Katherine Majzoub Morgan

The life expectancy of American Indian and Alaska Native individuals is underestimated

From @jama.com: The life expectancy of American Indian and Alaska Native individuals is underestimated due to racial misclassification on death certificates, according to this longitudinal cohort study.

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I will hand deliver YOUR SNAP/Medicare/Medicaid/ or ACA journey to your Senators on Thursday, June 12, BUT I really still NEED stories from Oregon and Wisconsin, but will take any story from any state.

Please share the post below everywhere & anywhere. My DMs are open to everyone until 6/10. TYSM🙏💜

And the amazing @lisarotenstein.bsky.social !

Add me please! Also my colleagues @ishaniganguli.bsky.social @nickdaley.bsky.social @audreydzhang.bsky.social thank you!

Excellent discussion at #ARM25 about how to communicate the value of HSR to elected officials and the public, starting with a suggestion to reframe our work as health care improvement research. Thoughts? Has anyone tried this in the US or elsewhere?

Gender Differences in Physician Earnings and Outcomes Under Medicare Advantage Value-Based Payment This cohort study assesses gender differences in reimbursed earnings and quality among primary care physicians participating in full risk-sharing arrangements with Medicare Advantage plans, which now ...

Women physicians face a persistent gender wage gap, which we've found is due in part to volume-based (FFS, or $/visit) payment models. In a new #JAMAHealthForum study, we find that under Medicare Advantage value-based payment (VBP), the gap reverses (!).
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In its flagship journal, the CDC keeps publishing papers after firing scientists who made the research possible In its flagship journal, the CDC keeps publishing papers after firing scientists who made the research possible.

HHS officials keep saying that work like the lead-in-applesauce team did will continue, but they've all been laid off. What happens now?

“Our team’s gone. People usually pull us in, and then we work with them to figure it out, but they can’t pull us in anymore. They’re on their own.”

Unlike with Medicaid, you can’t enroll in marketplace coverage year-round, meaning people screened out of coverage by these new policies could find themselves locked out of coverage.

“I slipped through the cracks because of new paperwork burdens” isn’t a qualifying life event.

Meeting Announcement For May 21, 2025 The Committee on Rules will meet Wednesday, May 21, 2025 at 1:00 AM ET in H-313, The Capitol on the following emergency measure:H.R. ____ – One Big Beautiful Bill Act

After Budget Committee reports reconciliation bill with draconian #Medicaid cuts after 10pm ET Sunday night, House GOP leadership now has Rules Committee take up bill at 1am ET Wednesday in another attempt to avoid public scrutiny. Floor vote likely later this week: rules.house.gov/media/announ...

#Medicaid is a critical foundation for so much of the U.S. health care system that it is hard to capture its enormous value in words but this is a terrific contribution from @commonwealthfund.org focusing on two of its essential functions: paying for #mentalhealth and #SUD care #medsky

Although many factors contribute to hospital capacity, MA’s shortage of primary care clinicians and chronic underfunding of primary care probably isn’t helping this situation. #medsky

Devastating news from an incredibly brilliant & productive physician-scientist who works on topics critical to improving U.S. health care. Cancelling his grant funding is unjust, shortsighted, and lowers the chances of building a better health care system for the American people. 🇺🇸🩺 #medsky

Wealthy but unhealthy: The American health paradox While Trump addresses our perceived trade gap with other countries, he and his administration might also consider examining America’s international “health gap.”

I had this op-ed published in @thehill.com this week arguing for:

1. Healthy lifestyles, especially exercise
2. Primary care
3. #AHRQ and research funding

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@nuintmed.bsky.social @ipham.bsky.social @nufeinbergmed.bsky.social

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For all the CMS data homies, finally, some action on VRDC.

CMS has reviewed public comment and is asking for more, specific feedback from researchers.

Please take some time to respond to the questions posed here. It looks like CMS really is considering the feedback we all provided the last round.

trying to be creative in difficult times, submit here if a postdoc is a better fit, too- this may be a hard time to start soft-money tenure track...

🚨HRSA's Area Health Resources Files webpage is now down.

Fortunately, I built an archive of data 2000-2023 for a previous project, which can be accessed without restriction here:

data.mendeley.com/datasets/dwf...

Thank you! Just found the dead link yesterday while working on a project and this is a huge relief

Multiple sources tell me AHRQ is about to be destroyed. A terrible loss for our country.

#medsky #episky

#womeninSTEM

Anyone? #academicsky

Pages - Release: One Case of Measles Confirmed in Maryland Resident with Recent International Travel An official website of the State of Maryland.

Working link: health.maryland.gov/newsroom/Pag...

#dogsofbluesky

Tail wags for sunny days in Boston #dogunday #springiscoming #dogsky

Great turnout for #StandUpForScience in #Boston. This city is home to some of the greatest research institutions and hospitals in the world. We will not be silenced.

Exercising the right to peaceably assemble and #StandUpforScience in Boston today

Yes! Hope to see many similar signs at the Boston rally on Friday. #medsky @standupforscience.bsky.social

KFF chart that shows the demographics of subsidy-eligible individual market enrollees with incomes over four times poverty, which are disproportionately early and pre-retirees (ages 50-64), people who are self-employed, and people who live in rural areas.

Who are the ACA Marketplace enrollees who make at least 4 times the federal poverty level and could lose all their tax credits next year?

They are disproportionately small business owners, early or pre-retirees, and residents of rural areas. Our analysis: on.kff.org/4igKE5K

Thrilled to see these highly-qualified authors offering clear recommendations for payment reforms to improve primary care access and quality in the United States 🇺🇸 #medsky