 4 - SCOTUS decision 2 days to decide on petition, argument scheduled for 34 days later. Decision 25 days after argument. Now contrast this with Jan 6 case.

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@DKThomp And how about the fact that his”lab” has not had an active grant since 2020. Grifters gonna grift.

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Stupid moron.

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Important from @zeynep - I hope some policymakers are reading this and doing something about it - and then communicating that effectively. I remain in the camp that USDA simple is not equipped to handle this. CDC needs to lead with private and public labs scaling up testing and

zeynep tufekci

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New piece on H5N1. I've spent weeks talking with officials from the FDA, USDA, CDC, WH, ASPR, etc., and with public health and agriculture people in various states about the growing H5N1 cattle outbreak. It's not good. We're not responding properly.

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Just incredible.

The New York Times

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Breaking News: The first patient to receive a kidney transplanted from a genetically modified pig has fared so well that he has been discharged from the hospital on Wednesday, just two weeks after the groundbreaking surgery.

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@eorden @kyledcheney But judge reserves the right to move it again "The Court will set the new trial date, if necessary, when it rules on Defendant’s motion following the hearing."

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Jan 3 - Petition for cert filed by Trump Jan 5 - SCOTUS grants petition, schedules argument Feb 8 - argument at SCOTUS Mar 4 - SCOTUS decision 2 days to decide on petition, argument scheduled for 34 days later. Decision 25 days after argument. Now contrast this with Jan 6 case.

Peter Baker

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Supreme Court rules that Trump should remain on Colorado’s primary ballot, rejecting a challenge to his eligibility for another term that could have upended the presidential race by taking him off ballots around the nation. @adamliptak

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@AlecMacGillis Feels more and more like a sad ghost town when I’m there. I can’t help but think if return to office was taken seriously by agencies and law firms that the station wouldn’t be so dead.

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@RepAdamSchiff It's already delayed as we sit here today +34 days vs. the Colorado case, Congressman

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@bijans

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Jan 3 - Petition for cert filed by Trump Jan 5 - SCOTUS grants petition, schedules argument Feb 8 - argument at SCOTUS Mar 4 - SCOTUS decision 2 days to decide on petition, argument scheduled for 34 days later. Decision 25 days after argument. Now contrast this with Jan 6 case.

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In a sea of bad health insurers news, Oscar stands out. Impressive.

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What folks in the industry feared for the last 20 years seems to be true --> China's WuXi AppTec shared US client's data with Beijing, US intelligence officials told senators

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@bijans

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“48% of Republicans believe the state is "not really American," the survey found.”

Half of Republicans say California isn't really American

A new poll shows California's reputation battered by its high cost of living and by partisanship — half of Republicans say the state isn't really American

www.latimes.com

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@chrissyfarr @ExpressScripts Went through this tree nut allergy (anaphylaxis) w both kids except with Caremark. It’s a complete cluster that will make you and your allergist want to pull your hair out. Sadly parents have to be air traffic cops. Add in fact that some schools don’t take adrenaclick or even

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3 months

Sadly more and more of this is coming given 25% of our population has turned deeply anti-science and is willing to gamble with the lives of their kids.

Alexander Tin

@Alexander_Tin

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Earlier today, Indiana said it had reported their first measles case in five years Now officials in Illinois say they are working with @CDCgov to respond to exposures across three different Chicago hospitals from the case

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Disrupting people’s commutes to work. Doctors, nurses, people who need to clock in for hourly wage.

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@abc7newsbayarea

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Both directions of the Golden Gate Bridge have been shut down due to a Pro-Palestinian protest. Demonstrators have blocked the southbound direction of Highway 101. This is the second protest causing major back-ups on Bay Area roadways, the demonstration has blocked northbound

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I’m here and I can’t wait!

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@u2songs

3 months

Tonight is the 40th and final night of #U2UVSphere . The trucks are waiting to take it all away. Our show archive for the night is here: (Many thanks to Jenna for the photo, and all the sharing these last few months!)

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@bijans

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Perhaps the most brazen criminal healthcare violation I’ve ever seen - Former CEO Of Medical Device Company Stimwave Convicted Of Creating And Selling A Fake Component That Was Implanted Into Patients

Former CEO Of Medical Device Company Convicted Of Creating And Selling A Fake Component That Was...

Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that a jury returned a guilty verdict today against LAURA PERRYMAN on two counts of an Indictment charging...

www.justice.gov

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@bijans

3 months

@SolidEvidence Human metapneumovirus (hMPV) must be in top 5?

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6 months

@wolfejosh And the guy who owns this website is doing his best to keep up with TikTok

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@Yair_Rosenberg

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This is literally the conspiracy theory espoused by the white supremacist who massacred the Pittsburgh Tree of Life synagogue. Musk approves. I have no further commentary.

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@RickABright @barnes_weise @Measie_ @BrusJulian @NBCNews @US_FDA @michaelmina_lab I’m usually a big believer in FDA but they have dropped the ball on rapid testing and continue to have paternalistic worldview.

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New from Pauly - today's PE practice consolidation is a bad replay of the failed 90s play and will likely fail but not bc PE is inherently bad but bc owning practices is a bad investment Equity Investment in Physician Practices: What's All This Brouhaha?

Equity Investment in Physician Practices: What's All This Brouhaha?

Abstract. There have been two waves of equity-based investment in physician practices. Both used a combination of public and private sources, but in different mixes. The first investment wave in the...

read.dukeupress.edu

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@Dahlialithwick Jan 6 Trump case - even forgetting Special Counsel prior requests for expedited process... Feb 12 - application for stay filed w/ SCOTUS by Trump Feb 28 - SCOTUS grants cert and stay. Apr 22 - argument scheduled 16 days from app to decision. Argument scheduled for 54 days

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would love some expert thoughts on this - is immunity weightier issue taking longer at each step? But it was a fully briefed case from appellate level. Or is SCOTUS majority politics at play with delays as a feature and not a bug? @Dahlialithwick

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The case for standalone ambulatory infusion centers and much needed 340b reform - 340b hospitals markup infused drug prices 6.6x (!) vs physician practice infusion sites.

Hospital Prices for Physician-Administered Drugs for Patients with Private Insurance | NEJM

Hospitals can leverage their position between the ultimate buyers and sellers of drugs to retain a substantial share of insurer pharmaceutical expenditures. In this study, we used 2020–2021 nationa...

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The Steve Martin documentary on Apple TV is simply spectacular.

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To quote Chris Rock: “Grand opening. Grand closing.”

Drew Armstrong

@ArmstrongDrew

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Walmart is getting out of the live/virtual care biz. Not a shock (they never really figured out a committed strategy here) and the move follows Optum's exit from virtual care and Walgreens pullback from clinics. More coming from @ShelbyJLiv

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Saturday night in Vegas

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@u2gigs Here’s MLK

U2 - 11 MLK - LAS VEGAS SPHERE - 08 OCT 2023

U2 UV Achtung Baby Live at Sphere 08 OCT 2023 FULL SHOW1 Zoo Station2 The Fly3 Even Better Than the Real Thing4 Mysterious Ways5 One6 Until the End of the Wo...

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@Farzad_MD @ahahospitals Why has CMS been silent on this? How can this be? Do they not have regulatory authority? Or are they handling in private? The silence is only furthering a perception that they don't care. Bad bad bad.

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The group’s findings were supported by a similar analysis conducted this week by Aledade, a network of independent primary care providers, which found that urinary catheter claims across its 1 million patients increased by more than 1,600 percent between early 2022 and late 2023,

Dan Diamond

@ddiamond

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Scoop: federal officials are investigating a potential $2 billion Medicare fraud scheme, involving misused data from hundreds of thousands of patients. Alleged fraud centers on mysterious spike in urinary catheter bills. With @LaurenWeberHP @dtkeating .

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Northeastern University received almost 100,000 applications this year - an increase of 33,914 applicants, or 53%, over five years. With a yield rate of 56% last year, that implies ~6,000 admits or 6% acceptance rate. 30 years ago, NE acceptance rate was 97%.

