Alex Philips

In sum: “Can we preserve the broad goals of preclerkship medical education while supporting medical students in a decision they have already made to learn on their own time? We believe the answer is yes.” npr.org/sections/healt… Our @NPR opinion piece takeaways🧵

Wrapping up @CAHPR_BrownSPH after a great year! Thanks to my PIs @CM_Whaley and @ysingh_phd and to my mentors @djmeyers2 , @Andy_Ryan_dydx , @ibwilson_health And to the best co-RAs @meehirdixit @gero5 Onwards to my last year of med school before applying for residency!

The modern economic case for public provision is not about public goods or market failures or externalities. It is about what can and can't be achieved by contracting.

Medicare Advantage plans — which cover more than 50% of Medicare beneficiaries — are abusing the payment system to overcharge the government by billions every year. A new tool from @Brown_SPH shows how plan coding practices drive excess payments: medicoding.org

Had a great time presenting research from this past year @AcademyHealth #ARM25 !! Pic creds @meehirdixit @CAHPR_BrownSPH

📰 Another price variation letter out last week in @AnnalsofEM ! annemergmed.com/article/S0196-… @CM_Whaley and I once again find notable price variation for ED eval across commercial payers and state. Which is particularly important since E&M in the ED is unpredictable/non-shoppable.

Important perspective by @AlexPPhilips, MD’26, in @JAMA_current on how incentive structures sideline health policy education in med school. He argues that to reform health systems, students need to understand what sustains the status quo. Check it out: jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

Great work by @AlexPPhilips MD’26 and @VikneshKasthuri MD’25 on the growing influence of private equity in medicine—and what it means for medical trainees.

Check out this important piece on the implications of growing private equity in health care on medical trainees led by @BrownMedicine superstar @AlexPPhilips

📰Health Affairs Forefront piece out today! Sudden ownership changes, faculty turnover, and program closures due to private equity create instability in medical training. Thanks to @ysingh_phd @CAHPR_BrownSPH for her input during the drafting process @Brown_SPH @BrownMedicine

Incredible article! So proud of @AlexPPhilips for shedding light on such an important topic. Medical trainees are catapulted into a world where they lack fundamental knowledge of health policy. We need room for this

#MedicalEducation LTE out today! In reply to @AtulGroverMD 'We may benefit from approaching the challenge of teaching health policy to medical trainees as we approach health system reform itself—by understanding the incentives maintaining the status quo' jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…