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jeremysussman.bsky.social @jeremysussman.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Brief thread describing our paper on the new cholesterol guidelines. Take-home: The new guidelines increase the number of American's recommended statins by almost a third, with over half of all American adults now recommended statins. @timandersonmd.bsky.social

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John Z. Ayanian, MD, MPP @ihpidirector.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Studying how specialty society guideline updates will affect prescribing that mainly occurs in #primarycare settings is an important goal of health services research. Take, for example, these new findings by IHPI member Jeremy Sussman & colleagues at Pitt, published in @jama.com: michmed.org/zdRjw

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More than half of U.S. adults now qualify for statins under new guidelines

Updated recommendations for cholesterol-lowering therapy mean 21.5 million more people are eligible based on long-term risk for heart attack and stroke

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Nora Verlaine @noraverlaine.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

‼️ Here are our key results: By 7 years after enrollment, relative to before enrollment, HMP enrollees had average reductions of nearly $1000 in medical debt in collections (75% relative reduction) and rates of subprime credit score went down by 25 percentage points (30-50% relative reduction) ‼️ 5/n

Post-enrollment event study coefficients from our analysis showing declines in medical debt in collections and rates of subprime credit score after enrollment in Michigan Medicaid expansion plan

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Nora Verlaine @noraverlaine.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

🚨🚨🚨 Tl; dr: Enrollment in Medicaid expansion is associated with dramatic long-term improvements in credit score and reductions in medical debt sent to collections! Published today in @jamanetworkopen.com (full paper is linked below) Read on for more details 1/n www.uofmhealth.org/health-lab/m...

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Medicaid expansion helped enrollees’ long term financial health, study finds

Now, a new University of Michigan study shows that enrolling also had a positive and long-lasting impact on the financial health of its first enrollees.

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UM SRC @um-src.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

UM Board of Regents has honored Kenneth M. Langa with a Distinguished University Professorship. His research shapes our understanding of #aging, #CognitiveImpairment & #dementia. He is co-director of the NIH-funded #HealthAndRetirementStudy, the largest, most influential study of aging in the U.S.

Congratulatory announcement for Kenneth M. Langa with a portrait and University of Michigan logos.
Text: CONGRATULATIONS
Kenneth M. Langa
Cyrus Sturgis Research Professor of Internal Medicine, Professor of Internal Medicine, Research Professor, Institute of Gerontology, Medical School, Research Professor, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research and Professor of Health Management and Policy, School of Public Health
Regula Herzog Distinguished University Professor of Internal Medicine and Survey Research
University of Michigan Board of Regents
October 17, 2025
ISR Survey Research Center UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

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Michel Nivard @michelnivard.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Meta’s income statement (via @simongerman600.bsky.social), their R&D budget, for VR glasses, the metaverse, and to show you 0.2% more effective adds, is nearly equal to the NIH budget…

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kgoldmd.bsky.social @kgoldmd.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Our new research: primary care docs manage 15 portal messages/tasks for every hour of patient facing care. 17/hr for family med docs/ doi.org/10.1007/s116... #medsky #primarycare #familymedicine

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In-Basket Message Volume in Primary Care: A Cross-sectional Analysis by Gender and Specialty - Journal of General Internal Medicine

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Marina Arvanitis @arvanitopoula.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Lincare Made Billions While Repeatedly Defrauding Medicare. Feds Did Little To Rein It In. www.propublica.org/article/linc...

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/01/2025

Lincare is paid to rent oxygen equipment to patients, with HHS covering most of the monthly bills. But those rental fees often add up to many times what it would cost simply to buy the equipment. (Published Nov. 2024) By @peterelkind.bsky.social

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Lincare Made Billions While Repeatedly Defrauding Medicare. Feds Did Little To Rein It In.