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@bijans

2 months

Happy Nowruz everyone - 11:06pm ET tonight

What the 3,500-year-old holiday of Nowruz can teach us in 2024

Rather than fading from relevance, the values of this ancient festival – from taking a yearly reset to connecting with nature in a precarious time – are now more important than ever.

www.bbc.com

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@bijans

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"Existing noncompetes for senior executives - who represent less than 0.75% of workers - can remain in force under the FTC’s final rule, but employers are banned from entering into or attempting to enforce any new noncompetes, even if they involve senior executives. Employers

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@daviesbj And FTC on page 269 of final rules says that physicians who work in a health system are NOT senior executives unless in C-Suite "In contrast, a physician who works within a hospital system but does not have policymaking authority over the organization as a whole would not

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The cybercriminal who claims to have given BlackCat access to Change’s network says the crime gang cheated them out of their share of the paid $22M ransom "Sadly for Change Healthcare, their data [is] still with us." h/t @nikillinit

BlackCat Ransomware Group Implodes After Apparent $22M Payment by Change Healthcare

There are indications that U.S. healthcare giant Change Healthcare has made a $22 million extortion payment to the infamous BlackCat ransomware group (a.k.a. "ALPHV") as the company struggles to...

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When the largest healthcare hack of all time protects you from any questions around anti trust issues. Analyst report - “Compared to what these hearing may have looked like a few weeks ago, the level of Congressional ire was somewhat reduced, and Witty deflected pointed

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HHS opens probe into UnitedHealth’s cybersecurity as hack fallout continue - new @ddiamond "Three weeks after the cyberattack, and with many health-care payments still frozen, hospitals and doctors have continued to warn that they are struggling to meet payroll, and lawmakers

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Shame on CVS Specialty / Caremark and Carefirst. Helping a family member with a specialty prescription today and Caremark is back to its copay accumulator ways despite court cases and HHS stance against. Now they ask if a debit card to pay patient portion "was supplied" by

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@daviesbj And more FTC "Similarly, in the medical context, neither the head of a hospital’s surgery practice nor a physician who runs an internal medical practice that is part of a hospital system would be senior executives, assuming they are decision-makers only for their particular

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@SolidEvidence @AlisaValdesRod1 Is the Kobu Aichivirus A? Though I’m not sure if A is prevalent in North America

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USDA not equipped for this. WH needs to work through jurisdictional food fight and get CDC/FDA in control. Else we’ve leaned absolutely nothing in last 4 years.

Eric Topol

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This isn't good, folks. I'm not worried about H5N1 transmission to humans (yet) but the @USDA pathetic lack of transparency, how long it took for the genomes to be released, lack of testing asymptomatic cattle...... All detracts from "confidence"

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Just as feared - "Texas, the first state where the bird flu virus was detected, has not invited the CDC to conduct epidemiological field studies there, even though its health department is open to the research, because, “We haven’t found a dairy farm that is interested in

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There’s really no athlete more fun to watch than Steph.

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CMS looking at more prior auth rules "We continue to look at prior authorization, and of course we are strengthening our oversight" They need to start with a hard position on copay accumulators. This is a massive pocketbook issue felt by real people everywhere. CMS sits silent.

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Link

UnitedHealth Chair, Executives Sold $102 Million in Stock Before US Probe Became Public

UnitedHealth Group Inc. Chairman Stephen Hemsley and three senior executives netted a combined $101.5 million from stock sales made over four months leading up to when the public became aware of a...

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@bijans

4 months

Get in line

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Politico is reporting that behind closed doors, President Biden calls former President Trump “a sick fuck” and a “fucking asshole.”

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Fact that hush money trial is first while other more meaty cases like J-6 might disappear with passage of time is a very very bad thing for anyone who supports democracy. Between Willis poor judgement and Garland poor judgement, seems no court will save the republic.

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@daviesbj So awful. Every one of those administrators and department chairs should be terminated.

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@Farzad_MD the irony and bad faith emanating from Minnetonka is thick these days.

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I'm no fan of PE doc roll-ups, but FTC having an outside speaker who has no idea how the PE actually works is stunning to me. Can we at least operate on some actual shared facts?

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@bijans

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Explainer by ⁦ @ddiamond ⁩ on how he and colleagues reported their excellent catheter (ok foley ⁦ @daviesbj ⁩) scam story “Tavarez said she sold her company last year for $50,000. It’s since been linked to more than $260 million of catheter bills.”

