Michael Liu, MD, MPhil
@LiuMichaelMD
resident physician @BrighamMedRes | alum @harvardmed @harvard @rhodes_trust | he/him
1/ Will @CMSGov's new Health Equity Adjustment finally help address the regressive nature of value-based 💰 programs? In @JAMA_current, we find that safety-net and ⬆️ proportion Black hospitals stand to benefit the most from this policy change. Link: jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…
An honor to contribute to the inaugural issue of the @TheLancet Primary Care 🩺! We propose necessary reform across the continuum of undergraduate medical education 🧑🎓🏫 to help address the growing primary care workforce crisis. Open Access Link: thelancet.com/journals/lanpr…
CV procedures are increasingly migrating into non-hospital procedural centers. What is driving this shift? What are the implications for care quality and access? We address these questions and more below. With this inimitable team @rwyeh @rkwadhera @enricoferroMD
CV care shifting to nonhospital settings presents an important opportunity to assess & improve care access, quality & patient experience, but will require a concerted effort to advance registry data collection @katerinadangas @rwyeh et al in @JACCJournals sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
A new study revealed a striking increase in #obesity in Black youth between 2011 and 2023, with obesity rates rising from 22.4% to 35.8%. The authors say #PublicHealth and policy interventions are urgently needed to prevent and manage the rising tide of childhood obesity among…
Tailored efforts to address social needs (e.g., 🏘️ insecurity) are needed given recent ⬇️ in policy support. In @AnnalsofIM, we offer a "precision social care delivery" framework to help deliver the right intervention to the right patient at the right time acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/AN…
In @JACCJournals, we find that heart failure outcomes didn't change after hospitals were acquired by private equity, despite admitting ⬇️ risk patients & ⬆ cardiac procedures. Transfer-outs doubled for Black adults Presented at #ARM25 @danielyjohnson bit.ly/43Z3NDS
In @JACCJournals, we find that after private equity firms acquired hospitals, clinical risk ⬇️ & catheterizations ⬆️ among patients w/ heart failure, but outcomes didn't improve Big thanks to @rkwadhera & team @LiuMichaelMD @vicky_bartlett @AndrewOseran jacc.org/doi/full/10.10…
Important new work in @JAMAHealthForum led by @sungchul_p + @rkwadhera showing ⬇️mental health service use and ⬆️acute care use among🧓adults w/ psychological distress after Medicare eligibility at age 65 - highlighting program gaps in mental health care: jamanetwork.com/journals/jama-…
1/ In new work published in @JournalGIM, we found that past-year opioid mortality declined nationally in 2023––however, this masked a 14.1% increase in opioid-related overdoses in the western US. Full text: rdcu.be/enee4
After the end of emergency allotments, there were increases in food insecurity and poor physical health days among SNAP participants. ja.ma/3S35f2q @rkwadhera
Congress has proposed deep cuts to SNAP, which provides food benefits to >40 million Americans Our new @JAMA_current study finds that ⬇️SNAP benefits not only ⬆️ food insecurity, but also leads to significant ⬆️ poor physical health @SmithBIDMC jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…
Our new @JAMA_current study finds that the end of the largest-ever increase in SNAP benefits led to a rapid ⬆️ in food insecurity and poor physical health Grateful to lead this with @LiuMichaelON under 🌟 mentor @rkwadhera and team @DrBleich @prihatha @CamillaPosson @joefigs2