Lincare, the nation’s largest distributor of home oxygen equipment, has repeatedly violated Medicare rules and probation agreements, victimizing ailing patients and costing taxpayers huge sums. The…

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Daniel P. Moriarity @dpmoriarity.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

"A study of federally funded research projects in the United States estimated that principal investigators spend on average about 45% of their time on administrative activities related to applying for and managing projects rather than conducting active research" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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jeremysussman.bsky.social @jeremysussman.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Envisioning a class action suit with everyone who paid for that thing.

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NBER @nber.org · 28/12/2024

New tools for dynamic-treatment effect estimation with instrumental variables show the effects of revascularization on quality of life are larger and more persistent than conventional analyses suggest, from Angrist, Ferman, Gao, Hull, Tecchio, Yeh www.nber.org/papers/w33296

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Daniel Martin @fizbin.bsky.social · 22/03/2024

I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases) projects.propublica.org/claimfile/

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Find Out Why Health Insurance Denied Your Claim

You likely have the right to access records that explain why your insurer denied your claim or prior authorization request. Use ProPublica’s free tool to generate a letter requesting your claim file f...

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Irene Chen @irenetrampoline.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

tl;dr Healthcare access disparities cascade through the entire ML pipeline. Check out our working paper here: arxiv.org/pdf/2412.07712

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jeremysussman.bsky.social @jeremysussman.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Is there a future role for primary prevention of HF that differs from what we're already doing to prevent ASCVD? Do different risk scores help us identify it?

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Jack Iwashyna @iwashyna.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

last night, Hallie Prescott had her NEJM review on sepsis released: www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... Today I had the pleasure of giving some remarks on her installation as the Toews Family Legacy Professor at the University of Michigan

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Sepsis and Septic Shock | NEJM

Sepsis is a life-threatening, heterogeneous disorder involving a dysregulated immune response to infection. Research to identify subtypes and targeted therapies for host dysregulation is ongoing.

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jeremysussman.bsky.social @jeremysussman.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Great article on the limitations and harms of recommending lifestyle advice in guidelines that recognizes that lifestyle advice has harms to patient, provider, and system and is almost always less effective than is commonly presented. @vmontori.bsky.social www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...

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jeremysussman.bsky.social @jeremysussman.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

AHA's lipid guidelines do not recommend Lp(a) testing. An AHA Scientific Statement says not yet, but we should rethink it after technical lab issues are worked out. But AHA also releases glossy brochures clearly encouraging use. 🤷

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jeremysussman.bsky.social @jeremysussman.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Pretty sure critical care trials are positive <5% of the time.

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jeremysussman.bsky.social @jeremysussman.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Anyone have a good reason why grants rules would put tight restrictions on how many papers you're allowed to cite? Cutting citations doesn't feel like the best possible use of anyone's time.

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jeremysussman.bsky.social @jeremysussman.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Has anyone seen a description of what “funding riskier bets” looks like in practice? Is it removing prelim data from NIH applications? A strong recommendation to study sections? A change in evaluation criteria?

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Chris Carroll, MD @chriscarrollmd.com · 26/11/2024

But then the pandemic hit. And we sent all those children with asthma home to their supposedly dirty homes. And guess what? Severe asthma WENT AWAY! During quarter 2 2020, when there would typically be 1400 kids in #pedsICU’s around the US, there were 241. 6/17 journal.chestnet.org/article/S001...

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Chris Carroll, MD @chriscarrollmd.com · 26/11/2024

A thread about the pathophysiology of childhood asthma and how the pandemic exposed just how wrong so many of the underlying assumptions were, and how much biases and racism inpacted our understanding. 🧵 1/17

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Robert M Centor MACP @rmcentor.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

We did a podcast on this paper - I highly recommend Annals On Call - The Challenge of Diagnosing Community-Acquired Pneumonia | Annals of Internal Medicine www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...

