Nishu Uppal
@NishantUppal7
IM resident @BrighamMedRes | Venture Fellow @AmericanCancer | Policy Fellow @OurHealthStudy | Postdoc @bethisraellahey | Alum @HarvardMed, @HarvardHBS, @CWRUBME
Health care is making Americans poorer. In @NEJM, we describe the current burden of medical debt, the history of our health financing system, and solutions to endemic medical debt in the US. nej.md/3P1X2tc 1/10
The true cost of the reconciliation bill will be measured in lives—over 50,000 per year. It’s a predictable result when you cut off insurance to people who are old, poor and sick. @eric_t_roberts and I discuss in @MSNBC @NBCNews @HarvardHPM @PennLDI msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-…
"How Democrats are making health care more affordable" (@TheHillOpinion) trib.al/ZDTptIr
See below for @KedarMate and my thoughts in @thehill on the election and bending the health care cost curve for patients!
NEW in @thehill: @NishantUppal7 and Dr. Mate write about how Democrats are making healthcare more affordable: - Limiting surprise billing for patients - Negotiating drug prices for Medicare patients - Reducing billions of $ of patient medical debt thehill.com/opinion/health…
Last Friday, a judge struck down a CFPB rule that would've removed medical debt from credit reports The decision will reduce credit access while giving debt collectors more leverage It comes exactly a week after Trump signed a law that will kick 16 million off health insurance…
Shocking how bad this bill is: - 17 million would lose health care - 30% higher electricity costs - Millions of manufacturing and construction jobs destroyed - Biggest ever cut in food assistance for families, kids, veterans - $4 trillion in deficits - $1 trillion in…
Honored to speak on medical debt with @jingxuan_zhao, Zhiyuan Zheng, Kyle Moon @AcademyHealth #ARM with a great discussion led by Nora Becker Thankful to @BrighamMedRes, @bethisraellahey and mentor @benjamesMD for allowing me to attend!
.@_aarushib, lead CRC of @ourhealthstudy, presenting on the representation of South Asian religion-language-regional identities (509 unique groups) amongst OurHealth participants!! #ACC25
Very excited that our lab’s work was recognized as the Best Clinical Oral Presentation at the 14th Annual Harvard Surgery Research Day!😁 So happy to be surrounded by brilliant and kind colleagues. Excited for what’s ahead! @BIDMCSurgery @BIDMC_Research @BIDMC_CancerCtr
South Asians face a higher risk of heart disease, often going unnoticed. Mass General researchers are studying genetics to uncover why—and how to prevent early deaths. Learn more about this vital work with @NPR. spklr.io/60142UGu #HeartMonth
So fantastic that @NPR featured the unexplained troublingly high rates of heart disease among S Asian individuals, and our research efforts @ourhealthstudy to address these issues! npr.org/2025/02/11/nx-…
Was an honor to co-present at @BIDMCSurgery Grand Rounds this week on the financial burden faced by cancer patients, led by @benjamesMD and starring @GomezJorgeMD and Ana Bogdanovski
They are your neighbors—your nanny, the worker who harvested the strawberries on your table, the roofer who repaired your home, the cleaner who ensured your streets were clean after the snowstorm. They’ve paid taxes. They’re over 65. And there will be about 1 million of them by…
New in @JAMAPsych on private equity ownership of opioid treatment centers (fka methadone clinics) in US Led by David Zhu, we report on prevalence, geographic distribution, market concentration, and potentially strategic targeting of clinics by PE firms for acquisition. 1/x
Some news for my colleagues ... please RT and share!! bostonglobe.com/2024/11/18/bus…
Kicking off an “arresting” session at #AHA24 - Robert Ariss from @BrighamWomens @TIMIStudyGroup discussing evolutionary trends in TTM following cardiac arrest @3CPRCouncil @CCCTNetwork
Among British S Asians (individuals ancestrally from Bangladesh & Pakistan living in East London), a missense variant in PIEZO1 (MAF 3.9%, but very rare in non-SAS) leads to lower HgA1c & thus delayed T2D diagnosis nature.com/articles/s4146… @NatureComms
Had an amazing time at #ACSCC2024 presenting our lab’s work on objective measures of the financial impact of a cancer diagnosis 🎗️ @AmCollSurgeons @BIDMC_CancerCtr . Grateful for an incredible tram under @benjamesMD ’s mentorship 👨🏫 @BIDMCSurgery
4 new papers in @NEJM from leading health policy experts on 2024 election Sherry Glied & Ben Sommers on the coverage expansions under Biden-Harris that led to the lowest uninsured rate in US history, and the need to extend ACA subsidies and stabilize Medicaid enrollment. 1/5
We found that up to ~15% of cancer survivors experience catastrophic health expenditures (OOP costs > ~40% disposable income) Stark reminder that even seemingly small medical bills can cause financial damage for low-income households authors.elsevier.com/a/1jpk27tCW27G…
Impact from @harvardmed and @BIDMChealth: patient financial burden, catastrophic health expenditures, and the ballooning costs of varying #cancer treatments. bit.ly/47IBoDA Authors: @NishantUppal7, @j_broekhuis, @GomezJorgeMD, @HaoWei95, @natalia__chaves, @benjamesMD
No pay. No work hour limits. Poor teaching. Stolen possessions. These were the conditions that led the first resident physicians to unionize in 1934. Our new paper in @NEJM examines the history of house staff unions and their impact on the profession nejm.org/doi/abs/10.105…