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RSV vaccine “The latest data from the CDC shows that only 16 percent of eligible pregnant people got vaccinated. Among the over 60 population, it was just over one in five. And among babies and eligible young children, the uptake was “low,” the CDC said.”

Benjy Renton

@bhrenton

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Low uptake of the new RSV vaccine for infants (and older adults) underscores the continuing need to combat misinformation and have a cohesive strategy for addressing anti-vaccine sentiments.

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@daviesbj Looks like it. Nothing mentioned except senior executive carve out for senior executives making > $150k AND being in policy making role.

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Stunning data on school absenteeism - about 1 in 4 kids. Stark in poorest school districts but even has doubled in wealthiest ones like Brookline, MA.

Alec MacGillis

@AlecMacGillis

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Such stark new nationwide numbers on the post-pandemic surge in absenteeism, via @smervosh & @fparises , showing barely any improvement last year:

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1. This is crazy. 2. Trump’s counsel sounds like Mark the Bagger - if you know, you know.

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Kagan: How about if the president orders the military to stage a coup? Sauer: If one adopted the test we advanced, that might well be an official act

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Well that’s one way to settle it. “One timers” on next earnings call? Hackers Behind the Change Healthcare Ransomware Attack Just Received a $22 Million Payment

Hackers Behind the Change Healthcare Ransomware Attack Just Received a $22 Million Payment

The transaction, visible on Bitcoin's blockchain, suggests the victim of one of the worst ransomware attacks in years may have paid a very large ransom.

www.wired.com

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Not so fast. Correction posted by Optum

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@bijans

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Change outage resolved. Looks like they created a clean new instance.

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Practice rollups are usually bad ideas. News at 11 Lifestance Closes 82 Clinics, Says No Plans for Near-Term Deals:

Lifestance Closes 82 Clinics, Says No Plans for Near-Term Deals

Lifestance Health Group Inc. (Nasdaq: LFST) will focus inward during 2024 to push toward profitability. The Scottsdale, Arizona-based outpatient

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United Health Group’s secretive, undisclosed buying spree continues. ASCs in MA heavy geographies and a risk adjustment vendor. “Filings show UnitedHealth acquired Episource, a technology company that helps insurers [with] “risk adjustment.” Reporting by @bobjherman

Bob Herman

@bobjherman

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In December, Fresenius sold National Cardiovascular Partners, which operates cardiac cath labs across the country, to an unnamed buyer. Turns out that buyer was UnitedHealth Group. $UNH quietly bought dozens of outpatient centers like this last year.

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Medicare and Medicaid open coverage of anti-obesity drugs for heart patients -

Medicare and Medicaid open coverage of anti-obesity drugs for heart patients

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said that anti-obesity drugs should be covered for patients getting them for additional medical conditions, a move that could meaningfully expand access...

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@RickABright @barnes_weise @Measie_ @BrusJulian @NBCNews @US_FDA @michaelmina_lab Ps. Hope you feel better!

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@daviesbj @m_e_nielsen I think it applies to non-profits - many commenters from AMCs wanted to exclude but FTC says the following: "Many of the comments about nonprofits erroneously assume that the FTC’s jurisdiction does not capture any entity claiming tax-exempt status as a nonprofit. Given these

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68% of Venture backed companies have to raise by end of ‘24

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Heard from VC LPs this week: @stepstonegroup & @hamilton_lane gave annual market reviews. When they talk, I listen closely. Why? Their data, relationships, & toolkit (great team, fund, commits, secondaries, coinvests) make them very strategic to the GP/LP ecosystem. Takeaways👇

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@U2start It does feel like recording for a new album feels a long way away given Larry situation. More Sphere shows added reinforces this.

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Ascent’s founder and CEO points to a hulking unit that he says is worth $1.5 million. It’s used to produce time-release Concerta tablets. “About 25 percent of the generic market would pass through this machine,” he says. “But we didn’t make a single pill in 2023.”

Matthew Herper

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The Adderall Shortage: Is One Factory Magnifying the Crisis?

