Brad Wright

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"The Arnold School played a pivotal role in shaping my professional journey, and I am excited to give back to the institution and state that invested in me." —Joshua Sellner, clinical assistant professor of health services policy and management ow.ly/KwKc50X2PZ8 @uscresearch.bsky.social

Dean Sabo-Attwood delivered a keynote talk at the 2025 Women Leaders in Higher Education Summit, taking place in Johannesburg, South Africa! 📍🇿🇦 September 24 was Heritage Day and participants were dressed in heritage garments. Dr. Sabo-Attwood was able to wear Zulu beads for the event! #ASPHisGlobal

So glad she’s here!

Changes to ACA Individual Insurance Markets After States Leave Healthcare.gov 2016-2023 - David M. Anderson, Sukriti Beniwal, Salpy Kanimian, 2025 To evaluate changes in enrollment, average risk scores, and premiums in the Affordable Care Act individual market after states transitioned from the federally f...

❗❗❗NEW RESEARCH ALERT ❗❗❗

With @beniwalsukriti.bsky.social and @salpykanimian.bsky.social we examine the impact of states converting from Healthcare.Gov to #StateBasedMarketplaces after 2018 in the #ACA

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TLDR: No detectable effects

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🚨 ACADEMIC JOB ALERT!
We are hiring up to 2 tenure-track faculty (assistant/associate). Columbia is a fun, rapidly growing, & very livable city and USC is a great place to work. If you'll be on the market, I encourage you to take a look and consider applying.

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🚨 ACADEMIC JOB ALERT!
Looking for a faculty position that allows you to step into a leadership role & work with great colleagues in a fun, rapidly growing, & very livable city? Take a look at this opportunity & consider applying! I'm happy to chat if interested.

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In Pursuit of a Better Hospital Quality Metric for Medicare url:https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2836927?utm_source=bluesky&utm_campaign=content-shareicons&utm_content=article_engagement&utm_medium=social&utm_term=080225

Concern and credibility: a factorial survey experiment on nurse judgments and intent to report patient-expressed safety events - BMC Nursing Background Hospitalized patients continue to experience preventable harm and safety threats. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the extent to which nurse judgments of credibility and concern (p...

New study w/ Iowa & Washington colleagues evaluated the role of perceived patient credibility & event importance in RNs' decisions to report patient safety concerns. ⬆️ concern & Rx errors = ⬆️ intent to report. RN perception of patient credibility not significant!

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Thousands of SC residents attend ‘No Kings’ Protest South Carolinians from all over the state were on the state house grounds for the ‘No Kings” protest after President Donald Trump’s efforts to use ICE to crack down on immigration enforcement.

Thousands of SC residents attend ‘No Kings’ Protest
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Another video of the car horns honking in support of the #NoKings protest in Columbia, SC today

Columbia, SC.💙💙

What the honking horns sound like here in the Deep South in Columbia, SC, at the #NoKings protest today.

Another terrific Clyburn Lecture in the books this year! Was great to host Dr. Keshia Pollack Porter and hear more about health impact assessments and health in all policies—and always a pleasure to hear from Congressman Clyburn! @repjamesclyburn.bsky.social

DOGE strangling Federally funded research at the source.

Still illegal impoundment! Still unconstitutional! And will need to be stopped, or everything grinds to a halt.

Also my apologies to the guy who created Stargate, aka the REAL @bradwright.bsky.social who was accidentally tagged in this article and probably wonders why @uscarnoldschool.bsky.social follows him! 😅

Legislative battle continues over how to address health care costs in North Carolina The N.C. Senate and House of Representatives differ on how to make health care more affordable and accessible, including prior authorization.

NC Health News asks health services policy and management faculty Dave Anderson and Brad Wright for their expert input on how to make health care more affordable/accessible. ow.ly/BPM050VxREA #ArnoldSchoolExperts @dmaanderson.bsky.social | @bradwright.bsky.social | @nchealthnews.bsky.social

Glad it was helpful!

You’ve got me right, but lead was actually @tgiannouchos.bsky.social

Great postdoc opportunity to work with two outstanding faculty at UMass!

<em>Health Services Research</em> | AcademyHealth & HRET Journal | Wiley Online Library Objective To compare healthcare services utilization across the healthcare system between frequent and non-frequent emergency department (ED) users among Medicaid enrollees in South Carolina. Stud...

Our new study in HSR (led by @tgiannouchos.bsky.social) finds that contrary to the idea that people are frequent ED users b/c they can't access care elsewhere, frequent ED users have higher rates of health care use across the board vs. non-frequent ED users. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Pitch perfect

Go Dawgs. That is all. 🐶

Ugh. I like my natural experiments to not harm people.

The original Twitter magic is back

If this is the Collins I think it is, I’m very troubled / quite concerned / will vote for it anyway

I found a browser plugin that helped me find all my Twitter followers. Very helpful! And I love your handle btw…😂

Silver lining: Bravado & Baggage is a killer band name

Earlier this year, Phil Singer, @bradwrightphd.bsky.social, and I published a piece in JHPPL in which we looked at 1332 waiver activity from 2019 to 2023. We examined how the Trump administration used waivers to try to accomplish some of their #healthpolicy priorities, and how Biden reversed course.

Getting an IV analysis in a clinical journal is hard!

But happy to see this work on the effect on observational stays on clinical and cost outcomes in Medicare published in #JGIM

Kevin Duan @bradwrightphd.bsky.social
Amber Sabbatini
Canada Parrish
& others

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