@florianederer I watch the dialysis industry closely 😉
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Ryan McDevitt
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Ryan McDevitt
@ryanmcdevitt
Professor of Economics @WashUOlin & School of Public Health
Katılım Şubat 2009
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It will be interesting to see the broader effects of advanced GLP-1s.
So far, quasi-experimental evidence (from 1.4 million VA patients) finds large improvements in weight loss and glycemic control, but *no* average reductions in ER use or non-GLP-1 medical spending.
Max Marchione@maxmarchione
Retatrutide phase 3 obesity trial just came out and the results are genuinely insane: - 28.3% bodyweight lost on 12mg over 80 weeks - 70.3 pounds on avg. or 31.9 kg - 45.3% of patients hit 30%+ weight loss (this is bariatric surgery territory) - 30.3% weight loss (85 lbs) at 104 weeks in higher-BMI patients - 65.3% of 12mg patients dropped below the obesity BMI threshold - 19% loss on 4mg over 80 weeks (47.2 lbs) with fewer dropouts than placebo (4.1% vs 4.9%) - significant drops in blood pressure, triglycerides, non-HDL cholesterol, waist circumference, and hsCRP - no cardiac or liver signals Retatrutide is going to completely overshadow tirzepatide and semaglutide, and take the throne as the best-selling drug of all time.
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Featured in the latest Digest: Price Competition and Fraud Among Medicare Equipment Suppliers
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Congratulations to my colleague @jetson_econ for being named one of the Best 40 Under 40 business school professors!
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Andrew Bursky and his wife pledged $200 million through their family foundation to name a newly created school of public health at Washington University in St. Louis. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Many university administrations in the US are in denial. They are shrinking faculty size and adding new layers of administration. The AI Era requires precisely the opposite.
SamuelGoldman@SWGoldman
A surprising number of people refuse to understand that idealized Oxbridge-style teaching and exams are incompatible with the mass higher ed that Americans invented and now take for granted.
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Among traditional #Medicare beneficiaries, private equity acquisition of primary care practices was not associated with changes in all-cause or preventable hospitalizations, but modestly reduced emergency department visits.
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@florianederer @andreamatranga @billyisapilgrim Let's be clear that the best and worst skill of economists is that absolutely nothing, including donor money, changes our minds.
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These data are flawed and incomplete. Better to use the validated, comprehensive dataset from @sungilkim94 et al. here:
academic.oup.com/healthaffairss…
github.com/sungilkim94/Ki…
Several replications currently in the works —@ambarlaforgia and I highlight some of the major flaws in the current literature here:
journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/how-sh…
Private Equity Stakeholder Project@PEstakeholder
Find out which hospitals in the US are owned by private equity here: pestakeholder.org/pesp-private-e…
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Watch Sabastian Sawe 🇰🇪 run 1:59:30 to destroy the Marathon World Record in London!!🤯🔥
First man ever to break 2 hours in a marathon.
2. Yomif Kejelcha 🇪🇹 1:59:41
3. Jacob Kiplimo 🇺🇬 2:00:28
All under the previous World Record.
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@UMichTrack earns the College Track Performance of the Day presented by @on_running after shattering one of the oldest meet records in their Men’s 4x800 Championship of America victory 😤
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Brendan Herger cracks the top-10 all-time NCAA performers list in the 1500m and he’s only a sophomore! 🤯 #GoBlue〽️
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Investigating how the gender mix of expert teams affects performance during childbirth care finds that female-only teams achieved the best maternal outcomes, from @ambarlaforgia and @vini_singh_ nber.org/papers/w35084
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Trent McFarland and Brendan Herger smashed Kevin Sullivan’s 1,500m record from 1997 this weekend at the Wake Forest Invitational!
McFarland holds the new program record 💨 #GoBlue〽️
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With a PR of 3:34.06 in the 1,500m, Brendan Herger has the No. 2 time on the program performers list! #GoBlue〽️
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Jetson Leder-Luis Assistant Professor of Markets, Public Policy, and Law at Questrom School of Business has been appointed Deputy Executive Director of the newly established White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud.
Read here: spr.ly/6014B6xn2E
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The biggest hurdle to more high-quality reporting and research on PE in healthcare is that carefully identifying acquisitions is a ton of work. This paper provides a tremendous public resource by making the acquisitions they identified (and their process) publicly available.
Sungil Kim@sungilkim94
I’m excited to share our new paper (Editor’s Choice) in Health Affairs Scholar on private equity acquisitions of US hospitals. We address a core limitation in the literature: the lack of a standardized, validated dataset of PE transactions. Key findings: • We identify 141 unique PE deals involving 555 short-term acute care hospitals (across 721 hospital–deal observations), which is more than have ever been reported before. • Existing commercial databases differ substantially in deal coverage, deal type, and reporting level. • Reliance on a single source can omit valid deals and produce biased or incomplete analytic samples. • Linking transactions to stable hospital identifiers requires substantial manual verification due to system-level deals, inconsistent reporting, and identifier changes over time. Overall, accurate study of PE ownership in hospitals requires multi-source data construction, transparent validation, and careful linkage to stable identifiers; many published studies inadvertently miss a large number of deals. We make the data and code publicly available to support more accurate, transparent, and replicable research: - Paper: academic.oup.com/healthaffairss… - Data & code: github.com/sungilkim94/Ki… Special thanks to my incredible co-authors for this collaboration: Mark Naslund, Sally Wang, Abid Hasan, Elijah Huang, Hyong-gu Hwang, @ambarlaforgia, @rileyleague, @ryanmcdevitt, and Kelly Kaili Yang
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Check out our new paper on PE hospital acquisitions with all data publicly posted — amazing effort by a team spread across five universities led by Sungil Kim, who is amazing and will be on the market in the fall!
Sungil Kim@sungilkim94
I’m excited to share our new paper (Editor’s Choice) in Health Affairs Scholar on private equity acquisitions of US hospitals. We address a core limitation in the literature: the lack of a standardized, validated dataset of PE transactions. Key findings: • We identify 141 unique PE deals involving 555 short-term acute care hospitals (across 721 hospital–deal observations), which is more than have ever been reported before. • Existing commercial databases differ substantially in deal coverage, deal type, and reporting level. • Reliance on a single source can omit valid deals and produce biased or incomplete analytic samples. • Linking transactions to stable hospital identifiers requires substantial manual verification due to system-level deals, inconsistent reporting, and identifier changes over time. Overall, accurate study of PE ownership in hospitals requires multi-source data construction, transparent validation, and careful linkage to stable identifiers; many published studies inadvertently miss a large number of deals. We make the data and code publicly available to support more accurate, transparent, and replicable research: - Paper: academic.oup.com/healthaffairss… - Data & code: github.com/sungilkim94/Ki… Special thanks to my incredible co-authors for this collaboration: Mark Naslund, Sally Wang, Abid Hasan, Elijah Huang, Hyong-gu Hwang, @ambarlaforgia, @rileyleague, @ryanmcdevitt, and Kelly Kaili Yang
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