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“The state-sponsored actor has since been identified as Blackcat, a Russian-sponsored ransomware group, Optum said. Blackcat, also known as ALPHV, was infiltrated by the FBI at the end of last year, but the agency was unsuccessful in shutting it down.“

Communication is key in managing cyberattack: Optum CEO

UnitedHealth Group's Change Healthcare subsidiary is expected to have a "material update" as early as Tuesday following a major ransomware attack that's now on its fifth straight day and stalling...

finance.yahoo.com

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@bijans

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@christymaginn Imagine when the prescription history of celebrities, executives, and senior government and military officials are used to blackmail them.

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What could go wrong? Nearly 70 year old Justice, T1D with prior hypoglycemic events, headed into a tough D 2024 senate map and best case a 50-50 presidential election? Lessons seem to be never learned. I guess folks like idea of 7-2?

New Health Records Deepen Questions Around Justice Sonia Sotomayor

Marshals Service records indicate Sotomayor was the only sitting justice to request such care. Some progressives have called in the past for her to retire while Biden is president.

www.huffpost.com

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Bijan Salehizadeh

@bijans

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In light of the ongoing Change Healthcare debacle, excellent piece by @slotkinjr @DavidVawdrey on how legislators and regulators can tighten healthcare infrastructure by using financial services and NTSB as a guide. The healthcare system needs to be hardened and there is a

Jonathan Slotkin, MD

@slotkinjr

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Health care is critical infrastructure. The Change Healthcare hack exposed the need for significant intervention. In our latest in @statnews , @DavidVawdrey and I propose the formation of a new regulatory framework. And we won’t need to reinvent the wheel. More: 🧵1/4 🔗-

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@bijans

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Can someone please explain to me what part of the law makes it so that this is a misdemeanor? Woman sucker-punched on NYC street. Jaw broken, permanent damage to upper lip, three teeth knocked out. Perp with history of 7 prior violent assaults is caught but charged w/ 3rd

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@bijans

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New from @RichardvReeves “there are now 2.4 million more female than male undergraduates on U.S. campuses (8.9 million women compared to 6.5 million men).” Link below for some root cause analysis….

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Bijan Salehizadeh

@bijans

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@ethanjweiss Exactly - the two remarkable things are risk reduction in already low LDL and fact that it occurred despite weight loss in this study only being half of what previous studies for semaglutide. Either non-weight factors explain this or had the weight loss been higher here, the

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@bijans

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H5N1 Strain Of Bird Flu Found In Milk: WHO

The H5N1 bird flu virus strain has been detected in very high concentrations in raw milk from infected animals, the WHO said Friday, though how long the virus can survive in milk is unknown.

www.barrons.com

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Bijan Salehizadeh

@bijans

4 months

@angie_rasmussen IRBs are for rent so sadly, not a surprise.

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@bijans

3 months

Tampa General Hospital CEO on Change Healthcare Breach: They Are Going To Have To Give an Update Soon "Even if they decided to switch vendors, he said he wouldn’t know who to go to."

Tampa General Hospital CEO on Change Healthcare Breach: They Are Going To Have To Give an Update...

In an interview at the Vive conference in Los Angeles, John Couris said that while he is sympathetic toward Change Healthcare's current woes, he wants definitive answers soon.

medcitynews.com

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Bijan Salehizadeh

@bijans

2 months

Our robot overlords are here. Also, we humans are so bad at grasping exponential progress....

Figure

@Figure_robot

2 months

With OpenAI, Figure 01 can now have full conversations with people -OpenAI models provide high-level visual and language intelligence -Figure neural networks deliver fast, low-level, dexterous robot actions Everything in this video is a neural network:

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Bijan Salehizadeh

@bijans

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"Bridges Health Partners filed a lawsuit in state court Wednesday alleging Aetna broke contract terms by categorizing extra benefits such as gym memberships and CVS gift cards as medical expenses." $6.2 million in costs related to Aetna supplemental benefits in 2023, up more

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Bijan Salehizadeh

@bijans

2 months

Our utterly broken college application process where yield seeking colleges desperate for revenue certainty ask 17 and 18 year olds to commit to them in a binding fashion. “In just the last five years, the number of early applications jumped by 1 million, a 60 percent increase”

