Seth A. Berkowitz

Advance copies have arrived Publication day is March 26th! Apparently pre-orders help a lot if so inclined: amazon.com/Equal-Care-Hea…

Thanks @AdamLBeckman for this 🧵 One of the concerns with pay for performance is that it can distribute payment according to population characteristics as opposed to quality of care for a given population Should we worry less about this in attempts to "pay for equity"? Well...

@JMichaelMcW Agree. I think using disparities as a metric of health equity is unhelpful and often avoids focusing on the specific problems causing poor health. Chapter 2 of the below makes this case in depth (and the the rest of book discusses better approach): press.jhu.edu/books/title/12…

Finally, a hard unanswered ? is how to address the troubling disparities evident w/in all plans Simply increasing payment for underserved groups may help some (if surplus is passed thru) But the answer likely lies largely outside of payment policy in general and P4E specifically given the (poor) track record of P4P

Thanks to Dr. Rak and Po for having me on The Health Feast to talk about using social policy to improve population health! #foodinsecurity #healthequity youtu.be/16qzBrZrADM

#AHA24 – Food Is Medicine Moderated GREAT panel w/ Kristina Peterson on Food Is Medicine this morning. @Chanders4 @kevin_volpp @OdomsYoung @SethABerkowitz & Dariush Mozaffarian - inspiring, brilliant. Thx @American_Heart for pilot $$ to help shape future of this initiative!

Advocacy volunteers and global leaders in #foodismedicine including @TWesleyArdoinMD (@LSU), #HealthCareByFood research grantee @SethABerkowitz (@UNC) and #HCxF scientific lead @kevin_volpp explored how behavioral science can improve health outcomes at #AHA24.

A broken system continues to drive people to #poverty just to stay alive. #medicaldebt When Chronic Diseases Come With Chronic Financial Pressure buff.ly/4fiSzhM by @sterncarly96 via @nytimes CC: @SethABerkowitz @DusetzinaS @MikeSteinman

@merlinc2 @motorresx 🙏🙏🙏

@SethABerkowitz @motorresx HIghly rec Seth's book!

I presented a bunch of racial disparities in class this week and asked my students why I was hesitant to do so. They replied (correctly) that racial disparities absent context trigger biological explanations with no insights re: mechanisms. Thank you @merlinc2 & Adolph Reed!

“Consenting to an option within an option set does not just justify the option set.” Whewww

We are hiring an open rank tenure-track clinician-investigator in general internal medicine @UNC_GIM at @UNC_SOM. Please share widely! @UNCDeptMedicine unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/289626

Great write up from @WillBleser and team 👇

🚨🎉Now in Print🎉🚨 Great paper led by @sungchul_p showing that despite Medicare Advantage plans being able to offer food benefits and financial protections, MA beneficiaries do no better, and often worse, on measures of food insecurity and financial burdens:

Happening tomorrow 👇

@jdcmedlock But it’s not actually a problem, right? I mean the numbers go up but you can always afford it (I think you’ve posted on this before): stern.nyu.edu/experience-ste…

A lot of people in the replies of the original post blaming private equity, and that's true to an extent - facing baumol constraints, PE tries to economize on labor and people die. But remove PE and you still don't solve the underlying problem x.com/jdcmedlock/sta…

@DaveBrady72 💯! As you’ve shown in “Poverty, not the Poor” and in your work on single parent penalty, and as this great paper from Parolin shows, lack of income support policy is at the root of these outcomes (and focusing on within-US data not all that helpful): papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

@SethABerkowitz Yeah, I agree. I’m a big Chetty fan. But to focus on social capital and neighborhoods is making stronger causal claims than his evidence yields. And, it dodges the simpler and more important redistribution of $ to poorer kids.

Frustratingly bad analysis about “economic opportunity”. The key reason for poor economic outcomes for so many in the U.S., bad income support policy, goes unmentioned, in favor of using “mobility” policy as an excuse for inequality. nytimes.com/2024/09/20/opi…

@ml_barnett 😭😭😭

🥱Transform primary care with comprehensive teams! 👍Transform primary care with kickbacks to MA plans! justice.gov/opa/pr/oak-str…

UPCOMING SIREN WEBINAR📢 North Carolina's Healthy Opportunity Pilots Evaluation Results 🗓️ Date: Wednesday October 2nd ⏰ Time: 12pm PT / 3pm ET Register here: ucsf.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

@jdcmedlock @JStein_WaPo Deep dive into income support policy and food insecurity risk here: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38156292/

@JStein_WaPo 🤔

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