Dan Choi, MD, FAAOS
@drdanchoi
Independent Physician 🇺🇸 • Bring Back Private Practice! • Minimally Invasive Spinal Surgeon • Disc Replacement • Endoscopic • IG: spinedocny
If you truly want a free society, you need independent physicians Bring back private practice and Make American Healthcare Great Again 🇺🇸
Wild story. Link in reply. TL/DR. Biotech is big mad about the new CBER head (@VPrasadMDMPH ) clamping down on iffy novel therapeutics with questionable safety data. They’re attempting to manipulate MAGA with a planted story painting Vinay as a left wing wacko. ( He isn’t)
More on the man destroying @POTUS legacy for helping patients. FDA’s Vinay Prasad Stands with Progressive Health Policies realclearhealth.com/articles/2025/…
Thank you “Affordable” Care Act ACA promoted consolidation, eliminated competition resulting in more expensive and inefficient healthcare Bring back private practice Bring back physician owned hospitals Bring back competition in healthcare
Americans now spend more on health care than groceries or housing, with health care accounting for approximately 20% of household expenditures, according to the New York Times.
a 2025 Health Affairs study showing that 60% of compliance recommendations given to physicians misalign with CMS’s actual regulatory intent. That should stop everyone in their tracks. Because here’s the real problem: as a private practice physician, one of my biggest…
1/I’ve been a bit of broken record here—@UHC denied for months that they were under any investigation of #MedicareAdvantage program but now admits in an official 8K SEC filing that they are under investigation. The case that UHC cites as a win is much…… cnbc.com/2025/07/24/uni…
THREAD: The Nonprofit Touchdown UCLA Health is a state-funded, tax-exempt, nonprofit medical system. So why is it sponsoring an NFL team? Here’s how your healthcare dollars ended up in the Chargers’ locker room: 👇 @UCLAHealth @chargers
What if physicians—not financiers—were the ones funding healthcare innovation? Welcome to the PhyCap Podcast—where healthcare operators fund the future. In this episode, we ask the question too few are willing to confront: Dr. Vipul Kella and Dr. Paul Slosar aren’t just your…
The No Surprises Act was signed into law to eliminate surprise medical billing, but it’s not being enforced as Congress intended. I introduced the bipartisan No Surprises Enforcement Act to crack down on insurers defying the law. We must put American patients first.
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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…
Why is it that in healthcare, an industry built on the principle of "first, do no harm", we have created a system that systematically harms the very people who dedicate their lives to healing others? This is not a rhetorical question. It is, I believe, a puzzle that reveals…
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.
Listen to @drdanchoi discuss headwinds facing the aging boomer generation that expects Medicare to be there for them like it was for their parents. (Around 30’min mark) Medicare physician reimbursement rates have not kept up with inflation, and balance billing is disallowed.…
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…
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…
Doctors face higher-than-average risk for lawsuits. Protecting your hard-earned wealth isn’t just smart - it’s essential. Here’s a breakdown of practical strategies every physician should consider:
In less than one week we have almost hit our goal of $500k. I am grateful beyond words. After telling the truth about insurance and being punished for it, I was scared I was going to lose my practice. Now I feel like I can breathe again, knowing I’ll be able to continue…
Top 5 Physician Takeaways from the CMS 2026 Analysis: 1. “The Writing is on the Wall for Independent Practice” The 0.5% payment differential between APM and non-APM physicians, combined with the 2.5% efficiency cuts, makes it mathematically clear that CMS is systematically…
When reimbursement models punish independence and reward consolidation, the market isn’t failing, it’s being manipulated. These aren’t natural outcomes. They’re engineered.
Top 5 Physician Takeaways from the CMS 2026 Analysis: 1. “The Writing is on the Wall for Independent Practice” The 0.5% payment differential between APM and non-APM physicians, combined with the 2.5% efficiency cuts, makes it mathematically clear that CMS is systematically…
1/ Hi @UHC—since according to this report you employ over 90K physicians & 1000s of other clinicians could we get your advocacy help on the 2026 Medicare fee schedule proposed fee schedule cuts? How about it—partner with physician advocacy organizations? This is an…
15 years ago a the case Physician Hospitals of America v. Sebelius was fought in court. It was to decide if section 6001 that prevents docs from owning hospitals. The doctors were defeated. The court decided that the doctors could not prove that they would be harmed by this…
We did not lose any wars; we surrendered to Obamacare and the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Now we are witnessing the consequences of this failed experiment with socialized medicine. We need @POTUS @realDonaldTrump to instruct the Congressional GOP to repeal Obamacare once again.