Jeff Selingo

@jselingo

2 months

Since 2000, the number of applications to the 67 most selective colleges in the nation has tripled to nearly 2 million a year. That's why a "wall of 5's" on AP exams doesn't move the needle like it used to at Duke. My latest for @NYMag

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@bijans

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“While claimnig to not be an “anti-vaxxer,” she said she shared Kennedy’s constant attacks on vaccines. She also describes herself as a progressive who cares about children’s health.” Code word bingo score. RFK Jr. to name wealthy attorney Nicole Shanahan as running mate in

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@bijans

5 months

@bradloncar Totally. While the masses were grumbling and wallowing in pity, the smart companies were hiring advisors and prepping for sale.

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@bijans

3 months

Very thoughtful op-ed from @ezraklein "I have this nightmare that Trump wins in 2024. And then in 2025 and 2026, out come the campaign tell-all books, and they’re full of emails and WhatsApp messages between Biden staffers and Democratic leaders, where they’re all saying to each

Alec MacGillis

@AlecMacGillis

3 months

"We had to wait till this year — till now, really — to see Biden even begin to show what he’d be like on the campaign trail. And what I think we’re seeing is that he is not up for this." @ezraklein :

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Bijan Salehizadeh

@bijans

1 month

Transformational.

Sek Kathiresan MD

@skathire

1 month

Maybe the eternal search for an effective HFpEF med is finally over? Amazing! Another win for GLP-1 receptor agonists, now in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF)

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@bijans

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West Virginia - state gov staunchly anti-immigration and with lowest rate of foreign born population, lowest rate of labor force participation, and highest number of open jobs and nearly oldest US population - can’t find workers for critical roles. “eldercare is performed

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Bijan Salehizadeh

@bijans

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My NYC question of the day / why put all these cops in subway if they literally just open the exit door for dozens of people to evade the fare and look the other way while others jump and crawl under the turnstiles? Just high priced security theater, I assume? Solves nothing.

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@bijans

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The question for United today (earnings call and Capitol Hill) is what is their plan to deal with the imminent release of 4 TB of detailed patient records? This is a national security threat, no?

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Bijan Salehizadeh

@bijans

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@zachweinberg Agreed. Playing to his base or so he thinks in an election year. There’s no way this has 60 senate votes.

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Bijan Salehizadeh

@bijans

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Would be great if the 100 law firm email updates on non-competes I will get in the next week coordinated. Would save so many associate hours.

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Bijan Salehizadeh

@bijans

1 month

Important paper that documents with data the fact that strategic acquirors have not historically bought outpatient doctor roll-ups. It has been and will remain a PE sponsor to sponsor trade. It's one of *many* reasons why aggregating physician practices is not a sound long term

Yashaswini Singh, PhD

@ysingh_hopkins

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📢New paper alert! PE firms invest in physician practices to generate outsized returns on exit. But what does exit look like? Over what timeline? Measuring this activity has been difficult due to no transparency. My paper fills these gaps.

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Bijan Salehizadeh

@bijans

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If you love Bayesian analysis and love the idea of using that framework to study whether COVID was lab-leak or zoonosis, and you have an hour free to read this, please do. Fascinating. I think we've sadly reached the death of reason, BTW

Practically-A-Book Review: Rootclaim $100,000 Lab Leak Debate

I watched 15 hours of COVID origins arguments so you don't have to - but you should!

www.astralcodexten.com

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Bijan Salehizadeh

@bijans

3 months

New CA bill being debated: would require PE funds to receive consent from the CA AG prior to acquiring or affiliating with healthcare facilities or providers. Would also prohibit PE from entering into certain management services arrangements with physicians or psychiatry

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Bijan Salehizadeh

@bijans

4 months

Not good. Broad daylight shooting in DuPont circle. Plus two armed carjackings yesterday around 5p-7p (one victim shot dead; another wounded badly).

Alan Henney

@alanhenney

4 months

DUPONT CIRCLE SHOOTING--- Connecticut Ave at Q St NW DC. Man shot in shoulder. Police looking for SUV that fled scene. #DupontCircleDC

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