Professor, Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School -- health economics, aging, long-term care, post-acute care

Joined January 2017
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Incredibly honored and excited to be elected to the National Academy of Medicine class of 2023
Congratulations and welcome to the 100 new members elected today to the National Academy of Medicine! #NAMmtg nam.edu/national-academy-of-…
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More immigration into the US raises the number of health care workers and saves the lives of older Americans, from @DavidCGrabowski, Jonathan Gruber, and @mcgarrybe nber.org/papers/w34791
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SNF capacity is the bottleneck that keeps people waiting in ER hallways and make-shift hospital rooms. SNF beds are crucial to our health system. Since 2020, capacity is down 5%, in part due to staffing shortages. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam… @McGarryBE @ashdgandhi @DavidCGrabowski
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Medicaid spend-downs are one of the parts of US medicine that are so absurd & cruel they are hard to explain to people outside the field. I have even struggled to convince people this is real because there's so little published on it. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam…
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Managed care plans for nursing home residents, known as Institutional Special Needs Plans, reduce costly hospitalizations by about 30 percent, from Momotazur Rahman, @mcgarrybe, Elizabeth M. White, @DavidCGrabowski, and @cyruskosar nber.org/papers/w34235
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Care workers make all other work possible, and as @davidcgrabowski said, "Foreign-born workers are a big part of that backbone. Without them, we’d have huge staffing shortfalls and individuals’ quality of care and quality of life would be worse." amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/01/21/e…
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"Caregivers are the backbone of long-term care , and foreign-born workers are a big part of that backbone. Without them, we'd have huge staffing shortfalls and individuals' quality of care and qualify of life would be worse." cnn.com/2025/01/21/economy/n…
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Perspective by Madeline R. Sterling, MD, MPH (@mad_sters), and @DavidCGrabowski, PhD: Covering Long-Term Care at Home? Implications of a New Proposal for Expanding Medicare nej.md/4hrJl4j #HealthPolicy
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Kamala Harris’s proposal for expanding Medicare to cover long-term care at home is a hopeful sign for millions of Americans, though key questions remain about eligibility, coverage, payments, and financing. Read the full Perspective: nej.md/4hrJl4j
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Older Americans are exposed to considerable financial risk from long-term care needs. @ipogadog and @chvanhoutven make the case for expanding coverage of paid home care through Medicare. brookings.edu/articles/expan…
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Such an important piece from @mad_sters and @DavidCGrabowski on VP Harris’ policy proposal to expand Medicare to cover LTC at home!
New @NEJM Perspective piece on VP Harris' policy proposal to "Expand Medicare to Cover Long-term Care at Home." @DavidCGrabowski and I discuss how this could be a game-changer for many Americans, as well some key questions that will need to be answered. nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NE…
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New @NEJM Perspective piece on VP Harris' policy proposal to "Expand Medicare to Cover Long-term Care at Home." @DavidCGrabowski and I discuss how this could be a game-changer for many Americans, as well some key questions that will need to be answered. nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NE…
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Definitely agreed with @DavidCGrabowski on this one! Happy to finally see home care in the news as part of @KamalaHarris’ new #Medicare proposal
Our co-director @doc_doc_pru was interviewed for this @politico article about @KamalaHarris’ proposed plan for Home Care under the #Medicare benefit: subscriber.politicopro.com/a…
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Expanding Medicare to cover the cost of long-term care at home would be a HUGE development. Great quote: “There isn’t a lot in the world of health policy that does this well with such a broad swath of the electorate.” @CitizenCohn huffpost.com/entry/kamala-ha…
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Quote above from @mattbc, sorry for any confusion!
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🚨NEW @Health_Affairs paper with @amanda_c_chen @josephhnath Enrollment in Medicare Advantage (MA) Institutional Special Needs Plans (I-SNPs) has grown dramatically among long-stay nursing home residents. However, availabiltiy is limited in many US markets healthaffairs.org/doi/abs/10…
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Although I-SNPs have no formal affiliation with Medicaid, 94% of I-SNP enrollee were duallly eligible for Medicaid and Medicare. 5/
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More research is needed to understand why I-SNPs enter certain markets and why dual-eligible long-stay nursing home residents choose to enroll in them; to assess I-SNP enrollment barriers; and to compare hospital admission rates & quality outcomes by I-SNP enrollment status. END/
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