Farzad Mostashari
@Farzad_MD
Founder, Aledade Former National Coordinator for Health IT NYC Health Dept/ CDC EIS Officer views my own
1/ Would you want your employees, your customers, your partners, and government regulators to hear what you tell investors? It's not done! Different audiences will understand and react to the same thing very differently I'm going to take that risk today, show you my deck 😱🙏
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Getting reliable data on hospital/physician ownership is tricky, so we trained a machine learning algorithm to read truth using a range of CMS data, tax data, news clippings, and third party data sources. Then we ran and audited a training sample and got it right approximately…
9/ Most urgently, what is to be done on the "Accountable Care Prospective Trend"? (dear reader, it is neither Accountable, Prospective, nor Trend) If you are deciding between two paths (guardrails or trashcan), or even if you don't know what exactly to propose, ASK FOR COMMENT
7/ To be clear these are fundamental, long-overdue reforms that move the cheese of powerful interests There will be strong pushback from incumbents If we support these, we need to say so, and why Administrative Procedures are here to give everyone a voice, if they exercise it!
13/ It is now urgent for CMS to open the door outside of the reg process for broad and transparent input, convening, and discussion of the path forward Either next year's NPRM proposes clear path by tweaking current parameters, or we need an off-cycle MSSP reg for 2027 new model