Anthony DiGiorgio, DO, MHA
@DrDiGiorgio
Neurosurgeon and Health Policy Wonk. Views my own. Traumatic Brain Injury | Spinal Cord Injury | Medicaid Policy
This is why I wasn't as "doom and gloom" about Medicaid reforms. At the end of the day, this may look like fewer people getting coverage, but we are just fixing the bureaucratic mess. If, in the end, this makes Medicaid more able to focus on the beneficiaries it was meant to…
The government has now found that up to 2.8 million Americans are enrolled in two separate health plans underwritten by taxpayers. wsj.com/opinion/meet-t…
Why do I consider myself more of a conservative than libertarian? Exhibit A: online gambling.
Just a few years ago, placing a (legal) bet on sports typically meant booking a flight to Vegas. Today, it’s often as easy as picking up your phone. Business is booming … but at what cost? Our new video considers the arguments.
The elite research university: Where the Vice Dean of Nothing makes three times what you do and runs the “Office of Scientific Excellence” with no science inside.
He’s eliminating the 340B program?
🚨BREAKING: President Trump just announced he's reducing drug prices by over 1,000%. "We will have reduced drugs prices by a 1000%, 1100, 1200, 1300, 1400… Not 30 or 50%." God bless President Trump!
100 percent chance this is a lie
“They were not comfortable treating me because I am an unwed mother and that goes against their Christian values.” At a recent town hall in Jonesborough, Tennessee, a woman said her OB-GYN refused to provide prenatal care because she isn’t married.
“What is chilling here is that the AMA presents itself as an organization that protects physicians from being bullied by large organizations. That presentation is false. In reality, the AMA provided a roadmap for large organizations on how to prevail against individual physicians…
The @AmerMedicalAssn has provided the legal reasoning for denying @ScottAtlas_IT due process rights I was forced out of my position at @JAMA_current by the @AmerMedicalAssn with no reason given for this action. It was done on a weekend with no notice-I was told on a Sunday that…
I was within and tried very hard to make things work at JAMA and the AMA. The thanks I got was summarized in this post: x.com/ehlJAMA/status…
The @AmerMedicalAssn has provided the legal reasoning for denying @ScottAtlas_IT due process rights I was forced out of my position at @JAMA_current by the @AmerMedicalAssn with no reason given for this action. It was done on a weekend with no notice-I was told on a Sunday that…
Like it or not, the AMA is perceived as speaking for physicians. We can’t ignore it. If you feel that the AMA doesn’t speak for you, which many clearly feel that way with such low membership numbers, then the only way to change it is from within.
When the ACA was being crafted, the physician community wanted medical malpractice to be addressed. That was their number one priority. It was also the first thing taken off the table as the legislation was crafted. Hospitals, Pharma and the legal community got everything they…
A 2020 paper showed that of 500 randomized controlled trials analyzed, half contained fake data and a quarter were purely fabricated ("zombie trials"). These are the "gold-standard" studies on which clinical guidelines are formulated. Medical science is infested by fraud.
Life employed by a big hospital system means relinquishing all control over your clinic. Administrators will put up all sorts of roadblocks for finishing clinic while simultaneously removing resources. There are clinics where the doctors lack working keyboards and have to pay…
The recent BBB accomplished something good... It finally clarified that people can use HSA $$ to pay for DPC
Physicians sealed their fate when they agreed to bill govt and insurance for services Time to go back to the old way. Bill the customer for the service Direct Care is better, more affordable, more accessible care
Ah, yes, the federal moratorium on physician-owned hospitals. Because nothing says “healthcare reform” like telling physicians not to build hospitals. Imagine this pitch: “Okay, folks, here’s the plan: We’re gonna take the people who treat patients, who know how hospitals should…
People who want M4A are the same people who have not worked with the Medicare system. You want the most convoluted, backwards, most red-tape bullshit system? Look at Medicare Part D and the 'coverage gap' or even enrollment.
Medicare for all could reduce federal spending on healthcare, but you wouldn’t like the results. It would require severe rationing. You’d need to cut utilization, so wait times for things like MRI and surgery would go through the roof. We see this in Canada and the UK. It…
Universal healthcare with Medicare for All would cut federal healthcare spending by $650 billion per year. Our taxes would still fund it, but we’d spend less.
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Prior auth is the scam that keeps on paying. In this week’s Doctor’s Lounge, we talk surgical emergencies delayed by bureaucracy, Ai algorithms denying care, and why 66% of employers could kill prior auth, but don’t. We also ask the uncomfortable question: Did the previous…