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Zach Levin

@zachlevin.bsky.social
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Economist @ Federal Trade Commission (all opinions my own!) • Passionate about dogs, hospitals, and jorts • 🏳️‍🌈 www.zacharylevin.me

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Zach Levin @zachlevin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
*record scratch* *freeze frame* Yep, that's me. You're probably wondering how I got here.
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Zach Levin @zachlevin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Can't argue with the Pope on this one.
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Zach Levin @zachlevin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The future of healthcare is a Reddit flame war between health insurance AI agents and health system AI agents.
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Zach Levin @zachlevin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Highly recommend both (1) working for my good friend Evan and (2) living in Chicago! ==>
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Zach Levin @zachlevin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Very curious what makes for a .2 bath
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Zach Levin @zachlevin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Alright I give: what’s AI?
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Zach Levin @zachlevin.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
“She had a survivor's instinct and seemed to always know just what to do, just what to say, to make things right...and then she'[d] stick her butt out the car window and moon Kenny Roger's home.” - Jane Fonda on the passing of Dolly
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Zach Levin @zachlevin.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
A cool thing that happened: one of my dissertation chapters has been published! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... tl;dr? Rebuilding a hospital/part of a hospital makes patients significantly happier! But is their care better? Too soon to tell, but rough signals point to no. Short 🧵
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The Impact of Hospital Infrastructure Investment on Quality of Care - Zachary Levin, 2026
Hospitals spend billions of dollars annually on major construction projects and facility upgrades, but limited research to date has examined whether this expend...
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Zach Levin @zachlevin.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
O’Hare is a great airport for when your favorite part of flying is being delayed.
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Zach Levin @zachlevin.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Showing up to my date with a prepackaged salad so he knows I'm brave.
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Zach Levin @zachlevin.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Polls have closed in California which means we're only a few weeks away from knowing the results of today's election.
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Alex Everhart @aoeverhart.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
On Monday the 27th, the AcademyHealth Health Economics Interest Group is hosting a webinar on the non-academic job market for health economist. Hope to see you there! Register here: wustl-hipaa.zoom.us/webinar/regi....
Flyer for "Success Economics Job Market" webinar on April 27, 2026, 3:00pm-4:00pm ET. Speakers are David Mancuso from the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services, Zach Levin from the FTC, Shaun Forbes from Guardant Health, and Linlin Luo from AstraZeneca. 

Webinar description: "Recent PhD graduates in the field of health economics will apply to jobs in many different sectors, both inside and outside of academia. These employers often have different hiring timelines, different processes for interviewing candidates, and different ideas about what makes a successful job candidate. This 1-hour webinar will provide an overview of differences in hiring processes across different industries within the field of health economics, with an emphasis on government and industry jobs. Attendees will gain an understanding of how to be most effective when applying for jobs with different employers."
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Zach Levin @zachlevin.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Help! For the second time this month I've discovered a bee trapped between my window pane and the screen and I really have no idea how this is happening or how to fix it.
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Zach Levin @zachlevin.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Health econ students: a great opportunity to learn about non-academic job opportunities from a group of qualified individuals (and also me for some reason)!
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Thomas Koch @tgkoch.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
I'm happy to share the release of a new BE Economic Issues paper: "An Atlas of US Physician Practice Choice and Firm Structure: 2015-2020, for Selected States from the FTC Physician and Facility Merger Study." www.ftc.gov/reports/atla....
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An Atlas of US Physician Practice Choice and Firm Structure: 2015-2020, for Selected States from the FTC Physician and Facility Merger Study
In this paper, we describe US physician practices using data from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)’s Physician Practice and Healthcare Facility Merger Study.
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Zach Levin @zachlevin.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
(Adding to the The Discourse™ on this article) It's hard not to think about hospitals/health systems transform areas into modern coal/steel "company towns." The example of 50% of a county's workers being employed at Geisinger Health is eye-popping!
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Health Care Has Become the Lifeblood of the Labor Market
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Zach Levin @zachlevin.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Anyone have a good source for how interprovider payment happens in global capitation? For example: if you’re a PCP with Blue Cross HMO global capitation and your patient needs an MRI, how is the reimbursement amount negotiated?
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Zach Levin @zachlevin.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Lola says “give me the treat in your hand already” and also Happy Valentine’s Day!
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Zach Levin @zachlevin.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Rob Reiner will be remembered for his many, many accomplishments but I would be remiss if I didn't point out the time he played a Congressman at an anti-trust hearing!
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Rob Reiner Once Played a Congressman on Television
YouTube video by CyberDurden
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Zach Levin @zachlevin.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Come work with me! #EconJobMarket
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Zach Levin @zachlevin.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Had a claim denied by Aetna but joke’s on them because I’m a health economist on furlough. Bet they’ve never seen an appeal with a “methods” section before.
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Zach Levin @zachlevin.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Time to see my PCP (primary care pastry)
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Zach Levin @zachlevin.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
"Forgive me father, for I have put ketchup on a hot dog"
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Zach Levin @zachlevin.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
A Chicago Pope means we're getting deep dish communion wafers!
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Zach Levin @zachlevin.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
A nice by-product of tariff discourse has been discovering one of my favorite undergrad economics professors is on this site (the incomparably brilliant @kclausing.bsky.social).
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Surprised Face Guy @surprisedface.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
AOL warned us of the dangers of logging on. It would play for us the screams of the damned. But we didn’t listen. We didn’t listen.
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Zach Levin @zachlevin.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Hearing a lot about TikTok lately, thinking of finally downloading it and signing up for an account.
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Adrianna McIntyre @adrianna.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
More detailed list of reconciliation policy options here from Punchbowll (h/t @zachlevin.bsky.social) punchbowl.news/reconciliati... ACA proposals include repealing APTC eligibility for DACA recipients, reintroducing the family glitch, and lifting income-based limits on APTC clawback
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Dr. Kaitlyn M. Sims @kaitsims.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
🚨new paper alert!!!🚨 My newest piece (and first solo-author pub!) is out at the Journal of Criminal Justice! I use daily jail roster data from 20 rural/suburban jails to study the impacts of Illinois' ban on cash bail on actual incarceration patterns. doi.org/10.1016/j.jc...
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Zach Levin @zachlevin.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
It was pretty cool to meet the Big Boss, FTC Chair Khan today!
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Zach Levin @zachlevin.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Belated annual Thanksgiving pumpkin cheesecake post!
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Embarrassing. They're going to feel so stupid in 10 years when nobody's wearing dead salmon hats anymore.
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Orcas start wearing dead salmon hats again after ditching the trend for 37 years
Orcas off the coast of Washington State are balancing dead fish on their heads like it's the 1980s, but researchers still aren't sure why they do it.
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Zach Levin @zachlevin.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
One negative to this app (vs. the old one) is the quasi-LinkedIn vibe. You don’t get the absolutely hilarious, inappropriate, banger thoughts from random people shooting their mouths off about life.
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Zach Levin @zachlevin.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
As a health economist with 25+ insurance plans available to me during open enrollment, I’m almost disappointed to find myself making no changes this year. But like, why order something else off the menu when you’ve got dinosaur chicken nuggets you’re satisfied with?
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Zach Levin @zachlevin.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
I hired a research assistant over the weekend! She’s not great at Stata … much prefers aRf!
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Zach Levin @zachlevin.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Good as Bluesky may be, it’ll never match MySpace circa 2004. Pettily adjusting my Top 8, changing the angsty profile song, and coding up a terrible background color. Life was good.
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