Ryan Kandrack

@godofprompt GEMINI

Gemini is insanely powerful. Most people use it like ChatGPT and completely miss the point. I built a Gemini Mastery Guide that shows: → What Gemini is actually good at → How to use it differently → Where it outperforms other models I’m giving it away for free. Comment “GEMINI” and I’ll DM it. (Must be following)

@godofprompt Claude

Claude is the most powerful AI chatbot in the world. But most people don’t know how to use it properly. That’s why we built the 'Claude Mastery Guide' a simple, powerful resource to help you prompt like a pro. Like + comment “Claude” and I’ll DM you the doc link.

Excited to announce the Aledade Policy Institute. Long way from 2015 when the policy team was half of my time while I also ran an ACO while doing my best impression of a data analyst, compliance officer, contract negotiator, and network developer. aledade.com/newsroom/aleda…

10 years ago, @AledadeACO was founded w a vision to do good for patients, for practices and for society (We believed that mission would also make us a great place to work for purpose-driven ppl) I'm excited to share our 1st Public Benefit Report! aledade.com/wp-content/upl…

@bjdickmayhew Congrats, Dave!!

In their new Forefront article, Gui Woolston and Amy Finkelstein of @AledadeACO and @MIT call on Medicaid programs across the country to take advantage of opportunities to pursue test-and-learn approaches through randomized evaluations. bit.ly/3XXEMr6

It's well known that lower income people tend to suffer much worse health. Is poverty at the heart of this disparity, and, if so, could a large cash transfer help close this gap? We examine an RCT that provided 1000 low income participants $1000/month for 3 years. We find…

Ever wonder why your insurer charges a copay for statins (and other high-value meds)? Don’t they want to prevent heart attacks, strokes, etc? Copays never made sense to me. In this new paper in @QJEHarvard, we show copays kill. 🧵 tinyurl.com/nhk4v93f

1/ If you wanted to craft a @CMSinnovates model with the best chance of improving care and reducing cost, this would be it. CMS nails it with the ACO PC Flex Mode a 🧵

1/ The Change Healthcare cyber attacks have created perilous liquidity challenges for a substantial portion of US medical practices This is not fine We @AledadeACO are going to do whatever we can to help our affected partner practices- announcing $100M in advance payments today

@NateApathy @UMDPublicHealth Congratulations!!

all righty, time for an update... I'm thrilled to announce that I've joined the University of Maryland @UMDPublicHealth as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Policy & Management! Really excited to join this stellar faculty! new email is nca at umd dot edu.

CMS is reviewing quality measures in its important Universal Measures initiative. In this article, we identify MA Star measures that should be retired to make quality measurement more consistent and meaningful across programs. healthaffairs.org/content/forefr…

Who owns your doctor’s office? In our op-ed for @thehill, @CM_Whaley and I discuss what’s driving doctors to sell independent practices to corporate investors like private equity. We offer paths forward.

A hospital mega-merger failed to produce benefits even as practices inside the organizations changed. Just Accepted by Martin Gaynor, Adam Sacarny @asacarny, Raffaella Sadun @raffasadun, Chad Syverson @ChadSyverson, and Shruthi Venkatesh @svenkatesh382. zurl.co/SKTv

Question for R users and #econtwitter -- Is there an R equivalent to Stata's teffects especially for IPWRA?

1/ Final rule for Physician Fee Schedule is out. let's see how the Medicare Shared Savings Program provisions played out compared to the proposed rule. (tl;dr mostly as proposed- incremental improvements to the nation's most mature, and most successful value based program)

1) Our new study, out last week @bmj_latest, tackles racial disparities in low-value care - services that offer patients little to no benefit yet can cause both direct and cascading harms and divert resources from needed care. (1)🧵👇

@MonicaOReillyJ1 @AAN_Nursing @WeederSusa5775 @LusinePoghosy10 @BC_CSON @AANP_NEWS @nnpenetwork @MCNPtweets Congratulations!!!

It was a true honor to be inducted into the @AAN_Nursing last weekend. I am grateful to my sponsors, @WeederSusa5775 & @LusinePoghosy10, @BC_CSON, @AANP_NEWS, @nnpenetwork, @MCNPtweets & my family for the support over the last 5 years. (and yes, the navy was a coincidence!)

I have a new paper w/Ivan Badinski, Amy Finkelstein, & Matt Gentzkow! We use a "movers" design to study the role of physician practice intensity for well-documented geographic variation in healthcare spending Punchline? Doctor sorting matters a lot! dropbox.com/scl/fi/s3tcipj…

In my latest @forbeshealth blog, I share why every healthcare organization should employ (or partner with) health services researchers. Cc: @DrSimpsonHSR @AmolNavathe @ChrisWorsham @AnupamBJena forbes.com/sites/sachinja…