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...
New, clever experiment with a powerful warning–Racial health disparities in Medicaid plans can merely reflect selection bias, rather than true differences in insurance plan performance.
By @jwswallace, Chima D. Ndumele, @JMichaelMcW & team
#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!
🚨🎉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:
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/opini…
Substantial increase in #foodinsecurity in 2023, despite strong macroeconomic conditions during the year. Likely related to wind-down of welfare state expansions in place in 2020 and 2021.
ers.usda.gov/publications/pu…
Since food insecurity principally occurs in households with members who are children, older adults, experienced job loss, and/or have work limiting disability, rely on market income distribution mechanisms has limited scope for improving food security.
updated tutorial on Longitudinal Modified Treatment Policies is now on arxiv!
🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2304.09460v3
for those at ACIC, i'll be hanging out by this poster today from 5-6:30pm and would love to chat about LMTPs, methodology tutorials, etc.