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Annals On Call - The Challenge of Diagnosing Community-Acquired Pneumonia | Annals of Internal Medicine

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jeremysussman.bsky.social @jeremysussman.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

One more plug for our scientific statement: Primary prevention is the core of medical treatment for heart disease. Primary prevention is provided by primary care. With some support and innovation, primary care could be doing a whole lot more. www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...

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American Heart Association Journals

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jeremysussman.bsky.social @jeremysussman.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

The coming norm where doctors' AI tools create prior auth requests run into insurers' AI tools' prior auth denials will resemble War Games with reinforcement learning done thousands of times daily. I guess better the AI tools do it than the rest of us. kffhealthnews.org/news/podcast...

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Fight Health Insurance — With Help From AI - KFF Health News

Meet the tech worker on a quest to use artificial intelligence to combat denials for coverage from patients’ health plans.

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jeremysussman.bsky.social @jeremysussman.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Excited to see our AHA Statement released! 🆕 AHA statement published on The Role of Primary Care in Achieving Life’s Essential 8. ✍🏼 📷 : Actions and evidence-based strategies to promote Life’s Essential 8 in primary care. Thanks to Maddy Sterling's great leadership, who is sadly not on Bluesky.

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Nora Verlaine @noraverlaine.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Remember, even if the ACA survives, the decision to classify contraception as a preventive service (and thus not subject to copays, deductibles, etc) is ultimately a regulatory determination by HHS that could be reversed in the next administration.

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Jack Iwashyna @iwashyna.bsky.social · 02/11/2024

Current unclear labeling and inadequate testing norms may, I fear, be creating a situation where it is impossible for new entrants to prove superiority Plus three big US firms + GPOs = market failure I found the market info hidden in this article fascinating: www.forbes.com/sites/kerrya...

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Meet The Iranian Immigrant Who Became A Covid MedTech Billionaire

Joe Kiani surmounted overwhelming personal and professional odds to build a better blood oxygen monitoring device. So why should he be afraid to push his scrappy company into consumer electronics, cha...

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Sarah Karlin-Smith @sarahkarlin-smith.bsky.social · 02/10/2024

Blue Shield of California struck an unusual deal to buy a lower-cost version of Humira directly from a manufacturer, bypassing the giant pharmacy benefit managers that normally determine which maker’s drug will go to tens of millions Americans. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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A Free Drug Experiment Bypasses the US Health System’s Secret Fees

A top California health plan is set to offer one of the world’s biggest-selling drugs for free in a bid to show the medicine can reach Americans affordably without going through the middlemen that typ...

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jeremysussman.bsky.social @jeremysussman.bsky.social · 27/09/2024

Submissions to the Learning Health Systems special issue of JGIM should go under "Abstracts Collection" in Editorial Manager. Thanks for submitting!

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jeremysussman.bsky.social @jeremysussman.bsky.social · 05/09/2024

JGIM is having a special issue on Learning Health Systems in General Medicine. Please submit! Also, contact us with questions. Abstracts Due: September 30, 2024 Final Manuscripts Due: December 16, 2024 www.sgim.org/news/call-fo...

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Call for Abstracts for JGIM Special Issue - SGIM

JGIM Special Issue on the Future of Learning Health Systems in General Medicine JGIM and VA HSR Special Issue The Journal of General Internal Medicine (JGIM) and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affair...

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jeremysussman.bsky.social @jeremysussman.bsky.social · 29/05/2024

Patient went into depth about how I needed to check their magnesium at least weekly since when they were hospitalized the inpatient team did it daily. I bit my tongue.

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Jack Iwashyna @iwashyna.bsky.social · 23/05/2024

Wendy Netter Epstein: “ineffective devices provide a false sense that problems have been solved, quelling innovation in necessary areas, and engendering mistrust in the health care system.”

Book text: ineffective devices provide a false sense that problems have been solved, quelling innovation in necessary areas, and engendering mistrust in the health care system.

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jeremysussman.bsky.social @jeremysussman.bsky.social · 19/05/2024

Massive hail at 85 degrees. Physics is wrong.

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